Literary studies: general books

Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material...  Read More >>

Michael Bérubé explores the surprising insights of classic and contemporary works of SF that depict civilizational...  Read More >>

Examines literary and historical adoptions and constructions of childhood in Romantic-era England to reveal their...  Read More >>

Why are abnormal figures at the heart of literary canon and what do they tell us about the society that writes and...  Read More >>

"In the second volume of The Weight of Words Series, Jeremy Black continues his efforts to present and preserve...  Read More >>

This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century...  Read More >>

In times that are rife with complex manifestations of identity politics, writing classrooms across the world are...  Read More >>

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

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

Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on...  Read More >>

This is a book of meditative reading with an aim to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades...  Read More >>

I argue for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public...  Read More >>

This book is a significant new contribution to understanding both sports and the arts, not just in their separate...  Read More >>

Michael Bérubé explores the surprising insights of classic and contemporary works of SF that depict civilizational...  Read More >>

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Explores the way that characters and figures in Victorian literature and visual art encountered and observed the...  Read More >>

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Essays by Anne Lake Prescott on French and English early modern writers and cultures, from Du Bellay to Spenser,...  Read More >>

This book shows how early drama traditions were transformed, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships...  Read More >>

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics...  Read More >>

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

Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century...  Read More >>

The Old English remedies for women’s reproductive ailments gesture to contemporary notions of bodily autonomy. Close...  Read More >>

This volume provides a collection of ‘imagined lives’—individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy,...  Read More >>