Literature: history & criticism books

The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. Contributions by Charles Baudelaire, Jesi Bender, Kevin Boniface,...  Read More >>

Sometimes you have to lose everything to find yourself. This is not a book about being strong all the time. It is...  Read More >>

Archipelagothic: The Gothic in Philippine Culture is an edited volume that brings together essays that examine the...  Read More >>

Examining the African American and white racial binary in contemporary multiracial literature, Molly Littlewood...  Read More >>

A stunning new volume from a poet whose body of work illuminates the ways “language can become a tool for carrying...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's most vocal woman character, her historical inspiration and her reinventions in performance through...  Read More >>

Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom offers a pioneering...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive overview of Werner Sollors' ground-breaking work on culture and ethnicity.  Read More >>

Argues that Shakespeare's plays are dramaturgically misogynist and that surface-level interventions cannot remediate...  Read More >>

Offers an ecocritical approach to understanding dress in early modern plays and performance  Read More >>

Short, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks's diverse critical work.  Read More >>

Establishes maternity as a vital theme within Virginia Woolf's feminist and political thought  Read More >>

Offers the first full-length study of Cicely Saunders' idea of 'total pain', providing a fresh perspective on the...  Read More >>

A creative and analytical study of important facets of classical Persian poetry.  Read More >>

Shows how the study of modern Arabic literature was transformed by Mustafa Badawi.  Read More >>

Explores developments in Arab autobiography over the last 40 years.  Read More >>

Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the 'nahdah', from the 1700s onwards.  Read More >>

Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel.  Read More >>

Studies a neglected area of postcolonial fiction, fostering a better understanding of Iraqi culture and society....  Read More >>

Provides a nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national'...  Read More >>

Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nationstate, modernity and tradition.  Read More >>

Explores the intricately crafted rhetorical strategies used by al-Jahiz in his letters.  Read More >>

Investigates the semantic permutations of 'homeness' in post-war diasporic Anglophone Lebanese novels.  Read More >>

Argues that Victorian literature uses traces of a lingering past to theorise time as non-progressive and discontinuous...  Read More >>