Literary studies: general books

"This book makes the case that the idea of a ""world"" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively...  Read More >>

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This book explores the way in the Sagas of Icelanders depict the barbarity of foreign peoples, both abroad and in...  Read More >>

"Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the ""darker side"" of Latin America for global...  Read More >>

This book addresses the representation of Alzheimer’s disease in U.S contemporary fiction through the lens of memory...  Read More >>

Byzantine Childhood examines the intricacies of growing up in Medieval Byzantium, children’s everyday life experiences,...  Read More >>

This book investigates the role of examples in shaping arguments and thought, both in philosophy and in everyday...  Read More >>

This volume seeks to investigate the representation of the migrant and migration in literary texts and the arts....  Read More >>

This book investigates the backdrop of modern ideas about history, delving into a variety of aesthetic-historical...  Read More >>

Differentiating informality from intimacy in its introduction, Illegitimate Freedom: Informality in Modernist Literature,...  Read More >>

‘Memory and Nation-building’ turns to the contemporary images of World War II in Malaysian literature to explore...  Read More >>

Migrating Minds contributes to the prominent interdisciplinary domain of Cosmopolitan Studies with twenty innovative...  Read More >>

This book distinguishes itself from previous scholarship by offering an inclusive and comprehensive treatment of...  Read More >>

This is the first sustained study of the politics of form in contemporary Australian Aboriginal fiction. Poetics...  Read More >>

This volume presents a fresh look at the military spouses in Shakespeare’s Othello, 1 Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Troilus...  Read More >>

This volume explore the connection between the prevalence of violent, sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Eliza Haywood’s writing career spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals, periodicals, propaganda,...  Read More >>

This study investigates the relationship between Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918-2007), his bestselling 1973 novel...  Read More >>

This collection of essays examines how Virginia Woolf’s iconic figure and canonical oeuvre is recycled in contemporary...  Read More >>

This volume collects essays that push the study of transatlantic connections between nineteenth-century U.S. and...  Read More >>

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This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who through their writings...  Read More >>

To make sense of the material afterlives of animals, this book draws together multispecies perspectives from literary...  Read More >>

This collection is the first of its kind to interrogate both literal and metaphorical transatlantic exchanges of...  Read More >>

Teaching in Times of Crisis explores how comparative methods that are instrumental in reading and teaching works...  Read More >>