Literature: history & criticism books

A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels  Read More >>

Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance...  Read More >>

A writer-activist explores the hidden dynamics between planet, politics, and stories as literature bears witness...  Read More >>

Provides both scholars and interested readers the context necessary to understand how Allen Ginsberg's life and...  Read More >>

From its recurring appearances in Gothic poetry and prose to the menacing images of Fuseli and Blake, Orianne Smith...  Read More >>

This book considers the significance of the filial relationship to the graphic narrative oeuvres of Art Spiegelman...  Read More >>

Reading with Jane Austen rereads Austen's novels within the context of the rich Georgian literary culture that she...  Read More >>

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Attends to the early modern stage as a platform for the creation and interrogation of knowledge and knowledge production,...  Read More >>

Examines the transformative power of repetition in contemporary poetic practices.  Read More >>

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>

Exploring Edith Wharton's engagement with global issues in her life and writing Hailed for her remarkable social...  Read More >>

Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book...  Read More >>

The Weather and the Words depicts the poet John Newlove's life. Newlove's letters are a record not just of one person's...  Read More >>

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Die Einführung behandelt die von den vier augusteischen Dichtern Gallus, Tibull, Properz und Ovid gewählte Sonderform...  Read More >>

Der römische Dichter Martial, Klassiker des antiken Epigramms, wurde bis in die 1980er Jahre nicht literaturwissenschaftlich...  Read More >>

Die griechischen Romane des Chariton, Xenophon von Ephesos, Achilleus Tatios, Longos und Heliodor sowie die römischen...  Read More >>

Im Gegensatz zu den Neuphilologien zeigte die Altphilologie bis in die jüngste Zeit wenig Interesse an den griechischen...  Read More >>

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning offers a bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin's groundbreaking...  Read More >>

Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain...  Read More >>

Examining a range of Chinese Canadian literature, this book incorporates elements of the author's own family story-her...  Read More >>

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  Read More >>