Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

A wide-ranging critical survey of British Fiction in the 1950s, from J.R.R. Tolkien to Samuel Beckett, Kingsley...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British fiction of the 1930s, from Virginia Woolf and George Orwell to Sylvia...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British fiction of the 1960s, from J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter to A.S. Byatt,...  Read More >>

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential...  Read More >>

Ibsen in Context identifies thirty different contexts for understanding Ibsen's life and career at home, and considers...  Read More >>

Introducing readers to the broad socio-cultural contexts that shaped Chekhov's works and legacy, this insightful...  Read More >>

This open access book offers an array of educational perspectives aimed at fostering inclusive, multicultural, critical,...  Read More >>

A stage adaptation of the bestselling novel, a beautiful and compassionate story of lives disrupted by war. Published...  Read More >>

This book brings together a diverse array of researchers and seasoned educators to present a sweeping exploration...  Read More >>

Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality, Volume 2 looks at Caribbean sexuality from around the region and...  Read More >>

This newly updated edition of John Day’s The Parliament of Bees includes both the 1641 quarto and also a complete...  Read More >>

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This groundbreaking anthology presents a century of Russian writing for children-from the Soviet era to the present-bringing...  Read More >>

A scholarly consideration of Akínwùmí Ìsòlá and his anthology, Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn, via the analysis of...  Read More >>

An accessible and wide-ranging all-in-one craft guide and anthology to the mode of speculative fiction writing,...  Read More >>

The first study of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN) during a five-year period of rising nationalism,...  Read More >>

Drawing on new research, this wide-ranging book includes chapters by both scholars and performers. It gives proper...  Read More >>

The first full-length study of the late Victorian and Edwardian writing advice industry, exploring how primary instructive...  Read More >>

Argues for the importance of libraries in an age of artificial and automated intelligence to create a better information...  Read More >>

Bringing together book historians, textual editors, and new media theorists, this is an engaging and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Scholars, students and general readers of J. M. Coetzee's novels will find this book a fascinating guide to one...  Read More >>

A complete introduction to the comics of Lynda Barry, this book maps her historical and biographical contexts, key...  Read More >>

Identifies how ""dangerous"" 1980s heavy metal can be analyzed through literary criticism, how heavy metal helps...  Read More >>