Literature: history & criticism books

Based on two decades of original research and exclusive access to unpublished material, a ground-breaking biography...  Read More >>

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How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

""An account of the endangerment and survival of utopian fiction in the 21st century, and how they can provide a...  Read More >>

Tangential Terrains is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of Black women writers in the official journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church  Read More >>

Examines how challenged texts open windows, mirrors, and sliding doors into diverse human experiences while cultivating...  Read More >>

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

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This book is a study of the impact of nineteenth-century popular literature on its contemporary society as well...  Read More >>

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

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How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet examines the lives and sacrifices of his foremothers in his most personal collection...  Read More >>

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The essays in Mezukak Shivatayim pay tribute to Bernard Septimus’s writing and teaching, covering rabbinic culture,...  Read More >>

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

'A landmark book that will redefine Nakahara's place on the international stage.' Paul Perry, novelist and poet...  Read More >>

How Shakespeare's exploration of central human questions about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare and the Senses explores how audiences of Shakespeare’s time would have understood the sensual world...  Read More >>

Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries...  Read More >>

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Nagisa Natsunagi was enjoying her daily routine with her two best friends, finally living out her dream of being...  Read More >>

A panoramic, non-Eurocentric view of theatre history that emphasizes the variety of connections among the world's...  Read More >>