Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition...  Read More >>

The secret history of a trio of gamblers who used homemade technology and their own ingenuity to outplay the house,...  Read More >>

The 163rd edition of the most world's famous sports book contains some of the finest sports writing of the year...  Read More >>

An instant cult classic that remains deeply relevant today: both an incisive and funny travelogue and a revealing...  Read More >>

Explores the intersections of print, writing, and media in early American literary cultures Print Technologies...  Read More >>

A bittersweet, tender stage play exploring the long tail of grief and the fickleness of memory. Premiered at the...  Read More >>

Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology examines five female-authored novelizations of The Tempest,...  Read More >>

Of Coal, the poet and critic Hayden Carruth said, ""For us these words indeed are jewels in the open light.""  Read More >>

The majority of the stories in this book are based on actual events that occurred during my experience as a licensed...  Read More >>

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Please Please Me is the electrifying story of The Beatles’ meteoric rise and the hidden struggles of their beloved...  Read More >>

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An exploration of the relationships between American rurality, conceptions of wellness and civic “fitness,” and...  Read More >>

An examination of vernacular authors' expression of religious experience and theology through metaphors of food...  Read More >>

An analysis of haiku-related poetic forms that traces their histories and analyzes current trends, while arguing...  Read More >>

A close look into systemic violence against women in French society through various forms of rebellion, both real...  Read More >>

An examination of evolving ideas about British citizenship in Romantic fiction in the proto-bureaucratic conditions...  Read More >>

""This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

During the 21st century, the collective hero has emerged as the defining archetype in media, reflecting shifts in...  Read More >>

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The Mabinogion Setis a book about the most famous of medieval Welsh stories: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi....  Read More >>

Offers a unique perspective to medieval femininity and spirituality through the lens of trauma present within The...  Read More >>

A study of four plays by Tony Kushner that are most political and pertinent for our time  Read More >>

Since the Middle Ages, bearshave mostfrequentlybeen seenas objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears...  Read More >>

Reimagine our relationship with the natural world through the Welsh poetic tradition. At a time of biodiversity...  Read More >>