Literature: history & criticism books

Examining a strain of feminine speculative thought that resonates with contemporary efforts to recenter pleasure....  Read More >>

How women wood engravers helped reshape the visual and literary landscape of modern Britain Amid the austerities...  Read More >>

A comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horror Why do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses...  Read More >>

Vignettes by writers engaging with prominent and obscure Midwestern locales How do the stories we tell about Midwestern...  Read More >>

Based on ethnographic observations of more than two hundred hours of Systemic couples therapy and written in an...  Read More >>

'The Sound of the Past' collects nine essays on the topic of Modernism and its relationship to past histories, literatures,...  Read More >>

This volume aims to explore and highlight aspects of the work of Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia. Topics include Sulpicia's...  Read More >>

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Marvel in a Mad mode! The complete 1955 Snafu magazine collected for the first time, featuring satire by John and...  Read More >>

The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos...  Read More >>

The author reflects upon her own creative process, attempting to answer the question, ""Why do you write?""  Read More >>

Explore creative approaches for teaching literature that interlace pressing social issues—climate challenges, political...  Read More >>

A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical...  Read More >>

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An examination of the lives, gardens, writing, and artwork of Southern women who found inspiration and identity...  Read More >>

A final work by one of our major critics, contemplating how acts of distant witnessing can continue in future generations....  Read More >>

Examining a strain of feminine speculative thought that resonates with contemporary efforts to recenter pleasure....  Read More >>

A revelation of the powerful circuit between Black history and modern comics by African American creators  Read More >>

How women wood engravers helped reshape the visual and literary landscape of modern Britain Amid the austerities...  Read More >>

A comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horror Why do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses...  Read More >>

Based on ethnographic observations of more than two hundred hours of Systemic couples therapy and written in an...  Read More >>

This is a collection of seminal papers by the late Michael Frede on an important period in philosophical history,...  Read More >>

In the shadows of Victorian London, Alice Lumsley's life has been a sequence of entrapment and despair. Committed...  Read More >>

The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In this study,...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales.  Read More >>