Literature: history & criticism books

Créée en 1802 pour défendre Paris contre les excès de son peuple, la garde républicaine a muté à la fin du 19ème...  Read More >>

La monarchie de Juillet (1830-1848) existe depuis 8 ans et 7 mois quand Alexis de Tocqueville devient député pour...  Read More >>

Écrivain et penseur, figure éminente des luttes pour les droits civiques aux États-Unis, James Baldwin (1924-1987)...  Read More >>

En mars 1943, alors qu'il se croit à l'abri en zone libre avec...  Read More >>

Cette étude porte sur la production poétique tardive d'Yves Bonnefoy, en analysant notamment ses dernières oeuvres,...  Read More >>

À la fin des années quatre-vingt, les vétérans des essais nucléaires commencèrent à se demander si leurs maladies...  Read More >>

Le 26 juillet 1914, Henri Soudé, un Orléanais de souche, commence à tenir des cahiers au jour le jour. Il raconte...  Read More >>

Cet essai explore la vie et l'héritage d'Olympe de Gouges sous une lumière particulière: celle d'une femme libre,...  Read More >>

E. A. Wallis Budge's ""The Egyptian Heaven and Hell, Volume II"" delves deeper into the rich tapestry of ancient...  Read More >>

E. A. Wallis Budge's ""The Egyptian Heaven and Hell, Volume II"" delves deeper into the rich tapestry of ancient...  Read More >>

E. A. Wallis Budge's ""The Egyptian Heaven and Hell, Volume II"" delves deeper into the rich tapestry of ancient...  Read More >>

Six masterful introductory lessons that demystify the novel and help readers master the art of fiction in clear,...  Read More >>

Ultimately, Tales for Fairies not only reveals the long-standing compatibility between queerness and the fairy tale...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde's Paris explores Wilde's connection with the French capital from his rise to fame to his eventual exile...  Read More >>

Echoes of the Past offers a cross-media analysis of how the Carinthian Slovene community in Austria has commemorated...  Read More >>

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

Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the...  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 >>

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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 >>