Literature: history & criticism books

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In this first-ever account of the broadsheet ballads sold outside playhouses, Tiffany Stern reveals how ballads...  Read More >>

This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular...  Read More >>

Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which women’s violence, victimhood and villainy are portrayed in...  Read More >>

Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing...  Read More >>

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An exploration of the multifaceted dimensions of violence represented in the literature of South Asia.  Read More >>

Traces the development of Pushkin’s heroines from his youthful Southern Poems to his last published work The Captain’s...  Read More >>

A study of nineteenth-century Romantic literary artifacts centering on the removal of Parthenon sculptures from...  Read More >>

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Professors, high school teachers, novelists, anti-censorship advocates, and librarians confront and examine the...  Read More >>

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Examining three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book looks at how they engage...  Read More >>

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Will appeal to scholars, students, and general audiences interested in American history, religion, and reform before...  Read More >>

Academic discourse on eyes has focused overwhelmingly on their visual function. Weeping Eyes turns instead to their...  Read More >>

Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary...  Read More >>

What was the role of insects in defining the human during the British eighteenth century? Through close ecocritical...  Read More >>

Presents authoritative, annotated versions of major stories and essays from three late eighteenth-century American...  Read More >>

An accurate and poetic translation of Paul Claudel’s Cinq Grandes Odes (1907), with detailed commentary introducing...  Read More >>

Kelsey Ridge provides a thorough overview of how we can use trauma theory to understand Shakespeare through its...  Read More >>

Books for Development analyzes how governmental and non-governmental actors deployed books as instruments of development...  Read More >>

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situates American poetry within a world of global media to...  Read More >>

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