Literature: history & criticism books

The authoritative guide to the singular career and artistic legacy of one of America's most celebrated playwrights,...  Read More >>

Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between...  Read More >>

In this uplifting picture book, a young Black girl’s identities converge at the Women’s March, helping her find...  Read More >>

This book presents the first extensive English study and translation of the poetry of Jahan Malek Khatun, a fourteenth-century...  Read More >>

This open access book offers an array of educational perspectives aimed at fostering inclusive, multicultural, critical,...  Read More >>

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This book addresses the issue of migration to and from Ireland since the 17th-18th century and examines the dynamics...  Read More >>

""An English-language translation from German of the literary theorist Rainer Nèagele's concise collection of 8...  Read More >>

""Forced by Circumstance gathers foundational essays by, and interviews with, Norma Alarcon, noted scholar of Chicana/o,...  Read More >>

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""Traces the long history of skepticism and unbelief in Christianity and Western culture that leads to Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

""The Novel Experience makes a plea and offers a methodology for reclaiming and recentering the reading experience...  Read More >>

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston,...  Read More >>

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La portentosa Vida de la Muerte del franciscano Joaquín de Bolaños apareció por primera vez en México en 1792. Desde...  Read More >>

This book explores how monsters articulate questions about the sacred in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature....  Read More >>

Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography, this collection charts an unprecedented...  Read More >>

Going against the grain, this refreshing book argues for a non-ideological portrait of the Enlightenment as having...  Read More >>

""Traces the long history of skepticism and unbelief in Christianity and Western culture that leads to Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

""The Novel Experience makes a plea and offers a methodology for reclaiming and recentering the reading experience...  Read More >>

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""An English-language translation from German of the literary theorist Rainer Nèagele's concise collection of 8...  Read More >>

This collection includes three stories written between 1927 and 1930. They cover a range of themes, from an allegory...  Read More >>

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