Literature: history & criticism books

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This 10-year anniversary edition of Bernice L. McFadden's NAACP Image Award-winning classic explores the Holocaust...  Read More >>

Combining extensive research into sexual violence with the author's personal experiences as a feminist activist,...  Read More >>

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Recent news images of disastrous floods, fires and earthquakes vividly show we live in an unstable world. This book...  Read More >>

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A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

The iconic Renaissance songbook–an inspiration to love poets since the fourteenth century–in an elegant, fluid and...  Read More >>

This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

The latest volume in our new Fantagraphics Atlas Creator Collection focuses on the feverishly imaginative Bill Everett's...  Read More >>

An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women's experiences across the African diaspora...  Read More >>

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This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the...  Read More >>

Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga examines the relationship between music and literary works within...  Read More >>

Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical...  Read More >>

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

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The definitive introduction to Queer Theory for anyone looking to understand its key terms, concepts, debates, and...  Read More >>

This Open Access book addresses the critical gap in current literacy education by integrating multimodal literacies...  Read More >>

Die Reihe Gegenwartsliteratur - Autoren und Debatten präsentiert konzise Auseinandersetzungen mit vorwiegend deutschsprachiger...  Read More >>

A historical sociopolitical analysis of working-class women's writing.  Read More >>

Monster relics make for good stories. When a hero in medieval literature brings a monster's head, hand, or weapon...  Read More >>

A comparative account of post-Holocaust poetry, showing the relation between poetic form and the affective experience...  Read More >>