Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

This book interprets the ideas and concepts that characterize the works of Albert Camus for our contemporary times....  Read More >>

Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity is the first full-length critical study to analyse the...  Read More >>

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Women's Playwriting and the Women's Movement, 1890-1918 is the first designated study of British women's drama from...  Read More >>

The Old French 'Rothelin' Continuation of William of Tyre's Historia provides one of the best contemporary narratives...  Read More >>

Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature contends that much of modernist writing and thought reveals a...  Read More >>

The so-called 'Templar of Tyre' is the third and longest section of an important 14th-century chronicle known as...  Read More >>

This Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe...  Read More >>

This concise encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters...  Read More >>

The Death of Sacred Texts draws attention to a much neglected topic in the study of sacred texts: the religious...  Read More >>

A significant and central intervention into the field of Contemporary Literature, this volume focuses on fiction...  Read More >>

W.H. Auden famously claimed poetry makes nothing happen. Through chapters on figures from Coleridge and Tennyson...  Read More >>

The Arctic has traditionally been a space for adventure, the exotic and the fantastic, while more recent works have...  Read More >>

In a timely and radically new reappraisal of George Orwell's fiction, Loraine Saunders reads Orwell's novels as...  Read More >>

Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association...  Read More >>

This selection of over 200 texts, nearly all appearing for the first time in English translation, provides a close-up...  Read More >>

This book employs principles from actor-network theory (ANT) to explore the making of the English translation of...  Read More >>

Guillaume de Machaut, a man famous for both his poetry and his musical compositions, wrote his Prise d'Alexandrie...  Read More >>

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Maecenas remains shadowy despite being vital to the success of Augustus. Based on sustainable evidence this study...  Read More >>

This book offers a compelling study of contemporary developments in European migration studies and the representation...  Read More >>

Containing over 50 essays by leading and new scholars, this Companion is the ultimate guide to picturebooks.  Read More >>

This book explores the concept of liminality in the representation of women in eighteenth and nineteenth century...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and Altruism identifies a compelling theme, namely, the view that Jane Austen propounds a rigorous,...  Read More >>

This book examines the poetics of autobiographical masterpieces written by Leila Abouzeid, Hanan al-Shaykh, Samuel...  Read More >>