Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency...  Read More >>

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare's forests, battlefields,...  Read More >>

This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval musical performance,...  Read More >>

Through sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work...  Read More >>

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

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through...  Read More >>

This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers...  Read More >>

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant...  Read More >>

This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video...  Read More >>

The twentieth-anniversary edition of Crush, the passionate and influential poetry collection by Richard Siken  Read More >>

The poems in Susan Suntree's This Time This Place are offered as contemplations of our current moment. Inspired...  Read More >>

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An examination of interrelatedness, influence, and intention in the works of Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau...  Read More >>

Award-winning writer Mark Russell (Batman: Dark Age, Superman: Space Age, Exit, Stage Left!: The Snagglepuss Chronicles)...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to...  Read More >>

Using tanka prose and haibun, this collection explores the self and the world through the senses. It is a quest...  Read More >>

This collection of new poems by self-styled ""Pony Expressionist"" Mike Silverton is augmented by over seventy color...  Read More >>

All the World's a Page unites 57 poets around the world in a vibrant...  Read More >>

Poems of a Forgotten Girl By Lacey Shaikh Milt She was never just a girl. She was the aftermath no one wanted...  Read More >>

""Like someone looking for a lost key, Matthew Murrey searches the world around him-an el platform in Chicago above...  Read More >>

This powerful poetry collection invites readers on a journey through the emotional seasons of a life in transformation....  Read More >>