Literature: history & criticism books

The Epic of Florida brings to light a neglected tradition of colonial poetry from the sixteenth century. Written...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination...  Read More >>

The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward God  Read More >>

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

Die Gründerin der Internationalen Jugendbibliothek Jella Lepman (1891-1970) gehört zu den prägenden Persönlichkeiten...  Read More >>

This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism...  Read More >>

This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74). One of the last great polymaths,...  Read More >>

Las preguntas de la inquietud reúne veintiséis lecturas críticas que acompañan los textos de Inquietud. Una mirada...  Read More >>

Prolific British writer Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865-1947) took his place with Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon...  Read More >>

Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action...  Read More >>

Russo-Soviet imperialist hauntings conceptualizes neo-Gothic texts from the former Eastern Bloc countries and Soviet...  Read More >>

Here's the story of a Black American language and culture professor who it too ashamed to admit she is terrified...  Read More >>

THE MIRIAM SYNDROME How Women Who Lead Are Removed, Rewritten, and Forgotten Miriam led. She brought the women...  Read More >>

The Epic of Florida brings to light a neglected tradition of colonial poetry from the sixteenth century. Written...  Read More >>

This is the first book to explore the history of self-translation in Chinese. It reveals how self-translation was...  Read More >>

Explores Bengal> 's political, social, and cultural history through Rabindranath Tagore> 's music and ideas. Using...  Read More >>

Redefining Faith in Dante’s ""Divine Comedy"" offers a bold reinterpretation of one of the world’s most studied...  Read More >>

This book reexamines William Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939), a novel of increasing sociohistorical...  Read More >>

History has shown that antisemitism reactivates and rises like a latent viral infection at the slightest crisis...  Read More >>

This book is a go-to source for educators, including those in late-primary education, secondary education, and undergraduate...  Read More >>

This new theory of reader response describes ""perverse attachment,"" or the powerful desire to intervene in a story,...  Read More >>

This edited volume presents a collection of new essays on Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis from leading figures in...  Read More >>

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Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion...  Read More >>