Literature: history & criticism books

""Beyond Brutality draws on feminist analysis and gender studies to examine tractate Sotah of the Babylonian Talmud...  Read More >>

This book offers a history of the most critically derided subgenre in American comics: the ""bad girl"" comics of...  Read More >>

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Collected interviews with the National Book Award-winning author of Victory Over Japan and many other critically...  Read More >>

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Richly illustrated examination of the relationship between art and literature in English art from Hogarth to Constable....  Read More >>

Everyone uses the word, usually somewhat in awe, certainly with respect; Alfred Nobel by means of his will left...  Read More >>

Outlines British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Twenty-one chapters...  Read More >>

This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. The author focusses...  Read More >>

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

Alone With Others provides an unparalleled intellectual-historical account of tact in modernist literature, film,...  Read More >>

For any reader curious about the wilder flights of fancy in eighteenth-century fiction and how they challenge colonial...  Read More >>

The freedom to read is under attack. From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today's state-sponsored...  Read More >>

En articulant analyse littéraire et étude d'archives, Deniz Keziban Çakıcı explore la pensée et l'écriture de Sevgi...  Read More >>

Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and literary genius The Life...  Read More >>

A new edition of John Millington Synge’s riveting story of youth and self-discovery, published to coincide with...  Read More >>

Realism has been disparaged for over a hundred years as an outmoded form, and, more recently, as a pernicious illusion,...  Read More >>

Outlines British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Twenty-one chapters...  Read More >>

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

Joy in literature and culture remains a little-studied subject, one sometimes even viewed with suspicion. Here,...  Read More >>

This volume with contributions on the literature of the Heisei era (1989-2019) contains analyses of contemporary...  Read More >>

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Mark Janse has spent an entire career being a philhellene. His passion for the Greek language has carried him from...  Read More >>

Last Thoughts on Euripides is a companion to the second edition of volume II of the Oxford Classical Text edition...  Read More >>

This is a second edition of the second volume of James Diggle's Oxford Classical Text of Euripides (1981). This...  Read More >>