Literature: history & criticism books

""Admire stunning Christian imagery of Ethiopian Orthodox Church art in this lavishly illustrated volume with informative...  Read More >>

Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of...  Read More >>

Surveys the career of the influential Nobel-prize winning author Ernest Hemingway. Pays close attention to prose...  Read More >>

This book is for people who want to learn about mass incarceration. It covers all of the major figures in prison...  Read More >>

Step into a world where myth breathes, thunder sings, and imagination takes form. Mythbeasts: Songs of the Imagined...  Read More >>

This Element explores the landscape of anglophone trade bookselling in India, aiming to identify some key factors...  Read More >>

The Voynich Manuscript is the world's most famous unreadable book. Written in an unknown script and illustrated...  Read More >>

With Orwell claimed by all sides of the culture wars, returning to his own world and words offers sharp and surprising...  Read More >>

In this textbook, ‘dark comedy’ is re-imagined as an ecological instrument: a volatile compound of irony, grotesquerie,...  Read More >>

This volume engages with migrant deaths from a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective, raising questions...  Read More >>

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Every day at 7pm, Greg Hurst has a little treat. When the pandemic begins, treats ramp up. Gay, single, aimless,...  Read More >>

An illustrated edition of Billy Budd featuring woodcuts by celebrated artist Barry Moser. This edition of Billy...  Read More >>

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This is the first English translation of the ancient scholia to the Iliad, the richest and most extensive collection...  Read More >>

The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of colonialism, expansion,...  Read More >>

Surveys the career of the influential Nobel-prize winning author Ernest Hemingway. Pays close attention to prose...  Read More >>

This book is for people who want to learn about mass incarceration. It covers all of the major figures in prison...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1988, this book brings brain science to...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature...  Read More >>

An essential guide to making picture books for writers and illustrators from award-winning writer Libby Gleeson....  Read More >>

This book critically examines Whitehead’s genre-driven fiction as a powerful intervention in debates on race, memory,...  Read More >>

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Let's learn Chinese characters, words, phrases, and simple sentences with Chinese names, surnames and geography...  Read More >>