Literary studies: general books

Provides a comprehensive and systematic treatment of the life and work of Aristophanes A Companion to Aristophanes...  Read More >>

A collection of essays exploring medieval rape culture, survivors’ speech, and female subjectivity in a late medieval...  Read More >>

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Describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. This book...  Read More >>

The village of Reykholt in Borgarfjörðr, Iceland, is probably best known for its thirteenth-century occupant, Snorri...  Read More >>

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals,...  Read More >>

A pressing call to an accessible, nonconformist feminism for Black women  Read More >>

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David F. Slade's critical edition elucidates the 1695 Peruvian treatise on the birth of short-lived conjoined twins...  Read More >>

This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature....  Read More >>

Unravels the disparities of representation in the fields of comics studies and comics publishing. Through topically...  Read More >>

Collects twenty-six interviews that range from 1986 to 2023 and reflect the international resonance of Nigerian...  Read More >>

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Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public....  Read More >>

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages.  Read More >>

The first complete translation of a fascinating piece of Czech literature.  Read More >>

Critical edition with facing-page English translation of the fourteenth-century Il Tristano Riccardiano, MS 1729....  Read More >>

This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe’s novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary...  Read More >>

This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language...  Read More >>

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This book draws on the legacy of Canadian scholar Barbara Godard and her work in establishing the Canadian literary...  Read More >>

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals,...  Read More >>

"William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) graduated from Rutgers College in 1869 and taught four years in Fukui and Tokyo....  Read More >>

A pressing call to an accessible, nonconformist feminism for Black women  Read More >>

How Indigenous creators impact the landscape of superhero, science fiction, historical, and experimental comics...  Read More >>