Literature: history & criticism books

This book examines the complex and often turbulent relationship between Scotland and England from the early eighteenth...  Read More >>

Brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, this title delves into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he...  Read More >>

""I've struck it!"" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. ""And I will give it away - to you. You will...  Read More >>

The author of short stories, children's literature, philosophical essays, plays, and The Picture of Dorian Gray,...  Read More >>

Shows how art and literature can both describe and instantiate the slow, unredeemed violence of physical deterioration....  Read More >>

This book develops a new approach to readerly engagement with constellations of characters in the novel. It argues...  Read More >>

This book explores the process, aesthetics, and politics of literary self-translation and transmediation in the...  Read More >>

Takes up the work of artists and theorists who ask what happens when we learn to linger, dwell, live, and work with...  Read More >>

This book examines the role of critical methodology in literacy and language practices. Employing globally diverse...  Read More >>

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A stunning new volume from a poet whose body of work illuminates the ways “language can become a tool for carrying...  Read More >>

Examining the African American and white racial binary in contemporary multiracial literature, Molly Littlewood...  Read More >>

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity....  Read More >>

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Reconsiders major thinkers and works of German Idealism and their legacy for our own restless times.  Read More >>

Investigates permutations of the terror to examine the complex political and intellectual transformation of literary...  Read More >>

The first English translation of Hölderlin's complete correspondence, with a full introduction and notes.  Read More >>

A translation of the 1843 novella by Edgar Bauer, a significant if overlooked work of German literary history that...  Read More >>

Shows how art and literature can both describe and instantiate the slow, unredeemed violence of physical deterioration....  Read More >>

Takes up the work of artists and theorists who ask what happens when we learn to linger, dwell, live, and work with...  Read More >>

This book examines the history of goblins from the Middle Ages to the present. It shows that goblins—whether interpreted...  Read More >>

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