Literature: history & criticism books

An examination of how artists use comics to challenge dominant portrayals and reclaim narrative control, positioning...  Read More >>

A close look into systemic violence against women in French society through various forms of rebellion, both real...  Read More >>

An examination of evolving ideas about British citizenship in Romantic fiction in the proto-bureaucratic conditions...  Read More >>

Looking at experimental disability poetry, this book shows how poets from the 1960s to the present develop disability-informed...  Read More >>

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During the 21st century, the collective hero has emerged as the defining archetype in media, reflecting shifts in...  Read More >>

The Mabinogion Setis a book about the most famous of medieval Welsh stories: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi....  Read More >>

Offers a unique perspective to medieval femininity and spirituality through the lens of trauma present within The...  Read More >>

A study of four plays by Tony Kushner that are most political and pertinent for our time  Read More >>

Introducing the Medieval Bear examines how medieval people represented bears across virtually every written source...  Read More >>

'¿Invisibles? Trans-identidades en la España contemporánea' analiza la experiencia, corporeidad, identidad y representación...  Read More >>

Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship...  Read More >>

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

Glimmering meditations on time, memory, imprisonment, human connection, life and death by the preeminent Italian...  Read More >>

More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state...  Read More >>

The voices of Jewish women have always been here. Now they are heard. Kol Isha: The Women Speak is a ritual...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the...  Read More >>

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Examining culture and history from the early nineteenth century to the present, Horizons of Catastrophe in the American...  Read More >>

Poems inspired by the strong women in award-winning poet Amit Majmudar's life, celebrating the influence and energy...  Read More >>

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

Gothic London: Occult Societies and Ghostly Whispers is the first in depth study of the capital and its gothic and...  Read More >>

Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution...  Read More >>

The internet has enabled new forms of literature and challenged older forms to reinvent themselves. Between Novel...  Read More >>

Places Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world and investigates...  Read More >>