Literature: history & criticism books

The first study of creative and cultural afterlives of Gulliver’s Travels produced over the past 3 centuries that...  Read More >>

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

In this first-ever account of the broadsheet ballads sold outside playhouses, Tiffany Stern reveals how ballads...  Read More >>

A long-overdue reappraisal of a groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms...  Read More >>

Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long...  Read More >>

Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing...  Read More >>

As one among few studies of Indian Ocean literature, this book will benefit scholars and students in humanistic...  Read More >>

Demonstrates William James's role in the history of Anglo-American literary production and the practice of literary...  Read More >>

Professors, high school teachers, novelists, anti-censorship advocates, and librarians confront and examine the...  Read More >>

Offers literary histories and analyses of different genres in African literature and verbal arts. The genres covered...  Read More >>

Examining three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book looks at how they engage...  Read More >>

Before gothic villains stalked industrialising Britain, spectres were haunting British plantations in the 'New World'....  Read More >>

Will appeal to scholars, students, and general audiences interested in American history, religion, and reform before...  Read More >>

Academic discourse on eyes has focused overwhelmingly on their visual function. Weeping Eyes turns instead to their...  Read More >>

Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary...  Read More >>

What was the role of insects in defining the human during the British eighteenth century? Through close ecocritical...  Read More >>

Presents authoritative, annotated versions of major stories and essays from three late eighteenth-century American...  Read More >>

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First published in 1978, Beckett examines the plays of Beckett in the order in which they were written. The book...  Read More >>

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The world in the 1970s was a cultural upheaval in many respects. This novel is a story of the deepest disruption...  Read More >>

What exactly is Bhagavat Gita? Bhagawan Krishna delivered a long and learned speech to Arjuna, the ace, incomparable...  Read More >>

Welcome to the thrilling world of ""Difficult Level Chinese Character Brain Games,"" a book crafted especially for...  Read More >>

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the wayour lives are shaped...  Read More >>