Literary studies: general books

Fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically...  Read More >>

In explaining the nature and importance of these thinking skills and the ability of literary study to develop them,...  Read More >>

Provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: why did popular...  Read More >>

After years of studying piano as a young woman, Emily Dickinson curated her music book, a common practice at the...  Read More >>

Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice vigorously engages with the Why? and the How? of prose poetry, a form that is...  Read More >>

A transcultural study of cultural production that brings to light the ways Spanish literature imagined China by...  Read More >>

The Russian writer Aleksandr Grin (18801932) is generally regarded as the author of romantic adventure stories with...  Read More >>

The book provides detailed analyses of twelfe novels written or published around 1700, among which all novels by...  Read More >>

In Ovid's Metamorphoses not only figures are transformed, but also the human environment, including cities. This...  Read More >>

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This volume treats early modern song as a musical and embodied practice and considers the implications of reading...  Read More >>

An anthology of writings by English travellers in the Renaissance that helps students understand travel and colonial...  Read More >>

This book studies the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world together for the first...  Read More >>

The first study to use the critical lens of work to re-evaluate the postwar British avant-garde novel and its fraught...  Read More >>

The essays in Mutopia address the science-fictional imagination’s relevance for scientific modeling, critical theory,...  Read More >>

Necrofiction and The Politics of Literary Memory defines and discusses current ""narratives of the aftermath"" in...  Read More >>

We reveal Latin epic poet Valerius’ empathetic portrayal of animals, and his challenge to assumptions about human...  Read More >>

Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time--fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone....  Read More >>

Examines exiled Caribbean authors - Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse Conde, Dany Laferriere,...  Read More >>

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"This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the ""wordless novels"" of American woodcut artist and...  Read More >>

In explaining the nature and importance of these thinking skills and the ability of literary study to develop them,...  Read More >>

Locating Classed Subjectivities explores representations of social class in British fiction through the lens of...  Read More >>

This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focusses on Underworld...  Read More >>