Literature: history & criticism books

By providing the first comprehensive study of the culturally and historically significant field of American gay...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues, Yin Dao Du Bai, Yin Dao Zhi Dao, and...  Read More >>

Based on two decades of original research and exclusive access to unpublished material, a ground-breaking biography...  Read More >>

Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition...  Read More >>

A one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter, the fictional character with many lives in literature, film, and...  Read More >>

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

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

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

""An account of the endangerment and survival of utopian fiction in the 21st century, and how they can provide a...  Read More >>

Tangential Terrains is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions...  Read More >>

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

Examines how challenged texts open windows, mirrors, and sliding doors into diverse human experiences while cultivating...  Read More >>

An intriguing investigation of how aging, place, and care intersect in the newly emerging genre of the care home...  Read More >>

This book is a study of the impact of nineteenth-century popular literature on its contemporary society as well...  Read More >>

Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

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

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

The essays in Mezukak Shivatayim pay tribute to Bernard Septimus’s writing and teaching, covering rabbinic culture,...  Read More >>

After storming the scene with Stereo(TYPE), the PEN America Award-winning poet makes his highly anticipated return-with...  Read More >>

How Shakespeare's exploration of central human questions-about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong-explains...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet examines the lives and sacrifices of his foremothers in his most personal collection...  Read More >>

Transforms the study of borders into an immersive visual and intellectual experience, revealing how boundaries are...  Read More >>