Literature: history & criticism books

Alone With Others provides an unparalleled intellectual-historical account of tact in modernist literature, film,...  Read More >>

For any reader curious about the wilder flights of fancy in eighteenth-century fiction and how they challenge colonial...  Read More >>

Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and literary genius The Life...  Read More >>

A new edition of John Millington Synge’s riveting story of youth and self-discovery, published to coincide with...  Read More >>

The freedom to read is under attack. From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today's state-sponsored...  Read More >>

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Realism has been disparaged for over a hundred years as an outmoded form, and, more recently, as a pernicious illusion,...  Read More >>

Outlines British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Twenty-one chapters...  Read More >>

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

Joy in literature and culture remains a little-studied subject, one sometimes even viewed with suspicion. Here,...  Read More >>

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Mark Janse has spent an entire career being a philhellene. His passion for the Greek language has carried him from...  Read More >>

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This text firmly positions Whitman as a necessary and radical voice within the American poetry canon.  Read More >>

Taking a holistic approach to performances of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this multidisciplinary volume examines...  Read More >>

Examining Europe’s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal,...  Read More >>

Mapping the transformative personal journeys of the displaced The travel writing genre has long been associated...  Read More >>

Nearly seven decades after the English translation of Morphology of the Folktale, one of the most influential scholarly...  Read More >>

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How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civility Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing...  Read More >>

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

An illuminating new collection from the latest winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, selected by Germán Guerra and...  Read More >>

""Analyzes the environmental and social complexities of Izaak Walton's famous fishing treatise The Compleat Angler....  Read More >>

Using an ecomaterialist conceptual framework, addresses interconnected stories from fiction, nonfiction, works of...  Read More >>