Literary studies: general books

This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish...  Read More >>

Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world.  Read More >>

This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and 'renegades'...  Read More >>

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In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany...  Read More >>

What do we really mean when we call something ""graphic""? In American Graphic, Rebecca Clark examines the ""graphic""...  Read More >>

Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism...  Read More >>

This volume offers a fresh look at the Silvae of Statius, a collection eschewing any generic ‘label’ and depending...  Read More >>

The author and six historical characters of his own choosing tell tales and guide you through the artistic and literary...  Read More >>

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Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions offers an array of relevant texts, in English for the first time, that...  Read More >>

"On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation,...  Read More >>

This book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural...  Read More >>

This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of...  Read More >>

Up-to-date information on some 7,000 institutions and approx. 12,000 persons in public life in Bavaria: authorities...  Read More >>

In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany...  Read More >>

What do we really mean when we call something ""graphic""? In American Graphic, Rebecca Clark examines the ""graphic""...  Read More >>

Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism...  Read More >>

A lively and accessible introduction to Machado de Assis and his work  Read More >>

Examines how precarious economic figures in texts by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, and more queered...  Read More >>

"""Quit The Fucking Alcohol"" is a phrase that suggests a strong desire or determination to stop consuming alcohol....  Read More >>

This volume brings together studies on the diverse ways that the genres and usage of hymns and sequences transformed...  Read More >>

Images make what is absent present and validate it. Fiction therefore seems to encourage visual fantasy in particular....  Read More >>

The conditions of writing as a cultural technique are subject to technical, material, institutional, socio-cultural,...  Read More >>

This volume unites not just the first editions of Christine's de Pizan military and warfare treatise (1410), but...  Read More >>