Literature: history & criticism books

A bilingual collection of exquisite poems and prose by one of Fernando Pessoa’s most famous “heteronyms”, Ricardo...  Read More >>

Contesting Translation honors Professor Mona Baker with eleven chapters exploring translation across contexts and...  Read More >>

Combining extensive research into sexual violence with the author's personal experiences as a feminist activist,...  Read More >>

This book presents a fresh approach to the writing of legal history as an essentially textual enterprise. It argues...  Read More >>

This book explores teaching strategies for incorporating young adult literature as a tool for developing identity,...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking collection gathers essays, poems, and hybrid...  Read More >>

A historical sociopolitical analysis of working-class women's writing.  Read More >>

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This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

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This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the...  Read More >>

This book analyzes contemporary Anglophone road narratives from a transcultural perspective. By bringing together...  Read More >>

Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles...  Read More >>

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

The iconic Renaissance songbook–an inspiration to love poets since the fourteenth century–in an elegant, fluid and...  Read More >>

This book explores teaching strategies for incorporating young adult literature as a tool for developing identity,...  Read More >>

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

Red Missionaries explores the communication strategies of French and German Socialist parties during the inter-war...  Read More >>

An intimate archive emptied and overwritten by a fear of words, a book of mingled fates The poems of Our Prediction...  Read More >>

An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

Since its founding, the United States has colonized more than five hundred Indigenous nations in North America and...  Read More >>

Can revolution unfold in chapters? Seriality has long shaped how we read, think, and act; Peter Hitchcock explores...  Read More >>

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