Literature: history & criticism books

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and...  Read More >>

Henry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional...  Read More >>

Henry James is a highly readable commentator on the theatre and performance practices of his time. Readers of this...  Read More >>

This book shows how novels and films set in the near future can shed light both on our failures of imagination before...  Read More >>

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

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Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the...  Read More >>

Dante's Divine Comedy is one of those classics more often cited than read. This is a shame because, in addition...  Read More >>

Akhbaar ki BaateiN (Tales from the Press) is a compelling anthology of nine literary essays exploring the world...  Read More >>

A journey of discovery as the author, Matthew Mills Stevenson, affectionately known as the Cycling Historian, investigates...  Read More >>

Petit-fils du patriarche Oula Kouiyéhi, l'illustre ancêtre de l'histoire de la fondation de Bangolo, Doué Pascal,...  Read More >>

ଭାଗବତ ହେଉଛି ଭାବର ବିଷୟ । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାବେ ଏପରି କୌଣସି ବ୍ୟକ୍ତି ନାହିଁ ଯେ ଭାଗବତ ବିଷୟରେ ଜାଣିନାହିଁ । ଶିକ୍ଷିତ ଅଶିକ୍ଷିତ ନିର୍ବିଶେଷରେ...  Read More >>

Authors C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien have captured the imagination of millions of readers across languages and...  Read More >>

Untertitel: Anbei - Vokabelhilfen, Übungsaufgaben, Background Information. Der Autor geht von seinen langjährigen...  Read More >>

This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912,...  Read More >>

This book reveals how modernist artists across Europe and the United States turned to trees and wooden materials...  Read More >>

A tender, funny, probing new play by renowned American playwright Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play)...  Read More >>

A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet examines the lives and sacrifices of his foremothers in his most personal collection...  Read More >>

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How Shakespeare's exploration of central human questions-about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong-explains...  Read More >>

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>