Literature: history & criticism books

Examines the work and reception of the Arab emigre writer Gibran...  Read More >>

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In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks...  Read More >>

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This contextual guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by...  Read More >>

Brings together researchers from across the world to explore the creation, effect, craft, and effect of a feeling...  Read More >>

Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we...  Read More >>

In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it...  Read More >>

Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens....  Read More >>

Explores the depiction and treatment of inanimate matter in James Joyce's oeuvre.  Read More >>

Tells the global story of the cinematograph while modeling a film scholarship committed to transnational analysis...  Read More >>

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Lyrical Translation is a literary history of modern Korean poetry's origins and its development through translation....  Read More >>

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about...  Read More >>

Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter,...  Read More >>

From its recurring appearances in Gothic poetry and prose to the menacing images of Fuseli and Blake, Orianne Smith...  Read More >>

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

Japanese writers' engagement with kanshi unveils a journey from the Meiji era's mastery of Literary Sinitic poetry...  Read More >>

What's Ailing You? is an examination of the wounds Black families carry, the ones rooted in history, reinforced...  Read More >>

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This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's...  Read More >>

How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest. Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal,...  Read More >>

'Brilliant and discursive' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times 'Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws...  Read More >>

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

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