Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

This book addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the second generation of...  Read More >>

This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial...  Read More >>

Collectively, these papers argue that both medieval and modern economic thought are key to valuable historical contextualization...  Read More >>

This book presents a fundamental reassessment of Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge the religious author was the peer...  Read More >>

This book follows the figure of `the clever girl' from the post-war to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays...  Read More >>

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Contributes to the ongoing debate on what it meant to publish a book in manuscript. Offers case-studies of twelfth-century...  Read More >>

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Exploring how readers received and responded to literary works in the long eighteenth century, M-C. Newbould focuses...  Read More >>

The first full-length study of the notion of marriage to Jesus in late medieval and early modern popular culture,...  Read More >>

In his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines...  Read More >>

This book investigates the origins, impact, and outcome of the Elizabethan obsession with fraudulent conveyancing,...  Read More >>

For the past 30 years, the so-called 'Troubles' thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern...  Read More >>

Presents a new perspective on the aesthetic aspects of liberalism through examinations of music and ideas about...  Read More >>

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In constant conversation with the themes and settings of her novels, the essays form a near-unbroken memoir of Arundhati...  Read More >>

'Lines off' is a term used for lines spoken from the wings of a theatre, or off-camera in a film. Autobiographical,...  Read More >>

This book evaluates the parallels, divergences, and convergences in the literary legacies of Rudyard Kipling and...  Read More >>

To what extent is a great comic writer the product of his time? How far is he (or she) influenced by factors of...  Read More >>

Discover the Queen of Crime's own Scotland in this remarkable and uniquely personal journey  Read More >>

Emma Dante's passionate and brutal plays stem from a need to confront important familial and societal realities...  Read More >>

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Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) was born and lived in Poland for the first half of his life but spent twenty-four...  Read More >>

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Published in 1992, this text discusses Les Voeux du Heron, a short text, comprising only 442 lines that was popular...  Read More >>