Literature: history & criticism books

A guide to reading, writing and appreciating poetry - the fun and easy way. Advice is given on how to polish and...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

An outrageously witty tragicomedy-of-manners about a queer black teenager coming of age, introduced by Mendez, author...  Read More >>

Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthology The Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology—a...  Read More >>

This volume offers new perspectives on Emerson in relation to his contemporary moment; his religious and spiritual...  Read More >>

The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive history of Haitian literature published in the English language. It offers crucial...  Read More >>

This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way...  Read More >>

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Après Les Écrivains voyageurs, l'auteur consacre ce nouvel ouvrage aux voyageuses écrivaines, ces femmes qui, du...  Read More >>

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

Private, previously unpublished conversations between the author and one of the twentieth century's greatest dramatists...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

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A gripping family mystery that reveals how hidden pasts shape our present and transform our future. Bohdana is...  Read More >>

A collection of poems that explores transformation, dissolution, and renewal—and how language itself can become...  Read More >>

This volume offers new perspectives on Emerson in relation to his contemporary moment; his religious and spiritual...  Read More >>

The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection...  Read More >>

This volume illustrates Asian speculative fiction's potential to interrogate and inspire humanity's ecological and...  Read More >>

A bold and tender portrait of family, identity, and truth in the North Bronx. Through narrative poems and innovative...  Read More >>

A bilingual collection of exquisite poems and prose by one of Fernando Pessoa’s most famous “heteronyms”, Ricardo...  Read More >>

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

This volume compiles critical essays that explore the evolution of progressive poetry in India from the 1920s onwards....  Read More >>

Surreal and dreamlike poems that chronicle the pleasures, pains, and anxieties of life. John Cross's WHAT BLEAK...  Read More >>