Literary studies: general books

The book is an investigation into the ways in which ideas of place are negotiated, contested and refigured in environmental...  Read More >>

This monograph is the first book-length comparative study of family novels from Ireland and India.  Read More >>

This volume of critical essays meditates on the evidence and representation of the ghostly in the visual, literary,...  Read More >>

"Approaching Wordsworth’s entire poetic and prosaic oeuvre from perspectives which have not been considered in critical...  Read More >>

Prison Writing and the Literary World offers scholarly essays exploring international prison writings in relation...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States extends the growing body of scholarship on Shakespeare’s...  Read More >>

Pornographic Sensibilities stages a conversation between two fields—Medieval/Early Modern Hispanic Studies and Porn...  Read More >>

This book addresses how contemporary prose fiction from Germany, Flanders, and the Netherlands deals with the memory...  Read More >>

Tackling the contentious subject of Dickens and religion, this book sets his religious quest within the context...  Read More >>

Revisiting Italy focuses on the convergence of political advocacy, gender ideologies, national identity, and literary...  Read More >>

This volume explores the complex and surprising intersections of literature, history, ethics, affect, and social...  Read More >>

This book aims to display the underpinnings and subtle references of racism and xenophobia embedded deep into literary...  Read More >>

This book examines utopian/dystopian fiction’s enduring preoccupation with memory, asserting through readings of...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of ‘unspeakable’...  Read More >>

This book explores various representations and productions of love magic in medieval and early modern Iberian fictions....  Read More >>

This collection builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman world is bound up with the experience...  Read More >>

This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualize the intricacies of...  Read More >>

The Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis argues that fandom offers new models for a twenty-first century...  Read More >>

This book explores the works of women writers and filmmakers across the African and African Diaspora world, reflecting...  Read More >>

This book reflects on the ‘literary’ in literature. Whether oral expression, Nobel laureates, or the rupturing event,...  Read More >>

The book draws on the history of economics, literary theory, and the history of science to explore how European...  Read More >>

The Story of Attila in Prose is the first critical edition and translation of the thirteenth century Franco-Italian...  Read More >>

The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature explores the vital motif of the tree of life...  Read More >>

A collection of essays that investigates Charles Dickens’ views about the uses and abuses of the tenets of Christian...  Read More >>