Literature: history & criticism books

Internationally acclaimed graphic novelist Olivier Schrauwen returns with a masterfully funny and profound day in...  Read More >>

Alexandra Teague's fourth collection of poems deepens her ongoing inquiry into American optimism, disillusionment,...  Read More >>

Exploring Indigenous Novels in Grades 5-10: Literature Studies Focusing on Indigenized Worlds offers teachers and...  Read More >>

This volume brings together for the first time two lesser-known aspects of Gerard Manley Hopkins's creative drive:...  Read More >>

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A collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical...  Read More >>

Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years....  Read More >>

The lordship of Denbigh, held by prominent English barons following its creation in 1282, was directly affected...  Read More >>

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Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files...  Read More >>

Global Englishes offers a clear and comprehensive overview of key areas of the topic, encompassing both World Englishes...  Read More >>

It examines English, Comparative and World poetry and literature. Questions of language, literature, translation...  Read More >>

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The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who, enmeshed in the...  Read More >>

This book examines the cultural work and meaning-making of Louisa May Alcott’s representations of health and illness....  Read More >>

Constructions of Illiteracy in Twentieth Century Ireland: Contesting the Narrative of Full Literacy offers new insights...  Read More >>

This book explores Tamil Dalit feminist poets challenging Tamil literary tradition with poetics that reinvent language,...  Read More >>

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Framed by the publication of Leviathan and the 1713 Licensing Act, this collection provides analysis of both canonical...  Read More >>

This collection explores a range of case studies of transcultural memory as well as theorising the mobility of memory...  Read More >>

Innovative and collaborative in its approach, this volume engages with the question of how gender informed song...  Read More >>

The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England...  Read More >>

This volume takes up the question of transnational interactions in the Romantic period and the possibilities they...  Read More >>

This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry, and some of the most...  Read More >>

This volume presents foundational and representative essays of the last half century on theatre performance practice...  Read More >>