Literature: history & criticism books

Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

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The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian...  Read More >>

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This Dover original anthology explores how six authors, including Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde, represented the...  Read More >>

A richly imagined, physically charged poetry collection in which history, myth, and protest are transformed into...  Read More >>

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural...  Read More >>

A profound journey through the psyche unfolds, merging prose and poetry to explore themes of ego death, resilience,...  Read More >>

A young mother, her infant son and a Catholic priest are all murdered by a delusional young man.  Read More >>

A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development...  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies,...  Read More >>

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings still resonate with pressing societal issues. This collection...  Read More >>

Two South Asian elders meet each other in a Type 2 diabetes workshop but find themselves navigating the sparks of...  Read More >>

Life Before You, a fierce and unflinching new play by Eva Hudson, lays bare the fault lines between mothers and...  Read More >>

The Human Voice by Darren Murphy is a radical reimagining of Jean Cocteau’s classic play La Voix Humaine.  Read More >>

With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora....  Read More >>

Mary Shelley's The Last Man is a novel set in the aftermath of climate disaster and a war between Greece and Turkey...  Read More >>

The story of two missionary priests, travelling through the American Southwest in the aftermath of the Mexican American...  Read More >>

Contrary to popular belief, the goal of science fiction (SF) is not the prediction of the future, but rather to...  Read More >>

This book traces the origins of using sea journeys to treat mental illness, a practice recommended within the medical...  Read More >>

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