Literature: history & criticism books

An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, a twelfth-century...  Read More >>

Examines the reasons why the Folio came into being in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, and how the now...  Read More >>

Explores the stylistic and formal inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers from Britain, the United States,...  Read More >>

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent...  Read More >>

Focusing on ten key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents...  Read More >>

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening...  Read More >>

A critical assessment by leading scholars on the relationship between music and the life’s work of Stanley Cavell....  Read More >>

Get It While It's Hot brings together scholars, food writers, influencers, and even a CEO to discuss the phenomenon...  Read More >>

Contextualizes Pablo Neruda's opus by including 42 essays focusing on his journeys, the Cold War, and how literary...  Read More >>

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This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Recognising herself as a child...  Read More >>

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

Oliver James went viral on TikTok after he shared five simple words: “What's up? I can't read.” Thus began a journey...  Read More >>

An intervention into contemporary debates on care by positioning it as a matter of attunement or resonance through...  Read More >>

An exploration of variations on the theme of disappearance in contemporary women's writing  Read More >>

An exploration of the symbolic and philosophical roles of animals and hybrid creatures in Italian literature from...  Read More >>

Bringing together the work of international scholars, this book investigates the well-known conceptualization of...  Read More >>

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Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

A rethinking of the evolution of the British novel that departs from dominant narratives and argues for an importantly...  Read More >>

An exploration of nineteenth-century fiction written by descendants of Puritans and Pilgrims who intended to shape...  Read More >>

This book analyzes how racialized and gendered city spaces are presented in post-apartheid South African literature....  Read More >>

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

An analytical look at mothers and mother figures in multiple works under a feminist psychoanalytic framework  Read More >>