Literature: history & criticism books

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 >>

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'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 >>

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

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

Windows into Urdu poetry's soul: Daryabadi's essays on Ghalib, Hali & more in Soch Ke Dareeche.  Read More >>

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late-medieval and early-modern English poets thought about the material...  Read More >>

This collective study of the James siblings--Alice, William, and Henry--lights up their shared intellectual project:...  Read More >>

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In this standalone essay, Margaret Randall looks to poets Bertolt Brecht, Carolyn Forché, Nâzım Hikmet, Roque Dalton,...  Read More >>

Des mémoires vibrantes sur la vie littéraire parisienne et la passion des livres.  Read More >>

Un essai inspiré sur la poésie, la création et la mission spirituelle de l'écrivain.  Read More >>

Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? This book explains...  Read More >>

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and...  Read More >>

Discover the Rome that has inspired writers for centuries, from the Classical era to the present day. Walk in the...  Read More >>

Through his journals (19351950), Cesare Pavese opens a door into his life as one of Italy's most influential writers....  Read More >>

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