Literature: history & criticism books

Weaves the author's own four-month cross-country sojourn in a VW van with thoughts on travel narratives across the...  Read More >>

When a small town tycoon meets his end, everyone’s a suspect—but it takes a clever cat to reveal the essential clue....  Read More >>

The first critical anthology devoted solely to John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley.  Read More >>

A defense of the entrepreneur as the engine of prosperity.  Read More >>

The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities is a guide to the debates, concepts,...  Read More >>

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In Mapping Neshnabé Futurity Blaire Morseau weaves together on-the-ground insights and Indigenous speculative fiction...  Read More >>

Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning offers a bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin's groundbreaking...  Read More >>

Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets – Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin,...  Read More >>

George Eliot thought of herself as a teacher, as did her contemporaries. Their view that her writing was a deliberate...  Read More >>

First published in 1923, the original blurb reads: “This series of studies by a distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist,...  Read More >>

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The invention of the locomotive changed landscapes, cityscapes, social relations, sensibilities prophesied by Hans...  Read More >>

Masculinity in both the Republic and the Empire are well studied subjects, but by shining a light on the precise...  Read More >>

First Published in 1967 The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad is a major biography, a fruit of Jerry Allen’s ten years...  Read More >>

First Published in 1963 A Guide to the Plays of Bernard Shaw is a descriptive and critical account of Bernard Shaw’s...  Read More >>

The value of these lectures lies in their call to a joyful task still unfinished. The kind of Christian culture...  Read More >>

This book emerged from a decades-long conversation between two passions: my love for Rabindranath Tagore's luminous...  Read More >>

How do you pick a book? What encourages you to explore? Does the book cover entice you to take a peek in, to open...  Read More >>

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""Reveals hidden depths of the Hemingway mystique through the eyes of a modern writer who spent a decade immersed...  Read More >>

A transformative lens revealing the historical racial context that profoundly influenced European fairy tales. Engaging...  Read More >>

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city’s...  Read More >>

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