Literature: history & criticism books

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Cormorant is the natural and cultural history of a 'greedy' bird that is hated across the world and the object of...  Read More >>

Delving into his biological imagery, Tara Lee shows how Blake articulates radical views about spirituality and embodiment,...  Read More >>

An exploration of the ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their own to...  Read More >>

This book delves into modernism, addressing its intricate relationship with the socio-political, philosophical,...  Read More >>

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies’ Home Journal to Vogue this diverse...  Read More >>

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

This book uses the medium of film to explore poetic history as a subtle form of psychology expressed within Islamic...  Read More >>

Volume 53 of the academic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama, Culture and Literature,...  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 >>

The book demonstrates how apocalyptic narratives actively shape public understanding of environmental crisis, alternately...  Read More >>

This open access book reframes performance and pedagogy through their shared ‘objects’ and lays the foundation for...  Read More >>

This is a wide-ranging account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental...  Read More >>

Offering new insights from a range of experienced and emerging scholars, this volume analyses Shakespeare’s Twelfth...  Read More >>

An innovative collection of essays that explore the intersections between two powerful creative movements  Read More >>

This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval...  Read More >>

A study of the fragments of Old Comedy, arguing that these fragments greatly enlarge our understanding of the history...  Read More >>

This book offers a critical exploration of the intersections of poverty, pollution, and caste in India through the...  Read More >>

A new electric play, NICE THINGS explores the relationship of a gay couple, in the midst of their comfortable years,...  Read More >>

A reflection on the realities of animal extinction and endangerment, focusing especially on the force of human impact...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1937, this anthology of humorous poems was created for the younger reader as a supplement...  Read More >>

With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Informed by oral poetics, performance theory, and memory studies, Through the Looking Glass approaches Anarkali—the...  Read More >>

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand...  Read More >>