Literature: history & criticism books

The Weather and the Words depicts the poet John Newlove's life. Newlove's letters are a record not just of one person's...  Read More >>

This book examines the transnational dynamics that shape Latina affect narrative from the 1990s through the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Interviews that illuminate a life shaped by jazz, history, and verse  Read More >>

An exploration of how comics illuminate medicine, religion, and identity  Read More >>

Pascal Quignard delves into the uncanny bond between recognition and loss, outlining how our earliest experiences...  Read More >>

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This volume explores the early Soviet reception of Laurence Sterne. By reconstructing individual readerly encounters...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern...  Read More >>

The Element traces the history of Shakespearean bibliography, arguing that understanding these is foundational...  Read More >>

Anne Shakespeare's grave is commemorated with a brass plaque that has an English section of basic biographical information,...  Read More >>

Drawing on critical insights from the history of emotion and Shakespearean emotion studies, this Element offers...  Read More >>

This Element highlights significant changes in attitudes toward editing and emphasizes the critical role of editing...  Read More >>

This Element argues that movement, overseen by a movement director, is vital for theatre-making. It can support...  Read More >>

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century mass print generated a sea of discourse belying Jurgen Habermas's vision of a...  Read More >>

This Element explores the relationship between creativity, poetry, and cognition through the lenses of cognitive...  Read More >>

This Handbook deals with textual criticism of Greek and Latin literature and of ancient documents (inscriptions,...  Read More >>

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Timeless wisdom from the ancient world to dip into every day - from internationally bestselling classicist Irene...  Read More >>

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