Literature: history & criticism books

Traces the development of Pushkin’s heroines from his youthful Southern Poems to his last published work The Captain’s...  Read More >>

A study of nineteenth-century Romantic literary artifacts centering on the removal of Parthenon sculptures from...  Read More >>

Demonstrates William James's role in the history of Anglo-American literary production and the practice of literary...  Read More >>

Professors, high school teachers, novelists, anti-censorship advocates, and librarians confront and examine the...  Read More >>

First published in 1914, Joseph Conrad's female-centred, uncharacteristically optimistic Chance represented a new...  Read More >>

Offers literary histories and analyses of different genres in African literature and verbal arts. The genres covered...  Read More >>

Examining three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book looks at how they engage...  Read More >>

Before gothic villains stalked industrialising Britain, spectres were haunting British plantations in the 'New World'....  Read More >>

Will appeal to scholars, students, and general audiences interested in American history, religion, and reform before...  Read More >>

Academic discourse on eyes has focused overwhelmingly on their visual function. Weeping Eyes turns instead to their...  Read More >>

Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary...  Read More >>

What was the role of insects in defining the human during the British eighteenth century? Through close ecocritical...  Read More >>

Presents authoritative, annotated versions of major stories and essays from three late eighteenth-century American...  Read More >>

An accurate and poetic translation of Paul Claudel’s Cinq Grandes Odes (1907), with detailed commentary introducing...  Read More >>

Kelsey Ridge provides a thorough overview of how we can use trauma theory to understand Shakespeare through its...  Read More >>

Books for Development analyzes how governmental and non-governmental actors deployed books as instruments of development...  Read More >>

Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee offers a revelatory volume of ecstatic poems that search out divine voices in the silences...  Read More >>

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situates American poetry within a world of global media to...  Read More >>

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Anna Ziegler's remarkable new play: an introduction to another world where ghosts and dreams are as real as anything...  Read More >>

Inspired by the true story of Katie Stagliano, her forty-pound cabbage and the nonprofit Katie’s Krops  Read More >>

The latest volume in Fantagraphics' Lost Marvels series, collecting all eight issues of the long-out-of-print, tough-minded...  Read More >>

Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly...  Read More >>

“A powerful debut, populated with lovers and painters and musicians and poets, all of it unified by D.S. Waldman’s...  Read More >>

Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly...  Read More >>