Literature: history & criticism books

This collection of early work, college writing, newspaper pieces, and stories of life in Florida by Marjorie Kinnan...  Read More >>

More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state...  Read More >>

""I've struck it!"" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. ""And I will give it away - to you. You will...  Read More >>

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity....  Read More >>

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Brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, this title delves into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he...  Read More >>

Examining the African American and white racial binary in contemporary multiracial literature, Molly Littlewood...  Read More >>

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity....  Read More >>

A study in the literature of selfhood across time, this book analyzes how the Gnostics, the Romantics, Kierkegaard,...  Read More >>

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Archipelagothic: The Gothic in Philippine Culture is an edited volume that brings together essays that examine the...  Read More >>

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In the grand tapestry of ancient Greek mythology, some threads are woven with divine power and mortal ambition....  Read More >>

The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. Contributions by Charles Baudelaire, Jesi Bender, Kevin Boniface,...  Read More >>

Sometimes you have to lose everything to find yourself. This is not a book about being strong all the time. It is...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive overview of Werner Sollors' ground-breaking work on culture and ethnicity.  Read More >>

Argues that Shakespeare's plays are dramaturgically misogynist and that surface-level interventions cannot remediate...  Read More >>

Offers an ecocritical approach to understanding dress in early modern plays and performance  Read More >>

Short, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks's diverse critical work.  Read More >>

Establishes maternity as a vital theme within Virginia Woolf's feminist and political thought  Read More >>

Offers the first full-length study of Cicely Saunders' idea of 'total pain', providing a fresh perspective on the...  Read More >>