Literature: history & criticism books

This one-of-a-kind cultural history explores caricature as a distinctively literary phenomenon, exploring how realism...  Read More >>

This Element discusses the presence of ruins in contemporary environmental imagination. Contemporary ruins express...  Read More >>

A smart, funny, loving defence and celebration of romantic fiction! For the romance fans and romance-curious readers...  Read More >>

A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts applies Freud’s anthropological writing and theories to contemporary works...  Read More >>

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers twenty-four case studies of mainstream and...  Read More >>

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A manual for investigating the depth, breadth and importance of contemporary fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin, Words...  Read More >>

This volume is the very first annotated translation of all the titled stories included in the New ABC Book and in...  Read More >>

This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new...  Read More >>

What motivated Milton? Tobias Gregory advances a new paradigm for Milton's shifting priorities, arguing that, at...  Read More >>

This Element discusses the presence of ruins in contemporary environmental imagination. Contemporary ruins express...  Read More >>

Showcases influential Iranian plays translated into English for the first time, offering a rich tapestry of Iran's...  Read More >>

A smart, funny, loving defence and celebration of romantic fiction! For the romance fans and romance-curious readers...  Read More >>

A Psychoanalytic Engagement with the Arts applies Freud’s anthropological writing and theories to contemporary works...  Read More >>

A joyful and enlightening masterclass in how reading attentively can change our lives As an English literature...  Read More >>

Offers a close look at the collaboration of the Czechoslovak avant-garde with print technicians to produce radical...  Read More >>

This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century....  Read More >>

This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century....  Read More >>

This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century....  Read More >>

This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century....  Read More >>

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This monograph offers a comprehensive exploration of Oliphant’s Gothic literature, in the light of her religious...  Read More >>

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Eight exciting Shakespeare retellings, alongside the story of his life and the history of Tudor London, all beautifully...  Read More >>

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