Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

The influences of William Wordsworth's writing and evolutionary theory-the nineteenth century's two defining visions...  Read More >>

Author Qu na Madison shares this profound collection of memories to encourage a better understanding of life with...  Read More >>

Interviews of ten American poets: W. S. Merwin, William Stafford, Robert Creeley, David Ray, Robert Morgan, Naomi...  Read More >>

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the prose, poetry, plays, and libretti of Gertrude Stein in college literature...  Read More >>

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The ninth volume of a comprehensive reference work detailing every play written by a British author during the English...  Read More >>

As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. This Handbook explores...  Read More >>

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Offering the first full-length commentary on Odyssey I in English since the 1980s, this new edition with facing...  Read More >>

Simon Stephens' explosive play Rage was written as a counterpoint for Elfriede Jelinek's Wut. Composed as 31 high-energy...  Read More >>

Home Truths will unplug you from the distractions of modern society so that you can truly admire the world we have...  Read More >>

This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime....  Read More >>

Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural violence against animals hoarded in factory farms?...  Read More >>

The purpose of art, according to the artist Banksy, is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. The...  Read More >>

This book updates our understanding of working-class fiction by focusing on its continued relevance to the social...  Read More >>

This book locates the theatre of Marina Carr within a female genealogy that revises the patriarchal origins of modern...  Read More >>

Hole is a new play by Royal Court Young Writers' Programme alumna Ellie Kendrick, asking how power is created through...  Read More >>

Tom Bland's The Death of a Clown is an audacious and essential take on authenticity, alienation and sexuality that...  Read More >>

With its cross-dressed heroine, gender games and explorations of sexual ambivalence, its Forest of Arden and melancholy...  Read More >>

Positioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism considers...  Read More >>

One of the foremost writers of her time, Harriet Martineau established her reputation by writing a hugely successful...  Read More >>

Cultural Genealogy explores the popularization in the Renaissance of the still pervasive myth that later cultures...  Read More >>

Acts of Implication argues that the best approach to the aesthetic value of much literature of the past is by way...  Read More >>

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