Literature: history & criticism books

This gripping history offers a unique understanding of the pervasive influence of nationalism in both politics and...  Read More >>

The first text, translation and commentary of an unpublished 18th-century Latin didactic poem about the Brazilian...  Read More >>

A tender and darkly comic play about family, illness, and cowboys — and how to remain standing when everything you...  Read More >>

Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized...  Read More >>

From the author of dying in the scarecrow's arms, new poems powered by the twin musical engines of punk and Hip-Hop....  Read More >>

The National Book Award-winning writer’s intimate exploration of how fact is transformed into fiction  Read More >>

From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience...  Read More >>

Combining unsettling imagery with inventive form, this powerful collection explores the inner struggle to resist...  Read More >>

Available for the first time in paperback, ""The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara"" reflects the poet's growth as...  Read More >>

This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

A collection of colourful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five...  Read More >>

An intimate archive emptied and overwritten by a fear of words, a book of mingled fates The poems of Our Prediction...  Read More >>

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

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C'est à Paris que l'écrivain Pierre Herbart (1903-1974), s'est formé professionnellement. Revenu d'un voyage au...  Read More >>

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

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

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story...  Read More >>