Literature: history & criticism books

An indispensable resource for scholars and students of James Joyce, Joyce Studies Annual gathers essays by foremost...  Read More >>

Centuries of conflict in the Italian peninsula yield to the rise of the House of Savoy, whose strategic marriages,...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of Black women writers in the official journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church  Read More >>

This book presents a systematic and detailed analysis of Caspian linguistics, contributing new perspectives to Western...  Read More >>

This book targets a cluster of darknesses in a century that, in the wake of the Romantic euphoria for the nocturnal,...  Read More >>

In this concise and creative book, Nathan Lefler places G. K. Chesterton and René Girard in conversation on the...  Read More >>

McCrae's latest collection considers the nature of perception and experiments with form and punctuation. This...  Read More >>

In this survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, seasoned Joyceans introduce the methodologies that...  Read More >>

Bringing together nineteen essays from leading specialists in poetics and American music, this collection offers...  Read More >>

At the end of World War II, a demon-summoning ritual drastically altered the face of the earth. Now, a hundred years...  Read More >>

A narrative sequence of lyric poems reimagining Joan of Arc as a framework for queer identity, transformation, and...  Read More >>

A post-apocalyptic Native poetry collection that creates possibility for repair and reconciliation by holding the...  Read More >>

In a rigid postwar institution where friendships burn bright and...  Read More >>

As past and future blur, this work from Alexander Kluge reveals the emotional and intellectual currents that drive...  Read More >>

These newly translated stories chart the making of a literary provocateur, one experiment and ethical dilemma at...  Read More >>

In a forest where every step is familiar, Sára searches for mushrooms—but what she unearths instead are the long-buried...  Read More >>

Author and historian Garrett Peck traces Willa Cather’s adventures in the Southwest and how they influenced her...  Read More >>

The perfect gift for the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fan, The Complete Sherlock Holmes is an elegant edition boasting...  Read More >>

Around 1700, England saw a heated public debate about the soul's immortality. Two unlikely figures--a lawyer and...  Read More >>

The 1810s are often overlooked as a transitional time between Romantic and Victorian literature and culture. The...  Read More >>

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather...  Read More >>

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Perhaps Greece's most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and...  Read More >>

In her heartrending sixth collection of poetry, Anne Marie Macari communes with a brother decades gone and calls...  Read More >>