Literature: history & criticism books

A tender, funny, probing new play by renowned American playwright Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play)...  Read More >>

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Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the...  Read More >>

Combining sound studies and contemporary philosophy, this study reveals the ethical potency of the sound of the...  Read More >>

Drawing on archival, published, and literary sources, Dayton Lekner tells the story of the Hundred Flowers campaign...  Read More >>

Exploring Romantic-period works as open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts,...  Read More >>

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

В своей книге Гейл Роджерс реконструирует межкультурные связи двух ключевых модернистских движений — британского...  Read More >>

This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis, the first adaptor of Hamlet...  Read More >>

Suddenly, A Man depicts the radical perspective of Azriel Pierce, a trans neutral author wedged between the cisbinary...  Read More >>

""Film Tamasha (Literary Essays)"" is a compelling collection of twelve insightful and critical essays exploring...  Read More >>

Volume 38 of a continuing academic journal dedicated to research in the field of early drama and theatrical studies....  Read More >>

Dante's Divine Comedy is one of those classics more often cited than read. This is a shame because, in addition...  Read More >>

Authors C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien have captured the imagination of millions of readers across languages and...  Read More >>

Examines Ovid’s Amores through a comics-based methodology to demonstrate how Latin elegy uses its segmented format...  Read More >>

A survey of indigenous Judaism in colonial Algeria from a Halachic perspective, looking at the transition from Muslim-Ottoman...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of fictions of radical life extension, this book recovers a major but as-yet unrecognized...  Read More >>

Offering a new introduction to an important yet overlooked group of 20th century American poets, this book re-examines...  Read More >>

This collection demonstrates how to achieve more comprehensive scholarship on J. R. R. Tolkien, connecting Tolkien...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Senses explores how audiences of Shakespeare’s time would have understood the sensual world...  Read More >>