Literature: history & criticism books

Hemingway’s Spanish Table takes you on a culinary journey through Spain with 60 authentic recipes inspired by Hemingway’s...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary and international roster of contributors demonstrate how discourses of poison in popular culture...  Read More >>

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The Spanish Civil War (19361939) inspired an outpouring of responses among Canadian cultural producers. Yet, the...  Read More >>

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How the ""Asian girl"" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations...  Read More >>

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights...  Read More >>

""Situates Chaucer's proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places...  Read More >>

This scholarly monograph is an original philosophical reflection on poetics, elucidating the metaphysical and mystical...  Read More >>

HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI:...  Read More >>

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

This fourth volume of The Collected Works of Charles and Mary Lamb contains Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia,...  Read More >>

Grounds itself in the critical trajectory related to what Sara Ahmed calls affective economies to offer fresh insights...  Read More >>

Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,...  Read More >>

How the ""Asian girl"" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations...  Read More >>

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Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation...  Read More >>

Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement's backdrop, this book examines six African...  Read More >>

Charlie Brown's America tells the story of how and why the lovable kids and an adventurous beagle of Peanuts became...  Read More >>

HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI:...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf’s beloved classic, with a new foreword.  Read More >>

Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and...  Read More >>

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

Seventeen ingenious essays devoted to snails’ and aquatic invertebrates’ uncanny ways of living. Mollusks’ innermost...  Read More >>

In recounting the fascinating history of how modern Irish writers politically, socially, and polemically organised...  Read More >>