Literature: history & criticism books

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A darkly comic and celebrated new play that offers a fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, cults... and...  Read More >>

In her struggle to cope with an uncertain world - a world where nothing seemed to make sense any more - she pushed...  Read More >>

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

A bold, intimate debut novel that follows a young Moroccan woman's flight from shame to self-reclamation. For...  Read More >>

A gripping family mystery that reveals how hidden pasts shape our present and transform our future. Bohdana is...  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 >>

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

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

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This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

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A collection of poems that explores transformation, dissolution, and renewal—and how language itself can become...  Read More >>

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

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

First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected...  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 >>

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 >>