Literature: history & criticism books

Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

Examines US-Mexico borderland representations in horror films, TV series and comics.  Read More >>

Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries....  Read More >>

Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern...  Read More >>

If ever a play had something to say about the art of statesmanship, that play is Sir Thomas More. Its origins and...  Read More >>

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

An indispensable resource for scholars and students of James Joyce, Joyce Studies Annual gathers essays by foremost...  Read More >>

In a complete collection of works by one of Malaysia’s foundational poets, Wong confronts the struggles of cultural...  Read More >>

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

The lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers' life writing Paper Heroines studies the...  Read More >>

Centuries of conflict in the Italian peninsula yield to the rise of the House of Savoy, whose strategic marriages,...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Vocabulario y enseñanza del español delves into the nature and acquisition of vocabulary, its relevance to linguistic...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

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The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizing A robust...  Read More >>

Galicia as a Literary Idea explores the relationship of Jewish tradition and modernity in literary works by Joseph...  Read More >>

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This book presents a systematic and detailed analysis of Caspian linguistics, contributing new perspectives to Western...  Read More >>

This book targets a cluster of darknesses in a century that, in the wake of the Romantic euphoria for the nocturnal,...  Read More >>

McCrae's latest collection considers the nature of perception and experiments with form and punctuation. This...  Read More >>

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In this survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, seasoned Joyceans introduce the methodologies that...  Read More >>

Bringing together nineteen essays from leading specialists in poetics and American music, this collection offers...  Read More >>