Literature: history & criticism books

If ever a play had something to say about the art of statesmanship, that play is Sir Thomas More. Its origins and...  Read More >>

An indispensable resource for scholars and students of James Joyce, Joyce Studies Annual gathers essays by foremost...  Read More >>

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  Read More >>

Centuries of conflict in the Italian peninsula yield to the rise of the House of Savoy, whose strategic marriages,...  Read More >>

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 >>

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

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  Read More >>

This book provides an exciting and informed overview of new, emerging, and radical approaches to the long ghost...  Read More >>

Delve into a creative universe built on faith as the cornerstone of ethics, where moral dilemmas and cruelty intertwine...  Read More >>

This volume presents the work of a group of international academics on the topic of reproduction and motherhood...  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 >>

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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This book offers the first critical edition and English translation of Vincenzo Figliucci’s Stanze sopra le stelle...  Read More >>

This book rethinks the relation between philosophy and literature as an agonic relation, not privileging either...  Read More >>

The Garden Entrusted to Me collects Robert Bly's essential writings on his life and practice of poetry, revealing...  Read More >>