Literature: history & criticism books

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about...  Read More >>

Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This book offers a comprehensive, in-depth study of literary translation in Macao, examining how translation mediates...  Read More >>

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

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 >>

This book is a phenomenological study of the crime fiction of Benjamin Black and John Banville, including novels...  Read More >>

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

Top Gs Like Me dives headfirst into the influence of online culture, the pull of toxic masculinity, and the search...  Read More >>