Literature: history & criticism books

This book examines the relationship between music and emotion in the Caroline theatre. Music could be ravishing,...  Read More >>

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Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies...  Read More >>

The first book-length exploration of femflash fanfiction and its implications for wider fan communities, this text...  Read More >>

The first study to focus on how current aesthetic and methodological shifts in contemporary performance practices...  Read More >>

Postcolonial theory and its bedfellow, decolonial theory, are the most flourishing products of academia in recent...  Read More >>

In Print for the Pocket, Madeline Zehnder examines how nineteenth-century Americans understood a common but often...  Read More >>

Administration and Economy in Early Babylonian Society unlocks 4,000-year-old business records from Mesopotamia,...  Read More >>

Blood of Others offers a cultural history of Crimea and the Black Sea region, one of Europe's most volatile flashpoints,...  Read More >>

A world shaped by passion, duty, and the weight of unspoken choices unfolds in these pages. At its heart lies...  Read More >>

Aurora Floyd's story weaves passion, peril, and the pursuit of truth into a rich tapestry of intrigue. Beneath...  Read More >>

萤火虫之恋，大学生的经历更是文革的缩影  Read More >>

Acclaimed author and translator Sophus Helle considers an ancient creation story with themes of humanity, class...  Read More >>

An examination of the representation of female identity, creativity and power at the intersections of drama, literature,...  Read More >>

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As writing and language teachers, we recognize the difference immediately; an event has occurred, and a new subject...  Read More >>

Explores the historical and cultural dimensions of Jerusalem through the lens of world literature and art.  Read More >>

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction’s power to intervene in the social, political, and environmental...  Read More >>

This collection contains four plays by contemporary Korean playwright Myung-Wha Kim - the first translated collection...  Read More >>

Exploring Romantic writers' free and imaginative confrontation with eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century scientific...  Read More >>

The perfect gift for the Shakespeare fan, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is an elegant edition boasting...  Read More >>

This is the first book to identify and trace a theme of old age running throughout T.S. Eliot’s oeuvre. Previously...  Read More >>

Before I’m Dead is a funny, furious and deeply human play exploring grief and what it truly means to see another...  Read More >>

Banished dukes, mistaken identities, and witty lovers meet in the Forest of Arden in Shakespeare's sparkling pastoral...  Read More >>

This Element investigates the challenges and possibilities of writing histories of trauma. It explores how the historiography...  Read More >>