Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

Alice Wickenden uses Hans Sloane's remarkable collection – the founding core of the British Library and British...  Read More >>

Written for literary and animal studies scholars, this book shows how animal illnesses influence our cultures and...  Read More >>

Provides a detailed analysis of important work in queer and trans studies over the past thirty years. It centers...  Read More >>

Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica offers a comprehensive reading of a Latin epic from the...  Read More >>

First study of the poetry written after impressionism. It has a wide interdisciplinary range across the fields of...  Read More >>

In this book, the leading Brazilian cultural theorist Flora Süssekind analyses the turbulent recent history of Brazil....  Read More >>

The very first book-length study of theatre censorship in France between the end of the Ancien Régime and the Restoration....  Read More >>

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This is a book about the archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed...  Read More >>

Music as Classical Reception investigates the enduring importance of music in classical reception, adopting the...  Read More >>

Arguing for the irresistible allure of real and forged Syrian goods for English consumers in the Middle Ages, E....  Read More >>

Quintus Ennius (239–169 BCE) was Latin literature's extraordinary founding father: he composed in a striking array...  Read More >>

'Crossing the Jordan' is a Christian poetry collection rich with themes of redemption, deliverance, and freedom....  Read More >>

On November 12, 2021, in recognition of the bicentennials of both Bartholomew County and the city of Columbus, Indiana,...  Read More >>

Poetry is an emotion, an idea, it is what I dream of, a balance of true purity fantasy and serenity. That can include...  Read More >>

Step into a realm where the uplifting melodies of symphonic metal inspire worlds of magic, peril, and wonder. This...  Read More >>

From Griffin to Axolotl examines the resurgence of the medieval bestiary genre in contemporary Hispanic literature....  Read More >>

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This examination of thirty-two ghost stories by twenty-one Victorian women writers defines a new genre, feminist...  Read More >>

With critical commentary by L.M. Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre, Schooled with Briars reprints six of Montgomery's...  Read More >>

A strategic reconstruction of modern German thought from the standpoint of aesthetic theory. Focusing on seminal...  Read More >>

A comprehensive collection of translated sources on the wars and world of Alexander's successors Successors to...  Read More >>

The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the...  Read More >>