Literary studies: general books

Demonstrates that African elites successfully projected expressions of their sovereignty, wealth, right to power,...  Read More >>

This book explores the great influence of twentieth century artists and art movements on many major writers of the...  Read More >>

Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey describes, with a new archive of correspondence, interviews, and working drafts,...  Read More >>

The Proustian Mind is an outstanding reference source to the rich philosophical range of Proust’s work and the first...  Read More >>

Anne Spencer’s identity as an artist grew from her relationship to the natural world. Do Not Separate Her from Her...  Read More >>

The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies...  Read More >>

Through her formally innovative and psychologically insightful short stories, Katherine Mansfield is increasingly...  Read More >>

Multilingual Literature as World Literature examines and adjusts current theories and practices of world literature,...  Read More >>

Through readings of Ishiguro’s repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination...  Read More >>

Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia—no longer on the map. East Europe of the socialist period may seem like a historical...  Read More >>

The book defines, conceptualizes, and evaluates the insectile pertaining to an entomological fascination in relation...  Read More >>

The book rereads the historiography of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 documented by Bangladeshi, Indian,...  Read More >>

By considering why the desert, and the human story therein, continues to fascinate Western writers, it reveals no...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the...  Read More >>

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and...  Read More >>

This volume examines interactions between fiction and reality in Ireland by studying short stories written by old...  Read More >>

With introductions and biographies from Jack Zipes, and the original illustrations by Kay Nielsen, this collection...  Read More >>

Family Annals, or the Sisters, Mary Hays's last novel, was originally published in 1817. Accompanied by a new introduction,...  Read More >>

Considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the writing of several twentieth and...  Read More >>

An anthology of translated Japanese literature about men behaving lovingly, erotically, and intimately with other...  Read More >>

This book makes José Watanabe’s Antígona available to English readers for the first time, accompanied by the original...  Read More >>

This book is based on the results of the research project “Neologismes per a l’actualització del diccionari normatiu”...  Read More >>

Burning Down the House explores the political, economic and cultural landscape of 21st Century Latin America through...  Read More >>

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Brings together interviews from newspapers, magazines, and podcasts conducted throughout Joe R. Lansdale’s career....  Read More >>