Literature: history & criticism books

The Resurrection of Villiers de lʼIsle-Adam, by Léon Bloy, originally published in 1906, 15 years after Villiersʼ...  Read More >>

Dans cet essai éclairant, Alfred de Vigny aborde avec finesse et conviction la question de la propriété littéraire,...  Read More >>

Parmi les foyers de libéralisme religieux qui font rayonner leur action, depuis quelques années, avec une intensité...  Read More >>

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This book has made every effort to include informative and useful articles that can also fulfill the duty of providing...  Read More >>

The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and...  Read More >>

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Close reading is an essential skill that literature students develop across the full length of their studies. This...  Read More >>

""I'm enriched and uplifted by Steve Edington's intelligent meditations on Jack Kerouac. With warmth and insight,...  Read More >>

In Awakening of a Soldier: F.O.I Styles, James Kenneth Ward delivers a gripping and deeply human story of transformation,...  Read More >>

Poetry is necessary because it transforms suffering into significance. Pain is universal, grief unavoidable, loss...  Read More >>

A smart, funny, loving defence and celebration of romantic fiction! For the romance fans and romance-curious readers...  Read More >>

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers twenty-four case studies of mainstream and...  Read More >>

Originally published in Italian in 1965, A Test of Powers was immediately seen as one of the central texts of Italian...  Read More >>

A joyful and enlightening masterclass in how reading attentively can change our lives As an English literature...  Read More >>

This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century....  Read More >>

This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new...  Read More >>

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How can anyone doubt that the world's greatest playwright wrote the plays attributed to him? William Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

The series focuses on the evolution of Jewish language, literature, communal life and religious ideology outside...  Read More >>

What motivated Milton? Tobias Gregory advances a new paradigm for Milton's shifting priorities, arguing that, at...  Read More >>

A chapbook of new and selected mother poems by celebrated poet Li-Young Lee. I Ask My Mother to Sing contains five...  Read More >>

Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws...  Read More >>