Literature: history & criticism books

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly...  Read More >>

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Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American...  Read More >>

From Sarajevo to Tunisia to Rome, these five plays trace the invisible scars of exile, where memory and identity...  Read More >>

A meticulously curated reference aid streamlines the exploration of vital contemporary literature through rigorous...  Read More >>

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Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

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Explores a key moment in Brazilian modernism, supplemented with primary texts by Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari,...  Read More >>

Get It While It's Hot brings together scholars, food writers, influencers, and even a CEO to discuss the phenomenon...  Read More >>

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

In Queer Forms and Pronouns, author Lena Mattheis explores gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in Anglophone literature...  Read More >>

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

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This cross-cultural study explores and redefines what philosophy, philosophizing, and philosophers are through the...  Read More >>

Analyzing the stylistic innovations most characteristic in pivotal works of literary realism, Prosaic Times shows...  Read More >>

The first collection to engage with “Instapoetry,” this book explores the aesthetics and ideologies of the 21st...  Read More >>

A concise and readable study into the role of adaptation in the form of musical theatre, drawing on contemporary...  Read More >>

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

A thorough examination of four Peruvian intellectuals who found inspiration in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's work...  Read More >>

Ensayos para docentes exploran la amplia obra de Benito Pérez Galdós, abarcando novelas, cuentos, teatro y periodismo....  Read More >>

Camus on Justice investigates Albert Camus's rich and overlooked theory about the relationship between the absurd,...  Read More >>

Investigating the material imprint of water on thought itself Water Logics examines the epistemological adjustments...  Read More >>

Explores a key moment in Brazilian modernism, supplemented with primary texts by Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari,...  Read More >>