Literature: history & criticism books

An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

A landmark book-the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen...  Read More >>

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Understanding the source of our current political and social malaise through our emotional responses to it  Read More >>

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Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly...  Read More >>

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An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, a twelfth-century...  Read More >>

An open access collection that explores queer identity, inequality and belonging, in and beyond, Scotland.  Read More >>

In What's in a name?, historian Susan Amussen traces William Shakespeare's life through early modern England to...  Read More >>

Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American...  Read More >>

From Sarajevo to Tunisia to Rome, these five plays trace the invisible scars of exile, where memory and identity...  Read More >>

A meticulously curated reference aid streamlines the exploration of vital contemporary literature through rigorous...  Read More >>

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

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Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

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Modern antisemitism endangers Jewish communities and liberal democracy by disguising ancient prejudices in coded...  Read More >>

Exploring intricate links among aesthetics, anthropology, and political economy, this work examines cultural production...  Read More >>

Explores a key moment in Brazilian modernism, supplemented with primary texts by Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari,...  Read More >>

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

In Queer Forms and Pronouns, author Lena Mattheis explores gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in Anglophone literature...  Read More >>

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

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