Literary studies: general books

The influence of Japanese literature and film is evident in Ishiguro’s early novels as he deals with the problem...  Read More >>

Ce recueil de 313 quatrains érotiques fut publié clandestinement pour la première fois en 1927, après la mort de...  Read More >>

This study posits that the Greek romances of late antiquity significantly influenced the works of William Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Enacting a dialogue between medieval studies, feminist thought, and queer theory, Medieval Mobilities proposes that...  Read More >>

This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. Spanning Merwin’s...  Read More >>

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Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore...  Read More >>

This collection of essays explores celebrated Canadian author Carol Shields’s experimentation with the essay genre...  Read More >>

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This book analyzes a range of Edgar Allan Poe’s writing, focusing on new readings that engage with classical and...  Read More >>

Just as the book entails contact zones between scholars working across languages, periods, regions, and disciplines,...  Read More >>

The two romances translated in this volume, the Roman de Thèbes and the Roman d’Eneas, form, along with the Roman...  Read More >>

"History Hub presents a complete biography of Winston Churchill from start to end, whose remarkable story inspires...  Read More >>

The Council of Constantinople of 869-70 was highly dramatic, with its trial and condemnation of Patriarch Photius,...  Read More >>

Breaking new ground in the study of Irish modernity, Richard Howard draws parallels between the narratives of Shaw...  Read More >>

This edition presents and fully contextualizes an archive of letters that reveal the creative and personal significance...  Read More >>

As publishers in private printing presses, as writers of dissident texts and as political campaigners against censorship...  Read More >>

"Der zwischen 1227 und 1231 entstandene Roman de la Violette erzahlt die Geschichte des jungen Grafen Gerard de...  Read More >>

Sidonius Apollinaris was an inhabitant of southern Roman Gaul in the mid fifth centuryAD, when it was threatened...  Read More >>

This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the most important utopian and dystopian literary texts in nineteenth and twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards (Non-Fiction) 2022 Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary book investigates the various ways in which North American and European modern and contemporary...  Read More >>

This is the first volume to reconstruct and examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional...  Read More >>

Through an intimate understanding of the materiality Irish peasants handled on a daily basis, this book presents...  Read More >>