Literature: history & criticism books

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The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

Set during the civil wars of 19th-century Yorubaland, Crown of Blood is a powerful retelling of the classic Macbeth....  Read More >>

Showing how poetry and art articulate forms of life beyond settler colonialism.  Read More >>

A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse...  Read More >>

Bloke of All Ages offers refreshing new insights into the works of one of South Africa’s most important literary,...  Read More >>

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""This title explores contemporary Irish writing by women to identify strategies used in actively revising folktales...  Read More >>

By examining cultural texts of a variety of genres, this volume brings to light notable transformations in the Mediterranean...  Read More >>

This series of ten volumes presents a decade-by-decade account of how literature developed in Britain throughout...  Read More >>

Challenges the myths about apathy and smugness surrounding British literature of the period.  Read More >>

Examines the significance of the Faustian pact in international law  Read More >>

A wide-ranging intellectual history of the life, death, and afterlife of the Critical Legal Studies Movement  Read More >>

Explores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred...  Read More >>

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature  Read More >>

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the...  Read More >>

Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century  Read More >>

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

Presents an image of Victorian life-especially womens' lives-that uniquely and surprisingly anticipates our own...  Read More >>

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

Establishes Elizabeth von Arnim as an important figure in literary modernism.  Read More >>

The first reference book on First World War newspapers and magazines from the home front to the front lines.  Read More >>

Refines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writer  Read More >>