Literature: history & criticism books

Disillusioned former high school sweethearts must come to terms with their past and present in the face of a tragedy....  Read More >>

Poems that capture a transformative and visionary way of life in Haiti. Konbit is a Haitian Creole word, a way...  Read More >>

An ambitious collection of poems that reckon with life and death through the point of view of famous speakers throughout...  Read More >>

Follow the everyday lives of those trying to keep up with a changing Nashville, Tennessee. Set in the rapidly...  Read More >>

A ruminative collection of poetry that is mystified by life in our built and natural world. Cameo Blue is a spiritual...  Read More >>

Reflects on the dark rise and fall of an ambitious rock music collective in the upper Midwest. Matthew Pitt's...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British Fiction in the 1950s, from J.R.R. Tolkien to Samuel Beckett, Kingsley...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British fiction of the 1930s, from Virginia Woolf and George Orwell to Sylvia...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British fiction of the 1960s, from J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter to A.S. Byatt,...  Read More >>

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential...  Read More >>

Ibsen in Context identifies thirty different contexts for understanding Ibsen's life and career at home, and considers...  Read More >>

Introducing readers to the broad socio-cultural contexts that shaped Chekhov's works and legacy, this insightful...  Read More >>

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A scholarly consideration of Akínwùmí Ìsòlá and his anthology, Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn, via the analysis of...  Read More >>

An accessible and wide-ranging all-in-one craft guide and anthology to the mode of speculative fiction writing,...  Read More >>

The first study of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN) during a five-year period of rising nationalism,...  Read More >>

Drawing on new research, this wide-ranging book includes chapters by both scholars and performers. It gives proper...  Read More >>

The first full-length study of the late Victorian and Edwardian writing advice industry, exploring how primary instructive...  Read More >>

Bringing together book historians, textual editors, and new media theorists, this is an engaging and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Scholars, students and general readers of J. M. Coetzee's novels will find this book a fascinating guide to one...  Read More >>

A complete introduction to the comics of Lynda Barry, this book maps her historical and biographical contexts, key...  Read More >>

Identifies how ""dangerous"" 1980s heavy metal can be analyzed through literary criticism, how heavy metal helps...  Read More >>