Literature: history & criticism books

Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing...  Read More >>

As one among few studies of Indian Ocean literature, this book will benefit scholars and students in humanistic...  Read More >>

Demonstrates William James's role in the history of Anglo-American literary production and the practice of literary...  Read More >>

Professors, high school teachers, novelists, anti-censorship advocates, and librarians confront and examine the...  Read More >>

Offers literary histories and analyses of different genres in African literature and verbal arts. The genres covered...  Read More >>

Before gothic villains stalked industrialising Britain, spectres were haunting British plantations in the 'New World'....  Read More >>

Academic discourse on eyes has focused overwhelmingly on their visual function. Weeping Eyes turns instead to their...  Read More >>

Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary...  Read More >>

What was the role of insects in defining the human during the British eighteenth century? Through close ecocritical...  Read More >>

Presents authoritative, annotated versions of major stories and essays from three late eighteenth-century American...  Read More >>

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Join Katie and Body on their quest traversing forgiveness, beauty and whales as they ask: what does care look like...  Read More >>

The essential companion to Toni Morrison's work, written by Namwali Serpell, 'one of the most innovative and intelligent...  Read More >>

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Identifies how ""dangerous"" 1980s heavy metal can be analyzed through literary criticism, how heavy metal helps...  Read More >>

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