Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

This new edition of the ""Reflections"" presents Edmund Burke's famous 1790s analysis of revolutionary change along...  Read More >>

The Georgics by Virgil is a masterwork of didactic poetry that celebrates the rhythms of rural life and the art...  Read More >>

The Eclogues by Virgil, also known as the Bucolics, is a seminal collection of ten pastoral poems composed between...  Read More >>

An unrelenting descent into darkness-now collected in a single volume.In this omnibus of psychological noir, The...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror offers a comprehensive guide to this popular genre. It explores its origins,...  Read More >>

Because European theatre from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries appealed to characters, each of whom was...  Read More >>

The studies presented in this book examine the theatrical works of Alphonse Daudet, which are somewhat forgotten...  Read More >>

This study on the literature of the Partition of India (1947) examines the effects of this event in the history...  Read More >>

Philippe Brunet, Lettre a Paul Claudel sur la tragedie grecque et le No - Philippe Forest, La proie de l'ombre...  Read More >>

A rich, layered narrative that explores the indomitable human spirit against the backdrop of Romania's complex history...  Read More >>

Never-before-seen unpublished works by award-winning American literary icon Ntozake Shange, featuring essays, plays,...  Read More >>

Presenting the text of a notorious Jesuit attack on Queen Elizabeth I’s treatment of her Catholic subjects, this...  Read More >>

This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare’s life as depicted on the modern stage and screen....  Read More >>

An exploration of how espionage narratives give access to cultural conceptions of gender and sexuality before and...  Read More >>

Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this open-access volume presents an up-to-date...  Read More >>

""An exploration of representations of social precarity in German literature and culture from the 19th to 21st centuries""--...  Read More >>

Engaging a diverse range of contemporary anglophone literature from authors of the Asian, Middle Eastern and Caribbean...  Read More >>

Satire, irony and humour have long been features of Persian literature’s rich tradition, taking various forms from...  Read More >>

The first study of the reception of Iranian culture, history, and literature in 19th -century France, including...  Read More >>

This book examines the role played by Latin writing as an instrument of political discourse and propaganda during...  Read More >>

Demonstrating how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments, this book also explores...  Read More >>

""In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger's philosophy of art to include his ontological account...  Read More >>

Examines Jewish-German “tropes” in Hélène Cixous’s oeuvre and life and their impact on her work as a feminist, poet,...  Read More >>

""An almanac of sound words important to artists and scholars - words that expand the way we speak (and write) about...  Read More >>

A collection of Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c.1490 to 1750, which...  Read More >>