Literature: history & criticism books

The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, recollecting his childhood...  Read More >>

The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler...  Read More >>

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This original and moving new play explores private and public histories, grief and love – and the making and re-making...  Read More >>

This volume provides an analysis of the constitution of the idea of furor poeticus (poetic frenzy), the conception...  Read More >>

This radical new work of cultural history is not concerned with the effeminacy of Shakespeare the man, but with...  Read More >>

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This book analyzes how women’s literary production across the Americas engages with the United Nations’ Sustainable...  Read More >>

This book explores how hand-constructed minicomics are made, how they circulate and are stored in readers’ homes,...  Read More >>

This monograph examines Irish narratives produced in Argentina between 1900 and 1994, bringing critical attention...  Read More >>

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In these stories, survival is never clean. It is negotiated in whispers, in silences held too long, in choices that...  Read More >>

Provides both scholars and interested readers the context necessary to understand how Allen Ginsberg's life and...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between animals and the rational...  Read More >>

This book is for scholars and students of Latin American and Caribbean literature, and for a general audience familiar...  Read More >>

The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler...  Read More >>

This is the only stand-alone edition of Dryden's prose available; it presents texts central to Dryden's career,...  Read More >>

The anthology Another Humanism explores forms of subjectivity and critique within the humanist tradition relevant...  Read More >>

This radical new work of cultural history is not concerned with the effeminacy of Shakespeare the man, but with...  Read More >>

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In these stories, survival is never clean. It is negotiated in whispers, in silences held too long, in choices that...  Read More >>

A study of the deep history of the Wagnerian environmental imagination. Richard Wagner's operas are bursting with...  Read More >>

This book examines the history of goblins from the Middle Ages to the present. It shows that goblins—whether interpreted...  Read More >>

A new volume by acclaimed poet Kim Addonizio, whose work is known for its streetwise, unflinching explorations of...  Read More >>

Atmabodha ou De la connaissance de l'esprit est une version commentée du poème védantique de Çankara Acharya, traduite...  Read More >>