Literature: history & criticism books

A renowned Brontë scholar and dress historian’s innovative, richly illustrated biography explores Charlotte Brontë's...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary study of the literary representation and exploration of emotions and moral values in German...  Read More >>

Rediscover the capital through the eyes of the Queen of Crime  Read More >>

This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth...  Read More >>

This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenistaliterary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Five Sundays. Five strangers. One mystery drug. What could go wrong?  Read More >>

An intimate collection of poems about mothers and daughters, female friendship, and memory. Rebecca Hart Olander's...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse...  Read More >>

The Ecstasy of Reproduction is a piercing analysis of contemporaneity which the author still terms postmodernity....  Read More >>

Set against the backdrop of escalating environmental collapse, this novel is a timely exploration of the terrifying...  Read More >>

A powerful testament to writing as an act of beauty and rebellion that speaks truth and condemns violent legacies...  Read More >>

Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions,...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

Set during the civil wars of 19th-century Yorubaland, Crown of Blood is a powerful retelling of the classic Macbeth....  Read More >>

A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse...  Read More >>

Bloke of All Ages offers refreshing new insights into the works of one of South Africa’s most important literary,...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

By examining cultural texts of a variety of genres, this volume brings to light notable transformations in the Mediterranean...  Read More >>

This series of ten volumes presents a decade-by-decade account of how literature developed in Britain throughout...  Read More >>

Challenges the myths about apathy and smugness surrounding British literature of the period.  Read More >>

Examines the significance of the Faustian pact in international law  Read More >>