Literature: history & criticism books

""Reading as Method provides a systematic account of the most influential reading methods in literary studies, demonstrated...  Read More >>

This revelatory biography of Robert Graves re-examines his position as a major First World War poet, as well as...  Read More >>

Examines contemporary African American artistic production through the lens of Coates's groundbreaking entry into...  Read More >>

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One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

This book examines the fictional category of thriller through the lens of city life using exegetical tools drawn...  Read More >>

An essential collection of the nineteenth-century’s most popular Swahili poet working in his foundational mashairi...  Read More >>

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  Read More >>

""Marianne Tarcov argues that early 20th century Japanese lyric poetry was able to serve as a mode of political...  Read More >>

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

Literatur lebt in ihren Geschichten von Grenzgängern, Eigenbrötlern, Nonkonformisten und Sonderlingen. Das Heraustreten...  Read More >>

An immersive adventure story set during the American Civil War follows four travelers as they escape toward the...  Read More >>

This edited book examines three main understandings of the concept of modernity in relation to translation: “modernity...  Read More >>

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on...  Read More >>

A propulsive and lyrical version of ancient Mesopotamia’s greatest adventure–tale, by the bestselling translator...  Read More >>

Examines contemporary African American artistic production through the lens of Coates's groundbreaking entry into...  Read More >>

An engaging biographical introduction to Sigmund Freud, contextualizing his theoretical development within the vibrant...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarch’s 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic...  Read More >>

An introduction to Terence’s Eunuchus, a dramaturgically complex play addressing questions of behaviour still relevant...  Read More >>

An edition, with translation and commentary, of the transatlantic Latin poetry of Christian Wedsted (1727-1757)....  Read More >>

A masterwork of poetic urban observation, The Stroller of Paris is Léon-Paul Fargue’s luminous love letter to the...  Read More >>

Queer Psychoanalysis offers a detailed study of the tensions and contiguities between the field of queer theory...  Read More >>

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One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>