Literature: history & criticism books

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 >>

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The remarkable tale of how queer bookshops built communities, nourished minds, redefined literature – and changed...  Read More >>

Examines the newly-discovered diary of Jane Ewbank as a vital site of knowledge-making, illuminating women's intellectual...  Read More >>

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

Essays exploring the intersections of politics and theory through medievalism in film, literature, gaming, and political...  Read More >>

This volume compiles critical essays that explore the evolution of progressive poetry in India from the 1920s onwards....  Read More >>

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A bilingual collection of exquisite poems and prose by one of Fernando Pessoa’s most famous “heteronyms”, Ricardo...  Read More >>

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

Surreal and dreamlike poems that chronicle the pleasures, pains, and anxieties of life. John Cross's WHAT BLEAK...  Read More >>

A poetry collection that embraces the absurd and mysterious. LM Rivera's THE BOOK OF THE RED ABSURD is a poetic...  Read More >>

A bold and tender portrait of family, identity, and truth in the North Bronx. Through narrative poems and innovative...  Read More >>

This book considers the motives, and ambitions of writing architectural history during the 1900s. In reference to...  Read More >>

Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it...  Read More >>

Part detective mystery, part historical fiction, The Enchanted Clock is a philosophically and linguistically multifaceted...  Read More >>

Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries...  Read More >>

The best poetry and prose from the past quarter century of The Pushcart Prize editions selected by two multi-prize-winning...  Read More >>

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates...  Read More >>

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Places Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world and investigates...  Read More >>

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>