Literature: history & criticism books

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

This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical...  Read More >>

This book provides an exciting and informed overview of new, emerging, and radical approaches to the long ghost...  Read More >>

This volume presents the work of a group of international academics on the topic of reproduction and motherhood...  Read More >>

The debut play by INSPIRE graduate David Pearson, Firewing is a striking new play about connection, artistry and...  Read More >>

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The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  Read More >>

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition...  Read More >>

An instant cult classic that remains deeply relevant today: both an incisive and funny travelogue and a revealing...  Read More >>

Explores the intersections of print, writing, and media in early American literary cultures Print Technologies...  Read More >>

Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology examines five female-authored novelizations of The Tempest,...  Read More >>

Please Please Me is the electrifying story of The Beatles’ meteoric rise and the hidden struggles of their beloved...  Read More >>

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An exploration of the relationships between American rurality, conceptions of wellness and civic “fitness,” and...  Read More >>

An examination of vernacular authors' expression of religious experience and theology through metaphors of food...  Read More >>

An analysis of haiku-related poetic forms that traces their histories and analyzes current trends, while arguing...  Read More >>

A close look into systemic violence against women in French society through various forms of rebellion, both real...  Read More >>

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 >>