Literature: history & criticism books

Inspired by Robert Macfarlane and curated by Jennie Orchard, an anthology of essays about the joys of giving books...  Read More >>

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Between 1946 and 1955 Isaac Bashevis Singer underwent a total transformation. During the post-Holocaust period Singer...  Read More >>

Science fiction represents a diverse community of writers and readers that spans the entire world. This collection...  Read More >>

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More than a decade after its first definitions, critical posthumanism has become consolidated as a key discourse...  Read More >>

Ellen Tucker Emerson and Edith Emerson Forbes, the daughters of Lidian Jackson and Ralph Waldo Emerson, grew up...  Read More >>

Journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women’s rights advocate, Margaret Fuller was America’s first major female...  Read More >>

Bringing together eighteen essays from Homa Katouzian, this book explores Iranian history, politics, culture, and...  Read More >>

This volume explores the literary and political culture of the medieval Welsh Marches, with particular focus on...  Read More >>

In den Schriften Xenophons spielen Entscheidungen und damit zusammenhängend die richtige Ausübung von Herrschaft...  Read More >>

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""The first biography of Thom Gunn, a poet who could ""give the dead a voice, make them sing"" (Hilton Als, The...  Read More >>

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare combines literary criticism, performance studies, psychiatric literature,...  Read More >>

An individually researched study, with abundant new material, of the social transmission and adaptation of poetry...  Read More >>

This is the first book to focus on writing by black British women writers, using an approach that highlights the...  Read More >>

More than a century after his death in 1910, Mark Twain remains a lightning rod for controversy. Especially in matters...  Read More >>

Between 1946 and 1955 Isaac Bashevis Singer underwent a total transformation. During the post-Holocaust period Singer...  Read More >>

How Genre Governs Creation in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas applies theoretical observations on the workings of genre...  Read More >>

""An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who...  Read More >>

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Journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women’s rights advocate, Margaret Fuller was America’s first major female...  Read More >>

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