Literature: history & criticism books

Explores the emphasis that contemporary novels, films and television series place on the present, arguing that hope...  Read More >>

Explores influential historical fictions about the Holocaust that deploy narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman...  Read More >>

This fresh biography of Ian Fleming presents an illuminating portrayal of the iconic creator of James Bond. Oliver...  Read More >>

This innovative study asks how genocide can be witnessed through imaginative literature and affect readers who were...  Read More >>

This Student Edition of Shelagh Delaney's 1958 plays offers a contemporary lens on the play and its then-radical...  Read More >>

A new collection of original monologues, duologues and scenes for young actors aged 7 to 16, written specifically...  Read More >>

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The Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for...  Read More >>

Translation practice, its specialized contexts, and its ethical and political aspects, too often studied separately,...  Read More >>

Adding to Coleridge's already substantial role as a multifaceted intellectual of the Romantic period, Ann Colley...  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between aesthetic innovation in poetry and resistance to political and cultural domination...  Read More >>

The Hustling and Bustling World《红尘滚滚的世界》系中国著名作家、世界华文微型小说研究会会长凌鼎年近年创作的一部微型小说集子。由澳大利亚资深翻译家郑苏苏翻译。集子分七个小辑： 1、疫情如镜...  Read More >>

Volume 1 of the first translation of the Latin literary review Alaudae, compiled by pioneer sexologist, Karl Heinrich...  Read More >>

For the first time, more than just a handful of readers will be able to study, enjoy and become acquainted with...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Minds: The Titus Sessions reimagines Titus Andronicus-Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy-through the...  Read More >>

The first critical study of teenage identity that explores the unstable temporal division between adolescence...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical re-evaluation of British fiction of the 1920s, this book examines writers from Virginia...  Read More >>

Explores the work of four Indian writers to enrich our understanding of translation and multilingualism in Francophone...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of the career of Shakespearean ‘star’ actor and theatrical impresario, Richard Burbage....  Read More >>

The first dedicated performance history of Samuel Beckett’s drama in London theatres from 1955 to 2022.  Read More >>

This book offers radical new insights into the relation between realism, feminism and gender identities in contemporary...  Read More >>

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Spanning the period from Zola's epic Germinal to his intervention in the Dreyfus Affair, Zola's Dream paints a new...  Read More >>

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Vine provides the first dedicated account of the literary and intellectual lives of the merchants of 17th-century...  Read More >>