Literature: history & criticism books

This volume interrogates the role of the manuscript medium in conveying history to medieval and early modern readers....  Read More >>

Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through...  Read More >>

The story of Albina is one of Britain's early foundation myths. After plotting to murder their husbands, Albina...  Read More >>

At the end of the nineteenth century, the storypaper The Funny Wonder ran a serial called The Human Bat which asserted...  Read More >>

""This book examines attempts to escape the reach of the state in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature""--...  Read More >>

Set just before Britain engages in the Napoleonic wars, celebrated officer Bertram Wraydon is framed for spying...  Read More >>

A friend to those he protects, a devil to his enemies, Spring-Heeled Jack returns in the second part of the 1886...  Read More >>

The 1881 Series of 48 instalments created a new version of Spring-Heeled Jack. This volume is split into two parts...  Read More >>

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世言黄帝华胥境， 千古秦荒孰再游 。 但解逍遥化蝴蝶， 不须富贵慕蚍蜉。 邯郸梦事岂关身？ 未熟黄粱迹已陈。 输与乌衣老铃下， 日中睡觉一颦伸。 ...  Read More >>

""Mr. O'Sullivan, an authentic personal acquaintance of Wilde in those days, with no special affection for him nor...  Read More >>

'I have put all my genius into my life; I have put only my talent into my works.'-Oscar Wilde. André Gide first...  Read More >>

This book emerged from a decades-long conversation between two passions: my love for Rabindranath Tagore's luminous...  Read More >>

Diónysos is a literary encounter between instinct & intellect, order & chaos, life & death.  Read More >>

A brilliant and satirical novelist of ideas; a prophet of the future; a pioneer of psychedelic experimentation:...  Read More >>

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Virginia Woolf: Profession and Performance explores the intersection of Virginia Woolf’s conceptualization of art,...  Read More >>

The first translation of surviving fragments of lost works by Suetonius, the famous Roman author, who wrote in the...  Read More >>

Eliot Studies Annual strives to be the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light...  Read More >>

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Brings together scholars and practitioners to present an ethnic studies framework for studying and teaching youth...  Read More >>

It pushes extant literary evaluations of entropy into a new realm by interrogating the human cost of entropic circumstances,...  Read More >>

There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between conceptions of meaning and the interpretation...  Read More >>

Explores the cultivation of weak subjectivity through modes such as gender subversion, queer holy foolishness, intoxication,...  Read More >>

Examining how Charles Johnson's 1724 bestseller General History of the Pyrates depicts figures like Blackbeard both...  Read More >>