Literature: history & criticism books

A new anthology of 8 plays written for young performers as part of the National Theatre Connections Festival 2026....  Read More >>

A revolutionary anthology of essays and dramatic works by contemporary Disabled theatre artists Rebellious Bodies...  Read More >>

Students of creative writing and Modernist literature, and readers already familiar with D.H. Lawrence's works,...  Read More >>

This book revisits a rich yet little-known field of Nepali literature. It offers a nuanced picture of the complexities...  Read More >>

This volume is for students, teachers, and general readers who want to understand the complex relationship between...  Read More >>

Offering an accessible and wide-ranging account of how Shakespeare engaged with the working world around him, this...  Read More >>

John Milton and Andrew Marvell are central figures of seventeenth-century literature. Yet there has until now been...  Read More >>

An introduction to Aristophanes’ much-debated utopian comedy, its social, cultural, political, and theatrical contexts,...  Read More >>

This book explores Shklovsky’s participation in early-Soviet debates about the relations between agency, volition,...  Read More >>

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, this second edition...  Read More >>

An innovative stylistic exploration of Man Booker Prize novels  Read More >>

This book examines how the sense of touch complements the senses of sight and hearing, expanding notions of “art”...  Read More >>

Five universal stories that celebrate the strength of the human spirit, blending hope, humour and heart.  Read More >>

Aleksandr Aleksandrov was an author and soldier in service of the Russian tsar, active in the Prussian theater of...  Read More >>

Argues that after the Nazis came to power, prominent exile writers fictionalized and metaphorized the lives of real...  Read More >>

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This book examines how twentieth-century anglophone authors use katabasis to express poetics and position themselves...  Read More >>

Too often, Ettinger's contributions are examined in isolation, missing the critical Lacanian underpinnings that...  Read More >>

An alarming expose of the new challenges to literary freedom in the age of social media when anyone with an identity...  Read More >>

This is the fourth volume of the landmark scholarly edition of William Godwin's letters.  Read More >>

Tainted Tools addresses the tension between new materialisms' decolonial ambitions and its perception as a White...  Read More >>

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This Handbook explores the development and influence of H.G. Wells intellectual ideas from the late nineteenth century...  Read More >>

A rigorous exploration of literature as a tool for social change, revealing how gender and national identity intertwine...  Read More >>