Literature: history & criticism books

An immersive account of William Shakespeare’s life and legacy presented in a lavishly illustrated journal-style...  Read More >>

Timeless wisdom from the ancient world to dip into every day - from internationally bestselling classicist Irene...  Read More >>

This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel.  Read More >>

An exploration and insightful analysis of sisters in literature and their depiction in three centuries of the novel....  Read More >>

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Dana Gioia’s characters and verses cry from the depths, their faith tried—and purified—in the furnace of doubt....  Read More >>

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to...  Read More >>

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Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

Magic can’t fix bad economics—discover why the wizarding world is still stuck in the Dark Ages! Discover the Shocking...  Read More >>

""No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."" Washington Post...  Read More >>

A posthumous collection of beloved and never-before-read stories from a titan of contemporary Southern fiction  Read More >>

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This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

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An exploration of Stephen King's writing from the first academic granted full access to King's archives.  Read More >>

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to...  Read More >>

An exploration of how comics illuminate medicine, religion, and identity  Read More >>

Interviews that illuminate a life shaped by jazz, history, and verse  Read More >>

Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, J. T....  Read More >>

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This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical...  Read More >>

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