Literary studies: general books

This book reassesses representations of the unconscious in the early twentieth century, primarily the works of D....  Read More >>

This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before...  Read More >>

Focusing on networks and borders as the central modes of analysis, this book charts for the first time Bohemia’s...  Read More >>

This book adds a unique eastern perspective to the ever growing corpus of Shakespeare criticism and extends the...  Read More >>

Rethinking Place Through Literary Form regards the relationship between place and linguistic form as challenging...  Read More >>

Examines John Ashbery’s poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s conception of phenomenology. Elisabeth...  Read More >>

As a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word ‘tacky’ has distinctly southern origins, with its roots...  Read More >>

Focusing on the poetry and cultural practice of Frank O’Hara, the great urban poet of the New York School during...  Read More >>

While Faulkner’s Ethics does not claim that Faulkner read Sidgwick’s work, this book traces Faulkner’s moral sensitivity....  Read More >>

The essays in this volume highlight the agency, intentionality, and creativity of individuals and groups in the...  Read More >>

This book examines literary representations of mainlander identity articulated by Taiwan’s second-generation mainlander...  Read More >>

This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel, mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience...  Read More >>

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

Traces how English novelists, essayists, and poets of the period sought to represent akrasia in ways philosophy...  Read More >>

Analysing slave narratives, emigration polemics, a murder trial, and black-authored fiction, Andrea Stone highlights...  Read More >>

Tells the story of Wallace Stegner and his family as they made a home just outside of Palo Alto, California, during...  Read More >>

The influence of censorship on the intellectual and political life in the Habsburg Monarchy during the period under...  Read More >>

This book presents the first edition of Trithemius’ major crytographical work with a commentary which clarifies...  Read More >>

This project-based publication aims to bridge the gap between digital and conventional scholarly activity and to...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary compendium to the animal inhabitants of medieval Britain, documents each creature mentioned...  Read More >>

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"In World of Wonders, Alf Hiltebeitel addresses the Mahabharata and its supplement, the Harivamsa, as a single literary...  Read More >>

his volume, long awaited, is an in-depth and comprehensive accounting of Twain’s literary history. Each work read...  Read More >>

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In addition to sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a complicated...  Read More >>