Literature: history & criticism books

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

Ellen McLarney explores how writers in the Black Arts Movement identified with Islam as integral to the African...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

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""The Story of the Peony Lantern"" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347–1433) traveled across lingual, cultural, and...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of Black women writers in the official journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church  Read More >>

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story...  Read More >>

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In a complete collection of works by one of Malaysia’s foundational poets, Wong confronts the struggles of cultural...  Read More >>

Furious Harvests, a collection of striking poetry by Alex Averbuch, explores existential questions that war raises:...  Read More >>

Ultimately, Tales for Fairies not only reveals the long-standing compatibility between queerness and the fairy tale...  Read More >>

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

A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood....  Read More >>

The lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers' life writing Paper Heroines studies the...  Read More >>

This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary...  Read More >>

The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizing A robust...  Read More >>

Two New Testament scholars explore the ways the Jesus story has been told and retold from the earliest Gospel writings...  Read More >>

Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

Galicia as a Literary Idea explores the relationship of Jewish tradition and modernity in literary works by Joseph...  Read More >>

Examines US-Mexico borderland representations in horror films, TV series and comics.  Read More >>

Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries....  Read More >>

Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern...  Read More >>

If ever a play had something to say about the art of statesmanship, that play is Sir Thomas More. Its origins and...  Read More >>

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>