Literature: history & criticism books

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  Read More >>

""Marianne Tarcov argues that early 20th century Japanese lyric poetry was able to serve as a mode of political...  Read More >>

Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media tells a new story of how nineteenth-century evangelicals...  Read More >>

Published for the first time, John Berger and Susan Sontag's collaboration and correspondence across a quarter-century...  Read More >>

Byletta fully intended to divorce her husband, Arnald, until he suggested an absurd wager. If he can give her a...  Read More >>

The highly anticipated sequel to BOOKWORM about how books of all kinds delight, guide, comfort and strengthen us...  Read More >>

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A new play from playwright Sarah Power (Grud) about what we owe each other when the past demands a reckoning.  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary volume asserts the ongoing and changing role of religion in Irish culture. Offering new perspectives...  Read More >>

By providing the first comprehensive study of the culturally and historically significant field of American gay...  Read More >>

A one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter, the fictional character with many lives in literature, film, and...  Read More >>

Based on two decades of original research and exclusive access to unpublished material, a ground-breaking biography...  Read More >>

Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues, Yin Dao Du Bai, Yin Dao Zhi Dao, and...  Read More >>

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

""An account of the endangerment and survival of utopian fiction in the 21st century, and how they can provide a...  Read More >>

Tangential Terrains is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of Black women writers in the official journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church  Read More >>

Examines how challenged texts open windows, mirrors, and sliding doors into diverse human experiences while cultivating...  Read More >>

This book is a study of the impact of nineteenth-century popular literature on its contemporary society as well...  Read More >>

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How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>