Literature: history & criticism books

The first full examination of a fascinating manuscript, Brogynton ii.1, a Middle English miscellany with a little...  Read More >>

This book is the first full-length study of apes and monkeys on the early modern stage. The book investigates the...  Read More >>

Six exciting new plays by top UK playwrights like Travis Albanza and Ella Hickson, written specifically for and...  Read More >>

Captures in unprecedented depth the cultural significance of the designed landscape and its relationship with Bluestocking...  Read More >>

Joanne Kathleen Rowling's transformation from struggling single mother to literary phenomenon stands as one of publishing's...  Read More >>

color: black;"">“This original study will no doubt draw attention to St. John Hankin’s work, which may in turn receive...  Read More >>

Winner of the 2024 Gapper Prize, awarded annually by the Society for French Studies for the best book of its year...  Read More >>

Since the earliest days of its circulation, Dante's Divine Comedy has drawn readers into conversation with it, but...  Read More >>

Fiction as History is an interdisciplinary analysis of over twenty Angolan novels written from the 1960s to the...  Read More >>

Federico Garcia Lorca's (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect...  Read More >>

In Dante's Paradiso, the first garden dweller, Adam, speaks of the language he 'used and shaped' (Par. XXVI, 114)...  Read More >>

As the author of the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series, Émile Zola enjoys a reputation as one of the greatest...  Read More >>

Henry Hall (c. 1656-1707), Organist of Hereford Cathedral and composer of church music, was also a compulsive writer...  Read More >>

Focussing on the experience of work, community and the functioning of class society; on relations between France...  Read More >>

The Diasporic Canon is the first monograph to be dedicated to the history of a national literary canon in another...  Read More >>

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This volume illustrates the hospitality of the French language expressed through diverse experiences that nourish...  Read More >>

In France, in Sweden and in the United States, since the beginning of the 1970s, children's novels explore the inner...  Read More >>

This volume brings together nearly 150 articles on music, absent from other Rollandian books. From ancient music...  Read More >>

D. Bauer, Deep Time in an Age of Traces. Modern Temporality in Balzac's Le Colonel Chabert and La Peau de chagrin...  Read More >>

There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between ethics and the interpretation of literature,...  Read More >>

Diversity and inclusion have not only gained key importance in our times, but they have also been at the core of...  Read More >>

若蓝在2020年3月11日-2022年6月19日断断续续写了272篇有关新冠疫情的日记。2020年3月到6月写了100篇。2021年底到2022年6月写了172篇。这272篇疫情日记不仅记录了有关中美疫情的时事新闻，也记录了若蓝身边的生活琐事。...  Read More >>

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This is the first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), one of the major literary...  Read More >>