Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

""An urgent debut essay collection examining the effects of abandonment, imprisonment, and care, and how the power...  Read More >>

A selection of science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors.  Read More >>

Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and literary genius The Life...  Read More >>

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Last Thoughts on Euripides is a companion to the second edition of volume II of the Oxford Classical Text edition...  Read More >>

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Realism has been disparaged for over a hundred years as an outmoded form, and, more recently, as a pernicious illusion,...  Read More >>

Outlines British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Twenty-one chapters...  Read More >>

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

Joy in literature and culture remains a little-studied subject, one sometimes even viewed with suspicion. Here,...  Read More >>

This is a second edition of the second volume of James Diggle's Oxford Classical Text of Euripides (1981). This...  Read More >>

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This volume with contributions on the literature of the Heisei era (1989-2019) contains analyses of contemporary...  Read More >>

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Mark Janse has spent an entire career being a philhellene. His passion for the Greek language has carried him from...  Read More >>

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Popular Tales From the Norse by George Webbe Dasent presents a wide-ranging anthology of Scandinavian folk narratives,...  Read More >>

Embrace the faults that make us human Pay special attention to the question mark. Be prepared to rethink all you...  Read More >>

This text firmly positions Whitman as a necessary and radical voice within the American poetry canon.  Read More >>

Taking a holistic approach to performances of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this multidisciplinary volume examines...  Read More >>

An illuminating new collection from the latest winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, selected by Germán Guerra and...  Read More >>

""Analyzes the environmental and social complexities of Izaak Walton's famous fishing treatise The Compleat Angler....  Read More >>

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Examining Europe’s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal,...  Read More >>