Literature: history & criticism books

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The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

Five Sundays. Five strangers. One mystery drug. What could go wrong?  Read More >>

A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse...  Read More >>

The Ecstasy of Reproduction is a piercing analysis of contemporaneity which the author still terms postmodernity....  Read More >>

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Set against the backdrop of escalating environmental collapse, this novel is a timely exploration of the terrifying...  Read More >>

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

A powerful testament to writing as an act of beauty and rebellion that speaks truth and condemns violent legacies...  Read More >>

Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions,...  Read More >>

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American...  Read More >>

A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse...  Read More >>

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By examining cultural texts of a variety of genres, this volume brings to light notable transformations in the Mediterranean...  Read More >>

An intriguing investigation of how aging, place, and care intersect in the newly emerging genre of the care home...  Read More >>

This series of ten volumes presents a decade-by-decade account of how literature developed in Britain throughout...  Read More >>

Challenges the myths about apathy and smugness surrounding British literature of the period.  Read More >>

Examines the significance of the Faustian pact in international law  Read More >>

A wide-ranging intellectual history of the life, death, and afterlife of the Critical Legal Studies Movement  Read More >>

Explores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred...  Read More >>

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature  Read More >>

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the...  Read More >>

Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century  Read More >>