Literature: history & criticism books

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 >>

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 >>

Daniel Thaly, from Dominica, was once one of France's most celebrated poets. Then in the 1930s, came a descent into...  Read More >>

Where is sexuality, especially queer sexuality, in architecture? The House Is (Not) a Prison approaches this question...  Read More >>

Newly available in paperback, this iconoclastic study draws on affect theory, the history of emotions, and new materialism...  Read More >>

Quixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to British women's professional...  Read More >>

Drawing on literature, legal texts, and archival materials from the Italian Renaissance, The Ambassador and the...  Read More >>

Explore the cultural narratives about whistleblowers that ignite explosions of truth and justice, and the frames...  Read More >>

A guide to reading, writing and appreciating poetry - the fun and easy way. Advice is given on how to polish and...  Read More >>

This seventh collection by acclaimed poet Susan Stewart offers a meditation on difficulty and the powers of nature....  Read More >>

This is the first ever critical edition of Wyndham Lewis's Paleface. It reproduces, with corrections, the text first...  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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Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Not Everything Unfolds as...  Read More >>

What kind of a playwright comes into being when an avant-garde poet moves on to write Christian popular theatre,...  Read More >>

In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony:...  Read More >>

Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition....  Read More >>

This is the only stand-alone edition of Dryden's prose available; it presents texts central to Dryden's career,...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between animals and the rational...  Read More >>

This exploration of The Female Man offers a close reading of the text, focussing on how the book works, its structures,...  Read More >>

Minerva was Britain's most popular and internationally influential Press at the turn of the nineteenth century....  Read More >>