Literature: history & criticism books

Step into the frozen heart of the Viking Age and explore a realm where giants, wolves, wyrms, and shadow-born spirits...  Read More >>

Unlock your storytelling potential with ""From First Draft to Final Edit: A Beginner's Guide to Short Story Writing.""...  Read More >>

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Dangerous Creations investigates a previously unidentified genre of nineteenth-century French literature the inventor...  Read More >>

An imaginative dialogue between the sixth-century Byzantine poet and hymnwriter and the sixteenth-century English...  Read More >>

This meditation on the poetics of re-worlding follows the threads of Spiderwoman Theater's Storyweaving practice...  Read More >>

It also covers the religious period, the first literary period in the Deccan when Qutb Shahi poets flourished, the...  Read More >>

Are novelists from Scotland merely contributors to English literature, or is there a separate tradition of the Scottish...  Read More >>

In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made...  Read More >>

The study sheds light on intertwined realms of local textual transmission, the place of manuscript culture in ordinary...  Read More >>

This collection explores how a range of nineteenth-century authors, from their own historically contingent perspectives,...  Read More >>

A poet, scholar, philosopher, religious thinker, translator, and teacher, Viacheslav Ivanov (1866–1949) was one...  Read More >>

In the silence between our breaths Where words are not said Lies the echoes of the truth's unspoken words A whisper...  Read More >>

""A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century"" by Henry A. Beers is a comprehensive examination...  Read More >>

In the maze of emotions, I wander free Where whispers of affection feel like royalty Each verse is a mirror, revealing...  Read More >>

What happens when a curious teenage boy stumbles upon his mother's silk scarf and can't resist trying it on? Jamie...  Read More >>

When a devoted husband tries on his wife's soft satin dress for the first time, he never imagines how real it will...  Read More >>

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Cora and Lane's wedding should have marked a bright beginning. Instead, it is darkened by the shocking murder of...  Read More >>

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This book offers a pioneering study of the national, transnational, and international dimensions of working-class...  Read More >>