Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

An innovative collection of essays that explore the intersections between two powerful creative movements  Read More >>

A gripping psychological thriller for the stage, exploring the haunting history of colonialism. Premiered at the...  Read More >>

Cormorant is the natural and cultural history of a 'greedy' bird that is hated across the world and the object of...  Read More >>

Witches in Wonderland: a poetic adventure, takes the reader on a poetic adventurous journey of change and growth....  Read More >>

Delving into his biological imagery, Tara Lee shows how Blake articulates radical views about spirituality and embodiment,...  Read More >>

Original sketches, patterns and test shots, plus interviews with Hollywood designer William Travilla on Marilyn...  Read More >>

A beautiful graduation gift offering advice, inspiration and encouragement from some of our greatest writers and...  Read More >>

An exploration of the ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their own to...  Read More >>

This book delves into modernism, addressing its intricate relationship with the socio-political, philosophical,...  Read More >>

Royal laundresses, corset-makers and professional feather curlers- the hidden story of the people who designed,...  Read More >>

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies’ Home Journal to Vogue this diverse...  Read More >>

This book presents a systematic and detailed analysis of Caspian linguistics, contributing new perspectives to Western...  Read More >>

This book uses the medium of film to explore poetic history as a subtle form of psychology expressed within Islamic...  Read More >>

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Volume 53 of the academic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama, Culture and Literature,...  Read More >>

This book targets a cluster of darknesses in a century that, in the wake of the Romantic euphoria for the nocturnal,...  Read More >>

The book demonstrates how apocalyptic narratives actively shape public understanding of environmental crisis, alternately...  Read More >>

A collection of newly written poems/haiku and as always trying to understand my place in this world. Hoping that...  Read More >>

This open access book reframes performance and pedagogy through their shared ‘objects’ and lays the foundation for...  Read More >>

This is a wide-ranging account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental...  Read More >>

Offering new insights from a range of experienced and emerging scholars, this volume analyses Shakespeare’s Twelfth...  Read More >>

An innovative collection of essays that explore the intersections between two powerful creative movements  Read More >>

This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval...  Read More >>

A study of the fragments of Old Comedy, arguing that these fragments greatly enlarge our understanding of the history...  Read More >>

This is the much anticipated third poetry collection from Alexander McCall Smith. InThe Kind Company of Others he...  Read More >>