Literature: history & criticism books

Japanese writers' engagement with kanshi unveils a journey from the Meiji era's mastery of Literary Sinitic poetry...  Read More >>

In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it...  Read More >>

This contextual guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by...  Read More >>

Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens....  Read More >>

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Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter,...  Read More >>

Shows how Shakespeare reveals the world we inhabit neither as objectively nor subjectively given but as always bringing...  Read More >>

Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to...  Read More >>

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Delve into a creative universe built on faith as the cornerstone of ethics, where moral dilemmas and cruelty intertwine...  Read More >>

What's Ailing You? is an examination of the wounds Black families carry, the ones rooted in history, reinforced...  Read More >>

This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's...  Read More >>

How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest. Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal,...  Read More >>

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

'Brilliant and discursive' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times 'Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws...  Read More >>

Écrivaine catholique prolifique et moraliste, soutenue par les autorités religieuses, la comtesse Antoinette Joséphine...  Read More >>

用图文与札记，带你轻松走进《红楼梦》的繁华与悲梦。  Read More >>

Shows how Shakespeare reveals the world we inhabit neither as objectively nor subjectively given but as always bringing...  Read More >>

Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to...  Read More >>

Tells the global story of the cinematograph while modeling a film scholarship committed to transnational analysis...  Read More >>

This book examines the work of Richard Aldington, a poet, war poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and translator...  Read More >>

A ground-breaking theatrical event of two high-energy gig-theatre performances that revisit the stories of four...  Read More >>

Essai sur l'écriture comme état de conscience. Scriptum vibratoire explore la parole vivante, la justesse du langage...  Read More >>