Literature: history & criticism books

An outrageously witty tragicomedy-of-manners about a queer black teenager coming of age, introduced by Mendez, author...  Read More >>

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that ""a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers...  Read More >>

In her struggle to cope with an uncertain world - a world where nothing seemed to make sense any more - she pushed...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

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This volume offers new perspectives on Emerson in relation to his contemporary moment; his religious and spiritual...  Read More >>

The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection...  Read More >>

Jackie Kay: Critical Essays offers the first full-length critical study of Jackie Kay’s work. It brings together...  Read More >>

This book assesses the life and works of leading Zimbabwean poet and novelist, Chenjerai Hove. Proposing a reading...  Read More >>

Contemporary Literary Perspectives on Female Ageing: Insights from Erica Jong offers a nuanced study of contemporary...  Read More >>

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A darkly comic and celebrated new play that offers a fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, cults... and...  Read More >>

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

From one of our most distinguished literary voices, a defining essay collection blending personal reflection with...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

A bold, intimate debut novel that follows a young Moroccan woman's flight from shame to self-reclamation. For...  Read More >>

A gripping historical novel that explores how the Fourth Crusade plundered Constantinople and forever changed the...  Read More >>

A gripping family mystery that reveals how hidden pasts shape our present and transform our future. Bohdana is...  Read More >>

A collection of poems that explores transformation, dissolution, and renewal—and how language itself can become...  Read More >>

This volume offers new perspectives on Emerson in relation to his contemporary moment; his religious and spiritual...  Read More >>

The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection...  Read More >>

This volume illustrates Asian speculative fiction's potential to interrogate and inspire humanity's ecological and...  Read More >>