Literature: history & criticism books

The latest volume in our new Fantagraphics Atlas Creator Collection focuses on the feverishly imaginative Bill Everett's...  Read More >>

An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women's experiences across the African diaspora...  Read More >>

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

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Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical...  Read More >>

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

The Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about...  Read More >>

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This is a wide-ranging account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental...  Read More >>

An innovative collection of essays that explore the intersections between two powerful creative movements  Read More >>

Cormorant is the natural and cultural history of a 'greedy' bird that is hated across the world and the object of...  Read More >>

Delving into his biological imagery, Tara Lee shows how Blake articulates radical views about spirituality and embodiment,...  Read More >>

An exploration of the ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their own to...  Read More >>

This book delves into modernism, addressing its intricate relationship with the socio-political, philosophical,...  Read More >>

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies’ Home Journal to Vogue this diverse...  Read More >>

This book presents a systematic and detailed analysis of Caspian linguistics, contributing new perspectives to Western...  Read More >>

This book uses the medium of film to explore poetic history as a subtle form of psychology expressed within Islamic...  Read More >>

Volume 53 of the academic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama, Culture and Literature,...  Read More >>

This book targets a cluster of darknesses in a century that, in the wake of the Romantic euphoria for the nocturnal,...  Read More >>

The book demonstrates how apocalyptic narratives actively shape public understanding of environmental crisis, alternately...  Read More >>

This is a wide-ranging account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental...  Read More >>

An innovative collection of essays that explore the intersections between two powerful creative movements  Read More >>

This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval...  Read More >>