Literature: history & criticism books

The first in-depth study of the essential role Switzerland played in Charles Dickens's imagination  Read More >>

Articulates life writing's complex engagement with the nineteenth-century literary market  Read More >>

Part of Amir Kalan's larger Writing in Times of Crisis project, this book offers an innovative arts-based exploration...  Read More >>

Print Passages researches the history of the coming of the printed book in Indonesia and the consequences this new...  Read More >>

Der Sammelband untersucht philologische Praktiken in vormodernen Schriftkulturen aus globaler Perspektive. Im Zentrum...  Read More >>

Takes a geographical/spatial approach to Beirut to understand how the city is imagined in 16 modern Arabic novels....  Read More >>

Provides both scholars and general readers of African American poetry with a comprehensive history written by the...  Read More >>

This book provides a new translation of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's novel he Return of Munchausen, with an extensive...  Read More >>

A definitive account of newspaper and periodical press history across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales covering...  Read More >>

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

Scholarly essays examine the enduring allure of Arthurian legends—from medieval texts to modern adaptations across...  Read More >>

An innovative teaching guide reinterprets an ancient epic by linking its Bronze Age roots to contemporary issues...  Read More >>

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Part memoir, part literary history, Ground to Stand On offers vivid testimony of the tenacity of the first generations...  Read More >>

Brings together Arthur Conan Doyle's Egyptian-themed works, based on his imperial travels.  Read More >>

William Sterrell, a professor at Oxford, published as William Shakespeare. Examined closely are Venus and Adonis...  Read More >>

William Sterrell, a professor at Oxford, published as William Shakespeare. Examined closely are Venus and Adonis...  Read More >>

A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the present Audiofuturism uncovers the vibrant,...  Read More >>

A radical reinstatement of the public in the history of the formation of the 'modern' museum.  Read More >>

Contextualises modernist-era feminist writings of Beatrice Hastings and Katherine Mansfield in The New Age magazine....  Read More >>

Shows that form and materiality in early modern English literary texts must be understood together.  Read More >>

Telepoetics explores how telephony has shaped and been shaped by literature.  Read More >>

A comprehensive and cutting-edge guide to Alasdair Gray's literary and artistic practice.  Read More >>

Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition....  Read More >>