Literary studies: general books

Patrick West’s Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story cultivates the potential for literary representations...  Read More >>

Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender presents fresh insight into the gender issues and sexual ambiguities...  Read More >>

Employing the literary imaginings of the postcolonial city in texts set in Naples and Mumbai from the 1990s to the...  Read More >>

The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myŏng-sun offers an introduction to Korea’s first modern woman writer to publish...  Read More >>

This book discusses the intrusion of personal voice in British landscape poetry of the eighteenth century. It argues...  Read More >>

This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action...  Read More >>

This book is the first full length study of the postsecular in African literature It explores how postsecular negotiations...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare’s...  Read More >>

Aimed at a non-specialist readership, this survey of early modern English literature examines how writers represented...  Read More >>

This book discusses how Dambudzo Marechera rethinks utopia as an ongoing event that contests institutionalized narratives...  Read More >>

Considering Conrad’s transcultural background, this volume investigates the essential features of his expatriate...  Read More >>

This work explores the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood is a collection of multidisciplinary scholarly essays...  Read More >>

Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir,...  Read More >>

This work approaches, from dual perspective of the optimistic transhumanist philosophy and the more balanced perspective...  Read More >>

This collection seeks to expand the centers from which scholars theorize translation, building on themes in Rosemary...  Read More >>

This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia.  Read More >>

This book provides analytical study of the colonial literature of Baghdad in relation to its historiography. The...  Read More >>

Drawing on Foucault-inflected philosophy of technical mediation, Futures of the Human Subject analyzes several recent...  Read More >>

This volume examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of new Indian English fiction to explore the power of language...  Read More >>

Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines...  Read More >>

Enric Valor is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. This selection of his highly popular...  Read More >>

Literature, Education, and Society argues that we must defend our differences from those practical disciplines by...  Read More >>

This collection explores the notion of reframing as a framework for better understanding the multi-agent and multi-level...  Read More >>

This book explores 50 years of Irish women’s prison writing, 1960s-2010s, connecting the work of women leaders and...  Read More >>