Literature: history & criticism books

Exploring the poetic fictions of prominent French, feminist writer Hélène Cixous, this open access book highlights...  Read More >>

Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers...  Read More >>

The first study of the translations of Andy Warhol's writing and ideas, Translating Warhol reveals how translation...  Read More >>

The first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.  Read More >>

The first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework...  Read More >>

This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture...  Read More >>

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse...  Read More >>

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

Before gothic villains stalked industrialising Britain, spectres were haunting British plantations in the 'New World'....  Read More >>

Disillusioned former high school sweethearts must come to terms with their past and present in the face of a tragedy....  Read More >>

Poems that capture a transformative and visionary way of life in Haiti. Konbit is a Haitian Creole word, a way...  Read More >>

An ambitious collection of poems that reckon with life and death through the point of view of famous speakers throughout...  Read More >>

Follow the everyday lives of those trying to keep up with a changing Nashville, Tennessee. Set in the rapidly...  Read More >>

A ruminative collection of poetry that is mystified by life in our built and natural world. Cameo Blue is a spiritual...  Read More >>

Reflects on the dark rise and fall of an ambitious rock music collective in the upper Midwest. Matthew Pitt's...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British Fiction in the 1950s, from J.R.R. Tolkien to Samuel Beckett, Kingsley...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British fiction of the 1930s, from Virginia Woolf and George Orwell to Sylvia...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British fiction of the 1960s, from J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter to A.S. Byatt,...  Read More >>

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential...  Read More >>

Ibsen in Context identifies thirty different contexts for understanding Ibsen's life and career at home, and considers...  Read More >>

Introducing readers to the broad socio-cultural contexts that shaped Chekhov's works and legacy, this insightful...  Read More >>

This open access book offers an array of educational perspectives aimed at fostering inclusive, multicultural, critical,...  Read More >>

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