Literature: history & criticism books

'The Sound of the Past' collects nine essays on the topic of Modernism and its relationship to past histories, literatures,...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking collection gathers essays, poems, and hybrid...  Read More >>

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This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the...  Read More >>

Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga examines the relationship between music and literary works within...  Read More >>

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Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

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

Since its founding, the United States has colonized more than five hundred Indigenous nations in North America and...  Read More >>

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

The latest volume in our new Fantagraphics Atlas Creator Collection focuses on the feverishly imaginative Bill Everett's...  Read More >>

The iconic Renaissance songbook–an inspiration to love poets since the fourteenth century–in an elegant, fluid and...  Read More >>

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This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

The Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about...  Read More >>

The definitive introduction to Queer Theory for anyone looking to understand its key terms, concepts, debates, and...  Read More >>

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This is a wide-ranging account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental...  Read More >>

Cormorant is the natural and cultural history of a 'greedy' bird that is hated across the world and the object of...  Read More >>

Delving into his biological imagery, Tara Lee shows how Blake articulates radical views about spirituality and embodiment,...  Read More >>

An exploration of the ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their own to...  Read More >>

This book delves into modernism, addressing its intricate relationship with the socio-political, philosophical,...  Read More >>

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies’ Home Journal to Vogue this diverse...  Read More >>

This book uses the medium of film to explore poetic history as a subtle form of psychology expressed within Islamic...  Read More >>