Literature: history & criticism books

An edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in...  Read More >>

Jacopo Passavanti is a complete English translation of Jacopo Passavanti's summa on penitence that explores sin,...  Read More >>

A collection of essays that examines literature in seven languages from across the Islamic world and explores the...  Read More >>

A transformative lens revealing the historical racial context that profoundly influenced European fairy tales. Engaging...  Read More >>

The diverse forms and structures of graphic narratives discussed in this volume by a range of international scholars...  Read More >>

Detailed historical context, biographies of each writer, and evocative illustrations support this meaningful collection...  Read More >>

A landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life In this groundbreaking literary...  Read More >>

A surprising look at how American writers envision a more equitable healthcare system In the United States,...  Read More >>

What happens to human reading when AI bots can do it for us? Explosive developments in artificial intelligence...  Read More >>

Das Kempowski-Jahrbuch versammelt nicht nur aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu jeweils einem bestimmten Thema, sondern...  Read More >>

Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the “civilized,” and...  Read More >>

A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels  Read More >>

How collaboration between creators, editors, artists, and fans drives the creation, evolution, and enduring impact...  Read More >>

Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms...  Read More >>

A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco’s greatest writers Appearing for the first time in...  Read More >>

Showing how poetry and art articulate forms of life beyond settler colonialism.  Read More >>

From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection...  Read More >>

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  Read More >>

The book explores how Catholicism operates in Seamus Heaney's poetry at the level of a felt sense. It is written...  Read More >>

In Other Words, the definitive translation coursebook for three decades, offers practical guidance based on linguistic...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of the classical influence on Hungarian culture in the 19th and 20th century, exploring issues...  Read More >>

""The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

With seemingly obsessive regularity, American authors, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, evoke the...  Read More >>

Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of...  Read More >>

Through an extensive series of extracts and accompanying interpretative and contextual essays, this open access...  Read More >>