Literature: history & criticism books

A COMPANION TO THE GLOBAL RENAISSANCE An innovative collection of original essays providing an expansive picture...  Read More >>

A scholarly and experimental collection that offers fresh insight—with a feminist focus—into the often overlooked...  Read More >>

This new edition includes a foreword by critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith, as well as an exclusive...  Read More >>

Explore the rise and fall of pre-Code comics with 500 covers revealing America's cultural shifts, censorship, and...  Read More >>

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Award-winning British playwright Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage and his extensive experience...  Read More >>

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Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to...  Read More >>

A monograph on the rich and complex history of postcolonial literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia, examining...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their...  Read More >>

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A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays between 1560-1670 that were performed in private...  Read More >>

A Salon-in-Exile explores the translation of the salon from France to England in the late-17th century via the first...  Read More >>

Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African,...  Read More >>

Uses case studies from 20th-century German literature and theory to explore the material, social, economic, and...  Read More >>

This volume offers new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy of desire, a...  Read More >>

The book argues that Ian McDonald’s globalized science fiction functions as a complex, hybrid fusion of magic realism...  Read More >>

This book uncovers how knowledge was transmitted and transformed in 18th-century Britain, using digital tools to...  Read More >>

A critical and theoretical interpretation of six major modern Persian poets and the idea of a homeland, by Hamid...  Read More >>

How mobility and its impediment serve as frameworks for expressions of political dissent in cultural production...  Read More >>

Award-winning British playwright Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage and his extensive experience...  Read More >>

The Third Doctor: Earthbound Defender of Time is a powerful, in-depth exploration of Jon Pertwee's groundbreaking...  Read More >>

Learning Chinese characters (汉字 hànzì) often feels like unlocking a secret code-but what if the key was hidden in...  Read More >>

Learning Chinese characters (汉字 hànzì) often feels like unlocking a secret code-but what if the key was hidden in...  Read More >>

What happens when strangers meet in film? The Cinema of Converging Lives explores a group of films within an important...  Read More >>