Literature: history & criticism books

In Where Shadows Speak, Folajimi Oyebola pulls back the curtain on the quiet, invisible machinery of racial bias....  Read More >>

Discover the transformative power of words that resonate with your soul, inspiring you to embrace your unique essence...  Read More >>

With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Joseph Ashmore argues that early modern literature became a key site for handling questions of faith during the...  Read More >>

Laura Fox Gill sheds new light on Milton's afterlives in a multimedia age, expanding our understanding of literary...  Read More >>

This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary...  Read More >>

An investigation of the specific uses of the motif of melancholy in modern Kurdish novels  Read More >>

This volume explores the evolution of Arab women's self-representations in literature, highlighting their resistance...  Read More >>

This seventh collection by acclaimed poet Susan Stewart offers a meditation on difficulty and the powers of nature....  Read More >>

A look into how Anglo masculinities weaponize forms of violence to bolster U.S. interests and expand borders, establishing...  Read More >>

She wakes to a map she doesn't remember drawing... and a life she can't recall living. In Tales of Virillia:...  Read More >>

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell shared one of the most remarkable literary friendships of the 19th century,...  Read More >>

Was zeichnet preisgekröntes Storytelling in Videospielen aus? Dieses essential analysiert 50 ausgezeichnete Titel...  Read More >>

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Brings together Maggie Humm's pioneering work on feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf, film and visual cultures....  Read More >>

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Attends to the early modern stage as a platform for the creation and interrogation of knowledge and knowledge production,...  Read More >>

Examines the transformative power of repetition in contemporary poetic practices.  Read More >>

What kind of a playwright comes into being when an avant-garde poet moves on to write Christian popular theatre,...  Read More >>

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From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American culture There are few places on earth as thoroughly...  Read More >>

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>