Literature: history & criticism books

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped...  Read More >>

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Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly...  Read More >>

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The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian...  Read More >>

It is generally understood that the modern colonial encounter warped the experience of time in the postcolonial...  Read More >>

A Wedding Celebrant's Guide to writing great love stories.  Read More >>

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A richly imagined, physically charged poetry collection in which history, myth, and protest are transformed into...  Read More >>

A profound journey through the psyche unfolds, merging prose and poetry to explore themes of ego death, resilience,...  Read More >>

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The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural...  Read More >>

There is no such thing as a people's philosopher but Duffer O'Grady set out to be one. From his earliest years,...  Read More >>

A young mother, her infant son and a Catholic priest are all murdered by a delusional young man.  Read More >>

A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development...  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies,...  Read More >>

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings still resonate with pressing societal issues. This collection...  Read More >>

Life Before You, a fierce and unflinching new play by Eva Hudson, lays bare the fault lines between mothers and...  Read More >>

The story of two missionary priests, travelling through the American Southwest in the aftermath of the Mexican American...  Read More >>

Après avoir écrit la vie de deux Peltier: L'armateur préféré de Beaumarchais, Jean Peltier Dudoyer et de son fils...  Read More >>

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