Literature: history & criticism books

This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary...  Read More >>

With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Joseph Ashmore argues that early modern literature became a key site for handling questions of faith during the...  Read More >>

Laura Fox Gill sheds new light on Milton's afterlives in a multimedia age, expanding our understanding of literary...  Read More >>

This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary...  Read More >>

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell shared one of the most remarkable literary friendships of the 19th century,...  Read More >>

An investigation of the specific uses of the motif of melancholy in modern Kurdish novels  Read More >>

This volume explores the evolution of Arab women's self-representations in literature, highlighting their resistance...  Read More >>

This seventh collection by acclaimed poet Susan Stewart offers a meditation on difficulty and the powers of nature....  Read More >>

Brings together Maggie Humm's pioneering work on feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf, film and visual cultures....  Read More >>

Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Not Everything Unfolds as...  Read More >>

Attends to the early modern stage as a platform for the creation and interrogation of knowledge and knowledge production,...  Read More >>

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What kind of a playwright comes into being when an avant-garde poet moves on to write Christian popular theatre,...  Read More >>

A look into how Anglo masculinities weaponize forms of violence to bolster U.S. interests and expand borders, establishing...  Read More >>

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The Weather and the Words depicts the poet John Newlove's life. Newlove's letters are a record not just of one person's...  Read More >>

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By Heart or From the Scroll studies six grammatika vases depicting scenes from the Odyssey, offering new insights...  Read More >>

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Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas:...  Read More >>

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  Read More >>

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