Literature: history & criticism books

A new play from playwright Sarah Power (Grud) about what we owe each other when the past demands a reckoning.  Read More >>

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor...  Read More >>

Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition...  Read More >>

This book offers a reading of Montaigne's Essais through the prism of visual art, chiefly the notion of 'design'...  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

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Based on two decades of original research and exclusive access to unpublished material, a ground-breaking biography...  Read More >>

A rigorous exploration of literature as a tool for social change, revealing how gender and national identity intertwine...  Read More >>

A one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter, the fictional character with many lives in literature, film, and...  Read More >>

By providing the first comprehensive study of the culturally and historically significant field of American gay...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues, Yin Dao Du Bai, Yin Dao Zhi Dao, and...  Read More >>

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

""An account of the endangerment and survival of utopian fiction in the 21st century, and how they can provide a...  Read More >>

Tangential Terrains is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions...  Read More >>

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This book is a study of the impact of nineteenth-century popular literature on its contemporary society as well...  Read More >>

A clear, accessible guide for Years 9-10, simplifying key quotes, themes, context and tragic form. Features an Act-by-Act...  Read More >>

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

An intriguing investigation of how aging, place, and care intersect in the newly emerging genre of the care home...  Read More >>

Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy...  Read More >>

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

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How Shakespeare's exploration of central human questions about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong...  Read More >>

The essays in Mezukak Shivatayim pay tribute to Bernard Septimus’s writing and teaching, covering rabbinic culture,...  Read More >>