Literature: history & criticism books

Traces the connection between poetic content and form in the contradictory logic of determination that permeates...  Read More >>

Combining unsettling imagery with inventive form, this powerful collection explores the inner struggle to resist...  Read More >>

The National Book Award-winning writer’s intimate exploration of how fact is transformed into fiction  Read More >>

From the author of dying in the scarecrow's arms, new poems powered by the twin musical engines of punk and Hip-Hop....  Read More >>

Environmental Entanglements explores a long history of ecological thought in African literature and film. Beginning...  Read More >>

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A bracing feminist chronicle of the history of the West told through seven texts, exposing where our most virulent...  Read More >>

Beginning with her 29th birthday and ending with her 30th, Cazzie tries to mature in the span of one year. Along...  Read More >>

Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 1: Ennead I contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and first translation...  Read More >>

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This volume in offers a definitive account of newspaper and periodical press activity across Britain and Ireland...  Read More >>

Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain...  Read More >>

A remarkable collection of Lyn Hejinian's previously uncollected early poems from 1963 to 1983  Read More >>

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>

Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture  Read More >>

Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel  Read More >>

Examines the work and reception of the Arab emigre writer Gibran...  Read More >>

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In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks...  Read More >>

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This contextual guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by...  Read More >>

Brings together researchers from across the world to explore the creation, effect, craft, and effect of a feeling...  Read More >>

Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we...  Read More >>

In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it...  Read More >>