Literature: history & criticism books

How the ""Asian girl"" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations...  Read More >>

Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation...  Read More >>

Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement's backdrop, this book examines six African...  Read More >>

HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI:...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf’s beloved classic, with a new foreword.  Read More >>

Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and...  Read More >>

Seventeen ingenious essays devoted to snails’ and aquatic invertebrates’ uncanny ways of living. Mollusks’ innermost...  Read More >>

In recounting the fascinating history of how modern Irish writers politically, socially, and polemically organised...  Read More >>

Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,...  Read More >>

The Baltic regionarguablysawthe birth of horror cinema when Germany produced its cycle of silent horror films. However,it...  Read More >>

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""A blend of inquisitive narrative, philosophy, literary theory, and experimental lyricism""-- Provided by publisher....  Read More >>

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

The volume explores this relationship from biographical, literary, and philosophical perspectives, focusing on the...  Read More >>

Simon Goldhill recounts the untold history of Cambridge's gay academic community and the remarkable impact that...  Read More >>

In this wide-ranging collection of reviews by the writer and critic Al-Shahari, the full flower of Arabic writing...  Read More >>

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

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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 >>

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 >>

Nicholas Jenkins explores war, love, and politics in the early works of W. H. Auden, one of the twentieth century’s...  Read More >>

In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese...  Read More >>