Literature: history & criticism books

A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood....  Read More >>

A thorough examination of four Peruvian intellectuals who found inspiration in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's work...  Read More >>

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A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  Read More >>

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

Furious Harvests, a collection of striking poetry by Alex Averbuch, explores existential questions that war raises:...  Read More >>

Camus on Justice investigates Albert Camus's rich and overlooked theory about the relationship between the absurd,...  Read More >>

Exposes writers' reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history  Read More >>

Considers relationships between modernist literature and literary criticism and argues that new modernist fiction...  Read More >>

Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead  Read More >>

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

""The Story of the Peony Lantern"" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347–1433) traveled across lingual, cultural, and...  Read More >>

The lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers' life writing Paper Heroines studies the...  Read More >>

When you pick up the latest Emily Henry novel, or settle in for an evening with the newest volume of your favorite...  Read More >>

Galicia as a Literary Idea explores the relationship of Jewish tradition and modernity in literary works by Joseph...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

Vocabulario y enseñanza del español delves into the nature and acquisition of vocabulary, its relevance to linguistic...  Read More >>

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Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of Black women writers in the official journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church  Read More >>

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story...  Read More >>

Examines US-Mexico borderland representations in horror films, TV series and comics.  Read More >>

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

Ellen McLarney explores how writers in the Black Arts Movement identified with Islam as integral to the African...  Read More >>