Literature: history & criticism books

A collection of eleven scholarly essays by prominent international scholars, exploring how nature was perceived...  Read More >>

This volume introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is an...  Read More >>

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This book outlines the historical development of the prosodic systems of two African literatures, Swahili and Wolof....  Read More >>

An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscripts Facsimiles are, or claim to be, exact...  Read More >>

""Honest, powerful, and moving, My Name Means Fire is a bold narrative that challenges the stigma and misinformation...  Read More >>

Historian and novelist Song WooHye chronicles the life of Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), one of the most beloved and important...  Read More >>

Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler selects Christmas-themed mysteries from the genre’s Golden Age, including...  Read More >>

This book examines how writers of the Republican era (1912–1949) came to recognize and respond to “information.”...  Read More >>

This book reveals how modernists turned to the Middle Passage—and, in so doing, upended Western ideas about time...  Read More >>

This edited volume brings together fresh voices, both emerging and established, on the ecocritical landscape within...  Read More >>

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and place During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han...  Read More >>

While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its...  Read More >>

An enchanting history of the otherworld of elves and fairies, from the nature spirits of Iceland and Ireland to...  Read More >>

The earliest appearances of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, the most popular underground comix characters of...  Read More >>

Relying on autobiographical documents, this book analyses what Australians read in the 19th century, as well as...  Read More >>

From the acclaimed fine artist Harmonia Rosales, a sweeping retelling of African myth illustrated throughout with...  Read More >>

Vivid, joyful poetry and bright, whimsical artwork combine in a delightful picture book collection of E. E. Cummings's...  Read More >>

First Daughters Marissa and Clara journey back to FDR’s presidency to solve a mystery at the heart of Great Depression–era...  Read More >>

Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers...  Read More >>

August Derleth spent nearly his entire career studying the genres of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. From...  Read More >>

How modern Yiddish children's literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity As migration carried...  Read More >>

This study delves into the practices and contexts of the narrative forms of Early Middle High German literature...  Read More >>

Early Modern expansionism and its aftermaths constitute a biopolitical laboratory, measuring social and individual...  Read More >>

Even though it did not have a university, the history of medicine in the imperial town of Augsburg is important....  Read More >>