Literary studies: general books

In the 1990s and 2000s, at a time when newly-reunified Germany seemed to be turning towards its future, public debates...  Read More >>

What does it mean to be contemporary? To write contemporary fiction? In this major collection of twenty-five essays...  Read More >>

Confrontational Readings explores the manifold relationships between neo-avant-garde literatures. In the areas represented...  Read More >>

Adapting the Canon brings together some of the most recent and exciting research in the growing field of adaptation...  Read More >>

Lauded by many as one of twentieth-century Spain's greatest poets, José Ángel Valente (1929-2000) remains one of...  Read More >>

Galician literature has historically played an integral role in the consolidation of Galician identity. Yet female...  Read More >>

Since 1714 Catalan culture has had a troubled relationship with the Spanish state, which sometimes tolerated and...  Read More >>

The essays collected in this volume trace the evolution over a period of thirty years of a critical approach resembling...  Read More >>

Mary Shelley in Europe studies the European background of Mary Shelley's works and their reception.  Read More >>

In this lucid and provocative study, Andrew Hines provides an intellectual history of the influence of Friedrich...  Read More >>

As the most successful comic dramatist at the court of Louis XIV, Molière was certainly known to his London counterparts....  Read More >>

Ovid's gruesome tale of rape, mutilation, and revenge, transformed into Philomena and retold in French octosyllables,...  Read More >>

From accounts of migration and stories of personal alienation, through the fragmented memories of former incarnations,...  Read More >>

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Accompanied by comprehensive introductions and here translated into English for the first time, the two texts presented...  Read More >>

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This book rewrites modern intellectual history, taking Dante’s lyrical language in Paradiso as enacting a Trinitarian...  Read More >>

Euhemerism and Its Uses is an inter-disciplinary volume, bringing together experts on classical, mediaeval and Renaissance...  Read More >>

This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as...  Read More >>

This book argues that postcolonial realism is intimately connected to the specifically political in the sense that...  Read More >>

Bringing together studies of a range of texts, this volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular...  Read More >>

This book analyses why Indians have been made invisible in Vietnamese society and historiography.  Read More >>

This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured...  Read More >>

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight....  Read More >>

"Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature aims to study the authors of what was previously...  Read More >>