Literature: history & criticism books

Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related...  Read More >>

Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929 focuses on fifty-three silent...  Read More >>

This book elucidates the work of 21st-century European thinkers to describe the event of art as an intuited correspondence...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates Eugene O’Neill’s use of philosophy in the early period of his work and provides analyses...  Read More >>

A Wish for Air and Liberty examines how upheaval and humanitarian crisis provoked literary authors to engage with...  Read More >>

Spanning the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, this volume brings together utopian and...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism following the 2008 financial crisis through...  Read More >>

This book uses literary examples makes the case for understanding law and the legal system through the lens of philosophical...  Read More >>

At a time when visual media otherwise seem to have captured the imagination, Modern Fiction, Disability, and the...  Read More >>

Based on first-hand historical materials, this book explores the various aspects of literary communication during...  Read More >>

Norman Maclean’s “A River Runs Through It”: The Search for Beauty is the first book-length study of Norman Maclean...  Read More >>

This volume maps the phenomenon of medievalism in Aotearoa, initially as an import by the early white settler society,...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is a field-defining collection. The editor and contributors are...  Read More >>

This volume brings together scholars of History, Manuscript Studies, and Art and Architectural History to examine...  Read More >>

Applying the latest Western translation theories to the situation in China, this book redefines translation from...  Read More >>

This book discusses Keats’s poetry with regard to post/non-anthropocentric, alternative subject positions and subject-object...  Read More >>

Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives presents an intricate exploration into the life and literary universe of Mohamed...  Read More >>

This study reads the Poet’s reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as explicitly about his twenty-three-year-old-self...  Read More >>

New Diasporic Reflections on Galician Literature and Culture is an interdisciplinary study of Galician literature,...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Medicine and Poetry draws on an international selection of authors to ask what the cultures...  Read More >>

Reading Words into Worlds asks: how can reading a novel make us feel as if we are living in a world? The book argues...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Intralingual Translation provides the first comprehensive overview of intralingual translation,...  Read More >>

With its thirteen essays, spanning different types of Italian ‘resources’, from novellas to dramas, scenarios and...  Read More >>

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of...  Read More >>

An Analysis of all the Plays and Fragmentary Works in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Théâtre complet is the first volume to...  Read More >>