Literature: history & criticism books

The Problem with the Seventh Year is a bloody, unflinching drama about the fine line between being clever and being...  Read More >>

In the fascinating narrative of ""Unifying Theory,"" James W. Jenkins takes readers on a powerful journey into the...  Read More >>

A timely, moving, and piercingly intelligent essay collection from one of our finest contemporary writers For thirty...  Read More >>

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A thoughtful compilation that chronicles a nearly fifty-year friendship with the renowned Mississippi writer  Read More >>

Now in paperback , A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces...  Read More >>

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Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific, broadly the Austronesian world, is home to considerable language diversity....  Read More >>

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With language flush with and supercharged by Eros, Carey Salerno's third book is a poet's elegy to her uterus, her...  Read More >>

This book explores the widespread fascination with world creation among early twentieth century artists, and examines...  Read More >>

Incisive, funny, and deeply-researched – the ultimate tribute to Jane Austen Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts!...  Read More >>

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Written in a clear and accessible style, Stylistics, Third Edition is a comprehensive resource which covers all...  Read More >>

Victorians and Videogames will examine how games interact with 19th Century genres, aesthetics, and literary themes...  Read More >>

This book, the first introductory work of Literary Geography Studies in China, justifies literary geography as a...  Read More >>

Black Sheep is a razor-sharp psalm about the county of Norfolk, tracing the dilemmas facing farming succession....  Read More >>

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is a powerful nineteenth-century autobiography tracing Thomas De Quincey's...  Read More >>

Discover the radical ideas that shaped American thought In this landmark collection, Ralph Waldo Emerson challenges...  Read More >>

In Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, 16 years pass between the end of Act III and the beginning of Act IV. Madonna...  Read More >>

What does the Book of Revelation tell us-and how does art play a part in it? In Craig Speakman's debut, page through...  Read More >>

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