Literature: history & criticism books

Magic can’t fix bad economics—discover why the wizarding world is still stuck in the Dark Ages! Discover the Shocking...  Read More >>

""No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."" Washington Post...  Read More >>

A posthumous collection of beloved and never-before-read stories from a titan of contemporary Southern fiction  Read More >>

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This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

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An exploration of Stephen King's writing from the first academic granted full access to King's archives.  Read More >>

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to...  Read More >>

An exploration of how comics illuminate medicine, religion, and identity  Read More >>

Interviews that illuminate a life shaped by jazz, history, and verse  Read More >>

Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, J. T....  Read More >>

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This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical...  Read More >>

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Exploring intricate links among aesthetics, anthropology, and political economy, this work examines cultural production...  Read More >>

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The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  Read More >>

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition...  Read More >>

An instant cult classic that remains deeply relevant today: both an incisive and funny travelogue and a revealing...  Read More >>

Explores the intersections of print, writing, and media in early American literary cultures Print Technologies...  Read More >>

Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology examines five female-authored novelizations of The Tempest,...  Read More >>

The Delirium Archive is a world premiere by Shane Mac an Bhaird. It is about family, and the intangible love technology...  Read More >>

Please Please Me is the electrifying story of The Beatles’ meteoric rise and the hidden struggles of their beloved...  Read More >>

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