Literature: history & criticism books

This book examines the special status of the Prophet Muḥammad, as described by the Cairene Sufi mystic Shihāb al-Dīn...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

This book addresses the rise of the concept of the ""Global Anglophone” in contemporary literary studies, both as...  Read More >>

Les Fleurs du mal sont le plus beau fleuron de la couronne poétique de Baudelaire -Théophile Gautier.À travers les...  Read More >>

...et, parmi ces livres, il n'en est pas qui offrent un plus vif intérêt de renseignements et d'art que l'oeuvre...  Read More >>

La figure de Tolstoï, tel que l'auteur de Résurrection m'est apparu l'automne dernier, malade, persécuté, excommunié...  Read More >>

Dans La Mort de Balzac, Octave Mirbeau livre un récit saisissant et polémique sur les derniers instants du grand...  Read More >>

Aceasta carte nu este doar un manual, ci este o invitație de a explora modul în care culturile se imaginează pe...  Read More >>

Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature examines the way in which adults discuss the reading and entertainment habits...  Read More >>

Compellingly written and drawing on examples from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers a comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics,...  Read More >>

How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action?...  Read More >>

This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together...  Read More >>

Comprehensive and comparative, this volume investigates African American street novelists from the Chicago Black...  Read More >>

The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved...  Read More >>

The Mythic Indian: The Native in French and Québécois Cultural Imaginaries charts a genealogy of French and Québécois...  Read More >>

This research individuates uncanny-related narrative techniques and cognitive responses as means to decodify and...  Read More >>

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics...  Read More >>

This book highlights the stories of women from premodern history and literature through models of adaptations, retellings,...  Read More >>

This book follows a close textual analysis approach and offers a discussion of love as portrayed in ‘Modern’ popular...  Read More >>

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict goes...  Read More >>

Fictional languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as...  Read More >>

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century discusses the valuable fiction written in mid-nineteenth...  Read More >>

In times that are rife with complex manifestations of identity politics, writing classrooms across the world are...  Read More >>

Comparing Lawrence’s texts to various major and minor contemporary novels, journal articles, political pamphlets...  Read More >>