Literature: history & criticism books

Since the Middle Ages, bearshave mostfrequentlybeen seenas objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears...  Read More >>

Reimagine our relationship with the natural world through the Welsh poetic tradition. At a time of biodiversity...  Read More >>

Focusing on the poetry and poetics of four pivotal authors, this book examines how experimental approaches to poetic...  Read More >>

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings,...  Read More >>

An examination of how artists use comics to challenge dominant portrayals and reclaim narrative control, positioning...  Read More >>

Looking at experimental disability poetry, this book shows how poets from the 1960s to the present develop disability-informed...  Read More >>

In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining...  Read More >>

An essential volume for bibliophiles and collectors- a complete list of all available Penguin Classics, in a clothbound...  Read More >>

'¿Invisibles? Trans-identidades en la España contemporánea' analiza la experiencia, corporeidad, identidad y representación...  Read More >>

Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship...  Read More >>

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

Glimmering meditations on time, memory, imprisonment, human connection, life and death by the preeminent Italian...  Read More >>

More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state...  Read More >>

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writings The young...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the...  Read More >>

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Examining culture and history from the early nineteenth century to the present, Horizons of Catastrophe in the American...  Read More >>

Poems inspired by the strong women in award-winning poet Amit Majmudar's life, celebrating the influence and energy...  Read More >>

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

Gothic London: Occult Societies and Ghostly Whispers is the first in depth study of the capital and its gothic and...  Read More >>

A provocative history of Disney's rise to cultural dominance, pulling skeletons from the corporate closet to decode...  Read More >>

Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution...  Read More >>

The internet has enabled new forms of literature and challenged older forms to reinvent themselves. Between Novel...  Read More >>

Places Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world and investigates...  Read More >>

An analysis of US science fiction, through the lens of critical race theory, that illuminates how the genre offers...  Read More >>