Literature: history & criticism books

Rediscover the rich legacy of Richard Aldington (1892–1962), a notable British man of letters. A prominent editor,...  Read More >>

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Phoenissae is probably Seneca's final play, a work of great dramatic, poetic, and intellectual force, permeated...  Read More >>

This accessible and insightful volume features chapters from diverse contributors exploring multiple aspects of...  Read More >>

Cold War Negritude reconsiders French Caribbean literature in the context of the global Cold War, examining the...  Read More >>

Cutting across academic boundaries, this volume brings together scholars from different disciplines who have explored...  Read More >>

Grounded in a fine-grained analysis of contemporary Indian fiction, Beyond Alterity argues that the logic of neoliberal...  Read More >>

A delightful, thoughtful and original new way to understand England's history This is the history of England told...  Read More >>

""Over fifty essays about California literature today, written by the host of Alta Journal's California Book Club""--...  Read More >>

Questioning the principal distinction between literary modernism and other genres/movements/styles, authors read...  Read More >>

The first book-length study focusing on Robert Lowell’s career-long preoccupation with the liberal mode of translational...  Read More >>

Places Nietzsche's thought in conversation with the Africana tradition to explore the role of aesthetics in decolonial...  Read More >>

An interpretation of the deeper meaning of a set of anti-authoritarianism works that graphically depict torture,...  Read More >>

This book is the first scholarly, annotated edition of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's only French novella, Le Pasteur...  Read More >>

This concise new book, the first on Lynn Linton since 1987, considers the author's oeuvre, placing its subject in...  Read More >>

ENGThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly...  Read More >>

Indispensable for students and scholars of Latin literature, ancient rhetoric, and Roman law, this new critical...  Read More >>

A comprehensive, up-to-date and unique reference-tool in six volumes, gathering nearly 1500 Latin texts on papyrus....  Read More >>

A comprehensive, up-to-date and unique reference-tool in six volumes, gathering nearly 1500 Latin texts on papyrus....  Read More >>

""Over fifty essays about California literature today, written by the host of Alta Journal's California Book Club""--Provided...  Read More >>

In the infinite expanse between a heartbeat and a supernova, where logic dances with wonder, this book of sci-fi...  Read More >>

In the infinite expanse between a heartbeat and a supernova, where logic dances with wonder, this book of sci-fi...  Read More >>

New essays on early Greek natural philosopher Parmenides, who is perhaps the originator of metaphysics.  Read More >>