Literature: history & criticism books

An examination of evolving ideas about British citizenship in Romantic fiction in the proto-bureaucratic conditions...  Read More >>

""This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

During the 21st century, the collective hero has emerged as the defining archetype in media, reflecting shifts in...  Read More >>

The Mabinogion Setis a book about the most famous of medieval Welsh stories: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi....  Read More >>

Offers a unique perspective to medieval femininity and spirituality through the lens of trauma present within The...  Read More >>

A study of four plays by Tony Kushner that are most political and pertinent for our time  Read More >>

Since the Middle Ages, bearshave mostfrequentlybeen seenas objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears...  Read More >>

Reimagine our relationship with the natural world through the Welsh poetic tradition. At a time of biodiversity...  Read More >>

Focusing on the poetry and poetics of four pivotal authors, this book examines how experimental approaches to poetic...  Read More >>

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings,...  Read More >>

An examination of how artists use comics to challenge dominant portrayals and reclaim narrative control, positioning...  Read More >>

Looking at experimental disability poetry, this book shows how poets from the 1960s to the present develop disability-informed...  Read More >>

In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining...  Read More >>

An essential volume for bibliophiles and collectors- a complete list of all available Penguin Classics, in a clothbound...  Read More >>

'¿Invisibles? Trans-identidades en la España contemporánea' analiza la experiencia, corporeidad, identidad y representación...  Read More >>

Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship...  Read More >>

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

Interviews that illuminate a life shaped by jazz, history, and verse  Read More >>

An exploration of how comics illuminate medicine, religion, and identity  Read More >>

Glimmering meditations on time, memory, imprisonment, human connection, life and death by the preeminent Italian...  Read More >>

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writings The young...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the...  Read More >>

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Examining culture and history from the early nineteenth century to the present, Horizons of Catastrophe in the American...  Read More >>

Places Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world and investigates...  Read More >>