Literature: history & criticism books

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

Illuminates Bantock's experimentation with musical structure to create effective representations of literature,...  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 >>

This book takes a literary geographical approach to the study of folklore, exploring the complex relationships between...  Read More >>

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How did Ottoman individuals and objects interact within the wider nineteenth-century world? The eleven essays from...  Read More >>

Unearthing the ethical entanglements of early children's books with the Atlantic slave economy. What ethical lessons...  Read More >>

Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking study examines how Carroll's Victorian masterpieces and six major screen adaptations (1966-2016)...  Read More >>

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

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

A poetic journey through five decades of Karnataka's history, this collection brings K. S. Nisar Ahmed's timeless...  Read More >>

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Robert M. Adams's translation, which renders French intent in English...  Read More >>

La pensée de Dostoïevski a joué un rôle essentiel de charnière entre la philosophie rationaliste héritée de Descartes...  Read More >>

In a world that often feels chaotic and devoid of inherent meaning, Optimistic Absurdism emerges as a beacon of...  Read More >>

This book examines Alexander Pope’s Dunciad, focusing on the role played by cultural periphery (what Pope called...  Read More >>

What Love's Labor's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Deeply witty, attuned to the quotidian, these are necessary poems alive to the awareness of our mortality.  Read More >>

The highly anticipated sequel to BOOKWORM about how books of all kinds delight, guide, comfort and strengthen us...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues, Yin Dao Du Bai, Yin Dao Zhi Dao, and...  Read More >>

Published for the first time, John Berger and Susan Sontag's collaboration and correspondence across a quarter-century...  Read More >>