Literature: history & criticism books

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Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly...  Read More >>

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Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American...  Read More >>

A meticulously curated reference aid streamlines the exploration of vital contemporary literature through rigorous...  Read More >>

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Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

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Explores a key moment in Brazilian modernism, supplemented with primary texts by Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari,...  Read More >>

Get It While It's Hot brings together scholars, food writers, influencers, and even a CEO to discuss the phenomenon...  Read More >>

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

In Queer Forms and Pronouns, author Lena Mattheis explores gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in Anglophone literature...  Read More >>

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

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Examines the reasons why the Folio came into being in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, and how the now...  Read More >>

Explores the stylistic and formal inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers from Britain, the United States,...  Read More >>

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent...  Read More >>

Focusing on ten key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents...  Read More >>

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening...  Read More >>

This cross-cultural study explores and redefines what philosophy, philosophizing, and philosophers are through the...  Read More >>

A critical assessment by leading scholars on the relationship between music and the life’s work of Stanley Cavell....  Read More >>

Analyzing the stylistic innovations most characteristic in pivotal works of literary realism, Prosaic Times shows...  Read More >>

The first collection to engage with “Instapoetry,” this book explores the aesthetics and ideologies of the 21st...  Read More >>