Literature: history & criticism books

This book demonstrates how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and...  Read More >>

Mining unexplored discourses of pain in New England literary texts, this book shows how pain was central in shaping...  Read More >>

An indispensable scholarly resource offering an account of the critical history of one of Shakespeare's major tragedies....  Read More >>

A study of the notion of absent leadership and the methods used to govern Rome by politicians and leaders during...  Read More >>

Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as ""hermaphrodites"",...  Read More >>

Examines lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world...  Read More >>

Presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigré translators whose work during the Cold War actively...  Read More >>

Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation,...  Read More >>

Postcolonial theory and its bedfellow, decolonial theory, are the most flourishing products of academia in recent...  Read More >>

This book examines the complex and often turbulent relationship between Scotland and England from the early eighteenth...  Read More >>

This Palgrave Companion brings together original essays by leading scholars to explore the multifaceted work of...  Read More >>

Administration and Economy in Early Babylonian Society unlocks 4,000-year-old business records from Mesopotamia,...  Read More >>

This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between music and emotion in the Caroline theatre. Music could be ravishing,...  Read More >>

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The first book-length exploration of femflash fanfiction and its implications for wider fan communities, this text...  Read More >>

The first study to focus on how current aesthetic and methodological shifts in contemporary performance practices...  Read More >>

In Print for the Pocket, Madeline Zehnder examines how nineteenth-century Americans understood a common but often...  Read More >>

Blood of Others offers a cultural history of Crimea and the Black Sea region, one of Europe's most volatile flashpoints,...  Read More >>

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A world shaped by passion, duty, and the weight of unspoken choices unfolds in these pages. At its heart lies...  Read More >>

Aurora Floyd's story weaves passion, peril, and the pursuit of truth into a rich tapestry of intrigue. Beneath...  Read More >>

萤火虫之恋，大学生的经历更是文革的缩影  Read More >>

Acclaimed author and translator Sophus Helle considers an ancient creation story with themes of humanity, class...  Read More >>

An examination of the representation of female identity, creativity and power at the intersections of drama, literature,...  Read More >>