Literature: history & criticism books

The final volume of Julia Kristeva’s trilogy on “female genius,” Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work...  Read More >>

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The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  Read More >>

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition...  Read More >>

An instant cult classic that remains deeply relevant today: both an incisive and funny travelogue and a revealing...  Read More >>

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The Delirium Archive is a world premiere by Shane Mac an Bhaird. It is about family, and the intangible love technology...  Read More >>

I want to know what happened to Icarus after his wings melted away, when he fell into the fathomless sea. This...  Read More >>

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The GACE 348 Literacy Specialist Exam book is a comprehensive resource designed to help candidates prepare effectively...  Read More >>

What made Mark Twain the voice of a restless, rapidly changing America? How did a Missouri mischief-maker spin tall...  Read More >>

El tema del diálogo es un elemento clave tanto en la poética de Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000) -quien siempre abogó...  Read More >>

Ti sei mai chiesto cosa si nasconde davvero dietro i grandi classici della letteratura americana? Dietro pagine...  Read More >>

A literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil...  Read More >>

A Protestant Air focuses on the Protestant connection linking three intellectual giants of twentieth-century French...  Read More >>

""A collection of interrelated essays exploring Adorno's nuanced thinking on both the value and the danger of recuperating...  Read More >>

Trees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification...  Read More >>

When one thinks about medieval animals, snails rarely come to mind. Just as history has long had its biases, so...  Read More >>

Herzen's Letters offers readers a biographical narrative based on translated and annotated correspondence written...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical Greece Long before Freud, dreams and how to make...  Read More >>

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""This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Focusing on the poetry and poetics of four pivotal authors, this book examines how experimental approaches to poetic...  Read More >>

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings,...  Read More >>

An exploration of the relationships between American rurality, conceptions of wellness and civic “fitness,” and...  Read More >>