Literature: history & criticism books

This book argues that thought experiments in literature demonstrate how fears and hopes around automation may have...  Read More >>

This book presents a synthesised framework for analysing archival poetics in multimodal literature, examining case...  Read More >>

This book argues that the history of 19th-century German philosophy has neglected a crucial narrative: the philosophy...  Read More >>

The Professor's House (1925) depicts the mid-life crisis of Godfrey St. Peter, a history professor at a midwestern...  Read More >>

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When love leaves, the heart doesn't listen. This collection is a portrait of heartbreak-of holding on when you...  Read More >>

In twenty-five chapters by leading scholars, this volume propagates a nuanced understanding of Byzantine ""literature"",...  Read More >>

The Voynich Manuscript: Secrets of the Enigmatic Codex explores one of the most mysterious and undeciphered books...  Read More >>

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This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy.  Read More >>

Depuis des siècles, les contes et légendes perses ont fasciné et inspiré le monde entier. Transmis de génération...  Read More >>

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Spanning more than half a century, Russell Hoban's celebrated literary career won him critical accolades and legions...  Read More >>

This book argues that the songs on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding are deeply concerned with the fractures in collective...  Read More >>

The tender memoir of a writing life from the bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events.  Read More >>

Clare Pollard cocks a snook at Dr Johnson’s all-male Lives of the Poets in chronicling her own life and theirs in...  Read More >>

When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to...  Read More >>

Yosefa Raz reveals surprising entanglements between scholarly and poetic traditions in the project of reinventing...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing an...  Read More >>

This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet neglected terrain? between...  Read More >>

A funeral speech was delivered almost every year in classical Athens. Forty years ago, Loraux showed how important...  Read More >>

This book redefines the non-Western roots of world literature. A humanist imagination negotiated the struggles of...  Read More >>