Literature: history & criticism books

Provides a nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national'...  Read More >>

Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nationstate, modernity and tradition.  Read More >>

Explores the intricately crafted rhetorical strategies used by al-Jahiz in his letters.  Read More >>

Investigates the semantic permutations of 'homeness' in post-war diasporic Anglophone Lebanese novels.  Read More >>

Argues that Victorian literature uses traces of a lingering past to theorise time as non-progressive and discontinuous...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of the essential role Switzerland played in Charles Dickens's imagination  Read More >>

Articulates life writing's complex engagement with the nineteenth-century literary market  Read More >>

Takes a geographical/spatial approach to Beirut to understand how the city is imagined in 16 modern Arabic novels....  Read More >>

Provides both scholars and general readers of African American poetry with a comprehensive history written by the...  Read More >>

A definitive account of newspaper and periodical press history across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales covering...  Read More >>

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This book provides a new translation of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's novel he Return of Munchausen, with an extensive...  Read More >>

The series Cross-Cultural Philology brings together key studies and results from the Cluster of Excellence 'Cross-Cultural...  Read More >>

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The study of classical Latin literature has long suffered from an idealized isolation, treated by subsequent centuries...  Read More >>

This book explores how Virgil uses his three major works to construct a systematic, evolving discourse on the nature...  Read More >>

The transition from the fractured, blood-soaked decades of the Late Roman Republic to the nascent stability of the...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

Scholarly essays examine the enduring allure of Arthurian legends—from medieval texts to modern adaptations across...  Read More >>

An innovative teaching guide reinterprets an ancient epic by linking its Bronze Age roots to contemporary issues...  Read More >>

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Part memoir, part literary history, Ground to Stand On offers vivid testimony of the tenacity of the first generations...  Read More >>

Brings together Arthur Conan Doyle's Egyptian-themed works, based on his imperial travels.  Read More >>

William Sterrell, a professor at Oxford, published as William Shakespeare. Examined closely are Venus and Adonis...  Read More >>