Literature: history & criticism books

King Arthur legends spark enduring debates about leadership, love, and community, weaving medieval texts with modern...  Read More >>

Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthology The Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology—a...  Read More >>

Книга Одри Ву Кларк — это первая монография, посвященная осмыслению канона ранней азиатско-американской литературы...  Read More >>

The intriguing, twisting and heart-warming new novel from the author of Found in a Bookshop and The Second Chance...  Read More >>

A guide to reading, writing and appreciating poetry - the fun and easy way. Advice is given on how to polish and...  Read More >>

In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that ""a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers...  Read More >>

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

Après Les Écrivains voyageurs, l'auteur consacre ce nouvel ouvrage aux voyageuses écrivaines, ces femmes qui, du...  Read More >>

Before the rise of kings and empires, before the first temples crowned the horizon, the ancient world spoke of beings...  Read More >>

Before the rise of kings, before the first cities of stone, before humanity recorded history upon clay and parchment,...  Read More >>

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

Private, previously unpublished conversations between the author and one of the twentieth century's greatest dramatists...  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 >>

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 >>

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

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

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

An examination of early American literature that highlights how racial divides exacerbated—and were exacerbated...  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

This book is the first sustained study of the role and function of dialogue in late medieval and early modern England,...  Read More >>

Книга Одри Ву Кларк — это первая монография, посвященная осмыслению канона ранней азиатско-американской литературы...  Read More >>

Welcome to the ""Chinese HSK Test Level 7-9 Preparation Guide,"" a self-study resource designed for learners ready...  Read More >>

No Place Like Home examines the home through the lens of female writers and thinkers across history, in order to...  Read More >>