Literature: history & criticism books

Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages examines the origins of England's North-South divide, illustrating...  Read More >>

This book is the first monograph to study the rich correspondences between the works of William Shakespeare and...  Read More >>

This is the first book to analyze the interplay of cultural memory, national identity and the changing media ecology...  Read More >>

Focused on conservative writers of the long Restoration, this book reveals a synergistic relationship between postsecularity...  Read More >>

Presenting the text of a notorious Jesuit attack on Queen Elizabeth I’s treatment of her Catholic subjects, this...  Read More >>

Following the historical analysis that focused on the actors and the institutions of book culture in the first volume,...  Read More >>

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This book examines the role played by Latin writing as an instrument of political discourse and propaganda during...  Read More >>

The studies presented in this book examine the theatrical works of Alphonse Daudet, which are somewhat forgotten...  Read More >>

Because European theatre from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries appealed to characters, each of whom was...  Read More >>

Cet ouvrage est un hommage à Sophie Scholl, courageuse jeune femme qui paya de sa vie sa farouche opposition à Hitler....  Read More >>

Demonstrating how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments, this book also explores...  Read More >>

This Element traces the evolution of cars from horsecars, carriages, and bicycles, and the influence of Henry Ford...  Read More >>

It was thirty years after her writing debut that the first work taking detailed notice of the theological language...  Read More >>

Der Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse einer Tagung zur Rezeption Christian Knorr von Rosenroths im Pietismus. In...  Read More >>

""An interdisciplinary analysis of how aesthetic and religious discourses function in dialogue in the work of Gerard...  Read More >>

This book shows that traditional forms played a vital role in shaping mature women poets’ responses to modernity,...  Read More >>

Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman,...  Read More >>

Les premiers écrits de Flaubert, comme ses inépuisables manuscrits, offrent un corpus précieux à explorer afin de...  Read More >>

""An exploration of representations of social precarity in German literature and culture from the 19th to 21st centuries""--...  Read More >>

The first collection to show the full range of ways in which the Bible was mediated through both popular and elite...  Read More >>

""Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century public...  Read More >>

""A pioneering work in cognitive versification studies, scrutinizing the rhythmical means of free verse""--  Read More >>