Literature: history & criticism books

Providing a methodology for identifying literary narratives of climate change, this book draws on historical narrative...  Read More >>

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

An exploration of how Pakistani Anglophone novels engage with prior texts to shape meaning, reinforce themes, and...  Read More >>

In Other Words, the definitive translation coursebook for three decades, offers practical guidance based on linguistic...  Read More >>

This book reconsiders Iamblichus’ Response to Porphyry, Late Antiquity’s seminal work on theurgy, which is often...  Read More >>

Née sous Pétain en son ère de suspicion - répression - exécutions. Voit le bonheur de la Libération en échappant...  Read More >>

The first book-length treatment of the problem of slowness in Deleuze’s philosophy and its uses in understanding...  Read More >>

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

This book explores how Shakespeare’s original audience might have responded to his scenes of violence and, in the...  Read More >>

An introductory study of the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia, its main themes, historical context, and subsequent reception....  Read More >>

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Whether through medical encyclopedias, daily-use almanacs, or novels and anecdotes, readers pursued knowledge of...  Read More >>

This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the...  Read More >>

This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation...  Read More >>

Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close...  Read More >>

This book re-examines British women's writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces....  Read More >>

Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century...  Read More >>

This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of...  Read More >>

This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities the sexualities...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English...  Read More >>

This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers' and audiences'...  Read More >>

This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher, Massinger, and Field's Thierry and...  Read More >>