Literature: history & criticism books

This Element explores the relationship between creativity, poetry, and cognition through the lenses of cognitive...  Read More >>

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'If I be waspish, best beware my sting'  Read More >>

An immersive account of William Shakespeare’s life and legacy presented in a lavishly illustrated journal-style...  Read More >>

This Element argues that movement, overseen by a movement director, is vital for theatre-making. It can support...  Read More >>

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A posthumous collection of beloved and never-before-read stories from a titan of contemporary Southern fiction  Read More >>

Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book...  Read More >>

Dana Gioia’s characters and verses cry from the depths, their faith tried—and purified—in the furnace of doubt....  Read More >>

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to...  Read More >>

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Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

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Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, J. T....  Read More >>

This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

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An exploration of Stephen King's writing from the first academic granted full access to King's archives.  Read More >>

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to...  Read More >>

An exploration of how comics illuminate medicine, religion, and identity  Read More >>