Literature: history & criticism books

""No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."" Washington Post...  Read More >>

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Magic can’t fix bad economics—discover why the wizarding world is still stuck in the Dark Ages! Discover the Shocking...  Read More >>

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An exploration of Stephen King's writing from the first academic granted full access to King's archives.  Read More >>

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to...  Read More >>

Katharine Mershon examines the unacknowledged religious underpinnings of stories about dogs, revealing deeply rooted...  Read More >>

Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, J. T....  Read More >>

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This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

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Wie kann der Leitbegriff ""Weltliteratur"" unseren Blick auf chinesische Literaturgeschichte ändern? Zum ersten...  Read More >>

This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical...  Read More >>

Vous devez lire Candide pour le lycée ou par curiosité... mais vous manquez de temps, ou le style vous freine ?...  Read More >>

The debut play by INSPIRE graduate David Pearson, Firewing is a striking new play about connection, artistry and...  Read More >>

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  Read More >>

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition...  Read More >>

An instant cult classic that remains deeply relevant today: both an incisive and funny travelogue and a revealing...  Read More >>

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The Delirium Archive is a world premiere by Shane Mac an Bhaird. It is about family, and the intangible love technology...  Read More >>

I want to know what happened to Icarus after his wings melted away, when he fell into the fathomless sea. This...  Read More >>

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""This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>