Literature: history & criticism books

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The way in which the spectator responds to the song and how narrative, lyrics, music, mise-en-scenes, all come together...  Read More >>

Embrace a new, more community-centered era of book clubs and make reading a shared experience! Book clubs aren’t...  Read More >>

Dilapidated dramas. The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with Marcus Pacuvius...  Read More >>

A beloved nature poet reflects on environmental change, political transformation, and the ineluctable fact of aging....  Read More >>

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Nicole M. Morris Johnson analyzes the intertwined relationship between movement and writing in the works of Zora...  Read More >>

A wildly imaginative new play by Noah Diaz that traces the hilarious and deeply moving saga of one man's illness...  Read More >>

How the classic aesthetic of 1960s pulp comics influenced art, culture, and politics.  Read More >>

Whether you're a lifelong book lover or a curious traveller, this guide is the perfect companion to discovering...  Read More >>

A gripping and emotionally resonant saga that traces the lives of five generations of resilient women from the late...  Read More >>

George Orwell: His Life and Legacy by Robert Colls is an intellectual biography which offers an original account...  Read More >>

In an era marked by dizzying technological advances, material excess, and relentless distractions, the call to pause,...  Read More >>

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville...  Read More >>

Marcus Aurelius's Meditations offers timeless Stoic wisdom on virtue, resilience, and inner peace-private reflections...  Read More >>

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) recounts the life of a solitary composer, Adrian Leverkühn, whose personal and...  Read More >>

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This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912,...  Read More >>

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing is the first dedicated study of British and Irish...  Read More >>

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and...  Read More >>

Henry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional...  Read More >>