Literature: history & criticism books

Simon Goldhill recounts the untold history of Cambridge's gay academic community and the remarkable impact that...  Read More >>

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  Read More >>

""Marianne Tarcov argues that early 20th century Japanese lyric poetry was able to serve as a mode of political...  Read More >>

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

Literatur lebt in ihren Geschichten von Grenzgängern, Eigenbrötlern, Nonkonformisten und Sonderlingen. Das Heraustreten...  Read More >>

An immersive adventure story set during the American Civil War follows four travelers as they escape toward the...  Read More >>

This edited book examines three main understandings of the concept of modernity in relation to translation: “modernity...  Read More >>

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on...  Read More >>

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A propulsive and lyrical version of ancient Mesopotamia’s greatest adventure–tale, by the bestselling translator...  Read More >>

Examines contemporary African American artistic production through the lens of Coates's groundbreaking entry into...  Read More >>

An engaging biographical introduction to Sigmund Freud, contextualizing his theoretical development within the vibrant...  Read More >>

Queer Psychoanalysis offers a detailed study of the tensions and contiguities between the field of queer theory...  Read More >>

Illuminates Bantock's experimentation with musical structure to create effective representations of literature,...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarch’s 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic...  Read More >>

An introduction to Terence’s Eunuchus, a dramaturgically complex play addressing questions of behaviour still relevant...  Read More >>

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  Read More >>

""Marianne Tarcov argues that early 20th century Japanese lyric poetry was able to serve as a mode of political...  Read More >>

This book takes a literary geographical approach to the study of folklore, exploring the complex relationships between...  Read More >>

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How did Ottoman individuals and objects interact within the wider nineteenth-century world? The eleven essays from...  Read More >>

Unearthing the ethical entanglements of early children's books with the Atlantic slave economy. What ethical lessons...  Read More >>