Literary studies: general books

Building on aesthetic, sociological, and literary theories, the author focuses on a selection of novelists from...  Read More >>

This book examines Louis Sébastien Mercier’s impassioned representations of social injustice in Paris at the end...  Read More >>

Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist Felix Lope de Vega (1562-1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature....  Read More >>

While Merry is the poet most commonly associated with the Della Cruscan school, this book argues that Della Cruscanism...  Read More >>

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More than just beings subject to metamorphosis, Ovid's poems portray hybrid creatures. These studies analyze this...  Read More >>

The second volume of the complete works of Joachim du Bellay gathers the collections and pieces from 1549-1550,...  Read More >>

Based on a study of specific passages of the text, this work demonstrates the specificity and literary value of...  Read More >>

This reference study places the writing of the Essais in its historical, social, and economic context. Fundamentally...  Read More >>

This reference edition contains the complete version of the most famous anti-Catholic League pamphlet written at...  Read More >>

While comparisons between poetry and painting were commonplace in the poetic arts in the sixteenth century, they...  Read More >>

This book explores the material and cultural history of the Ming Dynasty based on the Chinese magnum opus Xingshi...  Read More >>

Poetic Thinking. Now develops a poetological anthropology and offers a fresh perspective on what it means to be...  Read More >>

Though well-known to many Whitman scholars, Specimen Days is an underrated 'late' prose work which chronicles the...  Read More >>

This volume pays homage to Yann Fremy, a specialist on Rimbaud and Verlaine, who also wrote about a wide range of...  Read More >>

"Reformist ideas began to spread in Provence and Comtat from 1520. The 1530s marked the beginning of the repression...  Read More >>

A true enigma in historical terms, Le Printemps is a collection of Agrippa d'Aubigne's youthful poetry--a lyrical...  Read More >>

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The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important...  Read More >>

This Element allows pastoral letters to be analysed as a distinct literary genre that contributed in complex ways...  Read More >>

This insightful and varied collection of essays uses rare material from archives across Europe to examine the many...  Read More >>

"World Literature as Discovery argues that world literature for our time must go beyond Eurocentrism and expand...  Read More >>

Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone children’s...  Read More >>

Illustrations accompany a fictional rewriting of each of 50 women's stories, followed by a critical analysis of...  Read More >>

A collection of essays that explore how humans understood their relationship with the environment in the Middle...  Read More >>