Literature: history & criticism books

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Acclaimed author and translator Sophus Helle considers an ancient creation story with themes of humanity, class...  Read More >>

This book addresses an absence in queer readings of Shakespeare’s work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of...  Read More >>

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

In which we lead readers through the capital as Holmes and Watson knew it - a city of gaslight, theatres, grand...  Read More >>

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

This book addresses an absence in queer readings of Shakespeare’s work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of...  Read More >>

This book offers a fresh reading of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, showing how the Cuban writer reimagined literary...  Read More >>

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

The first major study of contemporary Nordic petrofiction. Through a variety of cultural texts, including the Nordic...  Read More >>

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In this survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, seasoned Joyceans introduce the methodologies that...  Read More >>

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A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

From Sarajevo to Tunisia to Rome, these five plays trace the invisible scars of exile, where memory and identity...  Read More >>

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James's late works through the lens of minimalism. Henry James's...  Read More >>

Poetry that considers migration and identity through formal experimentation with sonnets. José Felipe Alvergue's...  Read More >>

Poetry that seeks kinship and hopeful futures amid traumas of colonialism, displacement, and climate disaster. The...  Read More >>

Named for the Pulse nightclub shooting and the rhythm of heartbeats, this collection of poems grapples with finding...  Read More >>

Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphors The salons, cafés,...  Read More >>

Bringing together nineteen essays from leading specialists in poetics and American music, this collection offers...  Read More >>

At the end of World War II, a demon-summoning ritual drastically altered the face of the earth. Now, a hundred years...  Read More >>

In a rigid postwar institution where friendships burn bright and...  Read More >>

As past and future blur, this work from Alexander Kluge reveals the emotional and intellectual currents that drive...  Read More >>