Literature: history & criticism books

Examining the African American and white racial binary in contemporary multiracial literature, Molly Littlewood...  Read More >>

A stunning new volume from a poet whose body of work illuminates the ways “language can become a tool for carrying...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's most vocal woman character, her historical inspiration and her reinventions in performance through...  Read More >>

Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom offers a pioneering...  Read More >>

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity....  Read More >>

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Explore the soul and structure of modern Hindi verse. This scholarly work dissects the sensibility and craft of...  Read More >>

It begins like any other Tuesday morning in New York City. Emily Lombardo, a sharp-witted, coffee-dependent twenty-eight-year-old...  Read More >>

'ହୃଦାନନ୍ଦ ପାଣିଗ୍ରାହୀଙ୍କ କବିତାରେ କୃଷି ଓ କୃଷକ ସମ୍ପୃକ୍ତି' ପୁସ୍ତକଟି ସମାଜର ଏକ ମୁଖ୍ୟ ସମସ୍ୟାକୁ ଗ୍ରହଣ କରିଅଛି, ଯାହା ଚିରାଚରିତ...  Read More >>

""Die Erfahrung der Fremde"" versammelt ausgewählte Studien zur Reise- und Exilliteratur aus der ersten Hälfte des...  Read More >>

Alexander, the Duke of Kendleton, falls deeply in love with Abigail, a softspoken but spirited maid in his own household....  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive overview of Werner Sollors' ground-breaking work on culture and ethnicity.  Read More >>

Argues that Shakespeare's plays are dramaturgically misogynist and that surface-level interventions cannot remediate...  Read More >>

Offers an ecocritical approach to understanding dress in early modern plays and performance  Read More >>

Short, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks's diverse critical work.  Read More >>

Establishes maternity as a vital theme within Virginia Woolf's feminist and political thought  Read More >>

Offers the first full-length study of Cicely Saunders' idea of 'total pain', providing a fresh perspective on the...  Read More >>

A creative and analytical study of important facets of classical Persian poetry.  Read More >>

Shows how the study of modern Arabic literature was transformed by Mustafa Badawi.  Read More >>

Explores developments in Arab autobiography over the last 40 years.  Read More >>

Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the 'nahdah', from the 1700s onwards.  Read More >>

Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel.  Read More >>

Studies a neglected area of postcolonial fiction, fostering a better understanding of Iraqi culture and society....  Read More >>