Literature: history & criticism books

Will appeal to scholars, students, and general audiences interested in American history, religion, and reform before...  Read More >>

Academic discourse on eyes has focused overwhelmingly on their visual function. Weeping Eyes turns instead to their...  Read More >>

Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary...  Read More >>

What was the role of insects in defining the human during the British eighteenth century? Through close ecocritical...  Read More >>

An accurate and poetic translation of Paul Claudel’s Cinq Grandes Odes (1907), with detailed commentary introducing...  Read More >>

Presents authoritative, annotated versions of major stories and essays from three late eighteenth-century American...  Read More >>

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The essential companion to Toni Morrison's work, written by Namwali Serpell, 'one of the most innovative and intelligent...  Read More >>

This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular...  Read More >>

A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social...  Read More >>

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First published in 1914, Joseph Conrad's female-centred, uncharacteristically optimistic Chance represented a new...  Read More >>

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Join Katie and Body on their quest traversing forgiveness, beauty and whales as they ask: what does care look like...  Read More >>

Books for Development analyzes how governmental and non-governmental actors deployed books as instruments of development...  Read More >>

Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee offers a revelatory volume of ecstatic poems that search out divine voices in the silences...  Read More >>

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