Literary studies: general books

Sarah Derbew brings into brilliant new focus varied portrayals...  Read More >>

"""The first work to bring together women authors and editors of science fiction, horror and fantasy to speak about...  Read More >>

This Element looks at the art of the actress in the eighteenth century. It shows how visual materials across genres...  Read More >>

First published in 1947, The Last Romantics elucidates on the major preoccupations of the leaders of thought in...  Read More >>

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From the celebrated national bestselling novelist and critic,...  Read More >>

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Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize From the internationally best-selling writer, a masterful account...  Read More >>

This study guide focuses on the explanation and analysis of The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli, one the most influential...  Read More >>

"From the celebrated national bestselling novelist and critic,...  Read More >>

This book offers an account of how the modern idea of the literary emerged, through the colonial archives. Situated...  Read More >>

Through a range of accessible and innovative chapters dealing with a spectrum of genres, authors, and periods, this...  Read More >>

Tracing a line of transatlantic aesthetics and gendered productions of modernism, this monograph reveals the centrality...  Read More >>

"""Focuses on a range of Jewish and non-Jewish writers in Europe and the Americas to examine the intersection of...  Read More >>

Exploring the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity, Kate Cook demonstrates that...  Read More >>

"""The first work to bring together women authors and editors of science fiction, horror and fantasy to speak about...  Read More >>

This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order...  Read More >>

"""Featuring contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars, this book explores the globality of...  Read More >>

Exploring novels by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend Warner as political theology...  Read More >>

"""This innovative study asks how genocide can be witnessed through imaginative literature and affect readers who...  Read More >>

Challenging the notion that the 19th-century was a time of declining faith, this book demonstrates instead that...  Read More >>

"""Explores influential historical fictions about the Holocaust that deploy narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman...  Read More >>

""A philosophically grounded exploration of the hyperbolic realism of Pynchon and Bolaäno within the broader context...  Read More >>

This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic...  Read More >>

Minnesang, Sangspruch und Leich – die drei Hauptgattungen der deutschsprachigen Lyrik des Hochmittelalters stehen...  Read More >>