Literature: history & criticism books

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf’s beloved classic, with a new foreword.  Read More >>

Seventeen ingenious essays devoted to snails’ and aquatic invertebrates’ uncanny ways of living. Mollusks’ innermost...  Read More >>

HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI:...  Read More >>

Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,...  Read More >>

Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and...  Read More >>

Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation...  Read More >>

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In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese...  Read More >>

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  Read More >>

""Marianne Tarcov argues that early 20th century Japanese lyric poetry was able to serve as a mode of political...  Read More >>

In Quest of a Cure explores the literary and medical cultures of European health resorts in the nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

A layered exploration of the immigrant identity through the voices of multiple Nigerian American characters. The...  Read More >>

New paperback edition - Sisters Jane and Cassandra Austen were inseparable and sought one anothers approval in all...  Read More >>

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  Read More >>

""Marianne Tarcov argues that early 20th century Japanese lyric poetry was able to serve as a mode of political...  Read More >>

This book takes a literary geographical approach to the study of folklore, exploring the complex relationships between...  Read More >>

A poetic journey through five decades of Karnataka's history, this collection brings K. S. Nisar Ahmed's timeless...  Read More >>

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Robert M. Adams's translation, which renders French intent in English...  Read More >>

Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media tells a new story of how nineteenth-century evangelicals...  Read More >>

Byletta fully intended to divorce her husband, Arnald, until he suggested an absurd wager. If he can give her a...  Read More >>