Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

This book examines the speculative core of Karl Barth's theology, reconsidering the relationship between theory...  Read More >>

It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early modern reading cultures...  Read More >>

This book offers a discussion of the kalam cosmological argument, and presents a defence of a version of that argument...  Read More >>

This book explores the humanities as an insightful platform for understanding and responding to the military prison...  Read More >>

Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully...  Read More >>

Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two...  Read More >>

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Ezra Pound is one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, a writer whose poetry is particularly...  Read More >>

Published in 1992, this volume is a critical edition of Francis Quarles' Divine Fancies, including a textual introduction,...  Read More >>

This text discusses the idea that the decline of storytelling coincides with the breakdown and fragmentation of...  Read More >>

First published in 2000, this volume is a unique collection of essays which draws our attention to the importance...  Read More >>

First published in 1999, this volume aims to develop the field of theatre studies by promoting the study of performative...  Read More >>

The Journal I Never Kept is a definitive collection of the writing of beloved New Yorker short story writer Lore...  Read More >>

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This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged...  Read More >>

When she died in 2016, Dr Jennifer O'Reilly left behind a body of published and unpublished work in three areas...  Read More >>

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Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Ulster, 2009) issued under title: The multitudinous complexities...  Read More >>

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Barrow's timely book is the first to examine the link between Victorian poetry, the study of language, and political...  Read More >>

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A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were...  Read More >>

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This volume is the last of six that present in their entirety the novelist Frances Burney's journals and letters...  Read More >>

This book is about what exceeds or resists calculation-in life and in death. Its two parts and nine chapters highlight,...  Read More >>