Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society....  Read More >>

The last thing Alexandra Blackstone needed was another man to fall in love with her. But she had the sexual power...  Read More >>

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"Theodor Fontane's best-known novel is published in simple language for the first time. Theodor Fontane's best-known...  Read More >>

Robert Southey's Essays Moral and Political, originally published in 1832, brings together many of Southey’s most...  Read More >>

This collection is a shared inquiry into the enduring Christian vision of God’s engagement with the world.  Read More >>

"*An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024* Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career...  Read More >>

An original, inventive new biography of Franz Kafka - and his readers  Read More >>

Explores the power of art and the fickleness of art history across three millennia of artifacts, paintings, photographs,...  Read More >>

Like Wordsworth’s Lucy, Floyd Collins’ My Back Pages is memory and wound. Like Poe’s Ligeia, the Teresa of My Back...  Read More >>

What happens in Nebraska? Follow Cat Dixon’s journey across the state as she explores misconnections, unrequited...  Read More >>

The millions of fans of Dracula and Harry Potter consist of all ages and varied enthusiasm, ranging from a curious...  Read More >>

A sometimes satirical reflection on hope in a time of hopelessness, the poems in I Dreamed I Was an Afterthought...  Read More >>

Peripathetic is an essay collection exploring globalised identities in flux.  Read More >>

Holocene Pointbreaks presents a triptych of long poems that veer physically, temporally, and textually across the...  Read More >>

The Horizon Shift Sideways displays an informed curiosity about the natural world and the creatures that inhabit...  Read More >>

Chester is the first Australian poet to write poetry in the jokey, colloquial style of what is known as the New...  Read More >>

Award-winning poet Paul Mitchell's fourth collection is a tour-de-force. As always, he both questions and engages...  Read More >>

Engagingly designed and boasting a wide array of more than fifty Minnesota poets, including Robert Bly, Broad Wings,...  Read More >>

Edited with an introduction by Thomas Ruys Smith (UEA), this is the first proper collection of Mary Sewell's most...  Read More >>

Traces a multifaceted discourse about Denmark in British eighteenth-century and Romantic-period culture.  Read More >>

Focuses on the California Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  Read More >>

Explores communities, manuscripts and their spaces of dwelling  Read More >>

Rethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literary biography.  Read More >>