Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

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Brings together essays that analyse the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1978 Sea Serpents, Sailors and Sceptics looks at stories of folklore and mythology which...  Read More >>

Much writing on the subject of death, dying, cancer, and grief is often sugar coated. That is understandable, considering...  Read More >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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

What is the role of disgust or revulsion in early modern English literature? How did early modern English subjects...  Read More >>

Traces a tradition of literary resistance to dominant pedagogies in nineteenth-century Britain, recovering an overlooked...  Read More >>

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Disciplinary Measures from the Metrical Psalms to Milton studies the relationship between English poetry and church...  Read More >>

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