Literature: history & criticism books

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

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  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 a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

The latest volume in our new Fantagraphics Atlas Creator Collection focuses on the feverishly imaginative Bill Everett's...  Read More >>

An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women's experiences across the African diaspora...  Read More >>

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This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the...  Read More >>

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

Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga examines the relationship between music and literary works within...  Read More >>

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This Open Access book addresses the critical gap in current literacy education by integrating multimodal literacies...  Read More >>

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

This is a wide-ranging account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental...  Read More >>

Investigates the semantic permutations of 'homeness' in post-war diasporic Anglophone Lebanese novels.  Read More >>

Cormorant is the natural and cultural history of a 'greedy' bird that is hated across the world and the object of...  Read More >>

Delving into his biological imagery, Tara Lee shows how Blake articulates radical views about spirituality and embodiment,...  Read More >>

A new electric play, NICE THINGS explores the relationship of a gay couple, in the midst of their comfortable years,...  Read More >>

Thomas Leonard-Roy explores the writings of six canonical authors--Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell,...  Read More >>

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