Literature: history & criticism books

This book engages with literature’s multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of ill mental health....  Read More >>

""A powerful meditation on the present as a space where the past and a still-possible utopia collide""--  Read More >>

A timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy. Since...  Read More >>

Classical reception implies a parenthetical relationship where Antiquity appears to be inserted into while remaining...  Read More >>

This monograph treats modes of fictionality in contemporary auto/biography, memoir and autofiction. Within the...  Read More >>

The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies is concerned with the ways in which literary...  Read More >>

In the first decades of the twenty-first century, science fiction literature has been transformed in many ways,...  Read More >>

The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts contain early versions of six episodes later included...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their...  Read More >>

John Gay (1685-1732) was one of the major figures of the Augustan period. Today, he is largely unread apart from...  Read More >>

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For Anyone Who Knows The Weight Of Smiling Through The Pain.  Read More >>

Rod and Ricky are inseparable ten-year-old best friends growing up in a peaceful suburban neighborhood. Full of...  Read More >>

In this monumental contribution to Old English philology, Geoffrey Russom integrates important discoveries about...  Read More >>

Deep in the Wildwood Forest lives a light hearted creature full of wonder. Mousey uses his courage and compassion...  Read More >>

Discover the Extraordinary Journey of Hermann Hesse: Literature's Master of the Inner QuestStep into the captivating...  Read More >>

Dans Figures contemporaines, Bernard Lazare dresse des portraits incisifs de personnalités littéraires, politiques...  Read More >>

Constructed Latinx(s) Identities: Racialized Bodies in Visual and Textual Culture consists of ten interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Mind of Steel is a powerful coming-of-age story set in Cairo in the mid-20th century. It follows Muhammad, a boy...  Read More >>

From the dawn of civilization to the modern era, experience the captivating saga of America in *America's Story:...  Read More >>

Martin M. Winkler's research in ""The Roman Salute"" confirms Professor Dr. Rex Curry's discoveries, including how...  Read More >>

L'opera di Kafka si presta a numerose interpretazioni: teologica, ebraica, marxista, sociologica, freudiana. L'Autore...  Read More >>

Lee Child tells the stories behind the stories from the bestselling Jack Reacher novels. Includes a new, never-before-seen...  Read More >>

This Handbook puts Wilde the Icon into an expansive literary, cultural, and dramatic context. Its thirty-six contributors...  Read More >>

This Handbook explores authorship in Shakespeare studies. The four parts study notions of early modern authorship...  Read More >>