Literature: history & criticism books

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive overview of Werner Sollors' ground-breaking work on culture and ethnicity.  Read More >>

Argues that Shakespeare's plays are dramaturgically misogynist and that surface-level interventions cannot remediate...  Read More >>

Offers an ecocritical approach to understanding dress in early modern plays and performance  Read More >>

Short, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks's diverse critical work.  Read More >>

Establishes maternity as a vital theme within Virginia Woolf's feminist and political thought  Read More >>

Offers the first full-length study of Cicely Saunders' idea of 'total pain', providing a fresh perspective on the...  Read More >>

A creative and analytical study of important facets of classical Persian poetry.  Read More >>

Shows how the study of modern Arabic literature was transformed by Mustafa Badawi.  Read More >>

Explores developments in Arab autobiography over the last 40 years.  Read More >>

Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the 'nahdah', from the 1700s onwards.  Read More >>

Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel.  Read More >>

Takes a geographical/spatial approach to Beirut to understand how the city is imagined in 16 modern Arabic novels....  Read More >>

Studies a neglected area of postcolonial fiction, fostering a better understanding of Iraqi culture and society....  Read More >>

Provides a nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national'...  Read More >>

Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nationstate, modernity and tradition.  Read More >>

Explores the intricately crafted rhetorical strategies used by al-Jahiz in his letters.  Read More >>

Investigates the semantic permutations of 'homeness' in post-war diasporic Anglophone Lebanese novels.  Read More >>

This book explores short fiction by migrant women writers in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2020, including...  Read More >>

Argues that Victorian literature uses traces of a lingering past to theorise time as non-progressive and discontinuous...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of the essential role Switzerland played in Charles Dickens's imagination  Read More >>

Articulates life writing's complex engagement with the nineteenth-century literary market  Read More >>

A definitive account of newspaper and periodical press history across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales covering...  Read More >>

Part of Amir Kalan's larger Writing in Times of Crisis project, this book offers an innovative arts-based exploration...  Read More >>

Print Passages researches the history of the coming of the printed book in Indonesia and the consequences this new...  Read More >>