Literature: history & criticism books

A thought-provoking new assessment of this important Greek dramatic text by a major scholar.  Read More >>

Establishing the existence of a category of poems from the Modernist and contemporary periods which give agency...  Read More >>

The first to systematically examine Waugh’s relationship with cinema in the context of modernism, this book examines...  Read More >>

This updated edition explores the birth of psychoanalysis alongside fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. It discusses...  Read More >>

A renowned Brontë scholar and dress historian’s innovative, richly illustrated biography explores Charlotte Brontë's...  Read More >>

This book explores the nexus between religion and literature by examining central developments in J.M. Coetzee’s...  Read More >>

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Grief Work as Autotheory is an interdisciplinary, narrative non-fiction book that tests the boundaries between experimental...  Read More >>

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This Element provides an analysis of digital mystery game narratives through the lens of game studies approaches,...  Read More >>

This volume offers a new reading of Macrobius' place in late antique literary history with an exploration of the...  Read More >>

An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

This Element adopts a holistic approach to the processing of colours in language and literature, weaving together...  Read More >>

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The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

Five Sundays. Five strangers. One mystery drug. What could go wrong?  Read More >>

This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth...  Read More >>

This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenistaliterary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation...  Read More >>

An intimate collection of poems about mothers and daughters, female friendship, and memory. Rebecca Hart Olander's...  Read More >>

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A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse...  Read More >>

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Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American...  Read More >>

The Ecstasy of Reproduction is a piercing analysis of contemporaneity which the author still terms postmodernity....  Read More >>

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