Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

Winner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels,...

The original edition of Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, published in 2005, was a pathbreaking work of early modern literary history, exploring wo...

In Comics Art in Korea, comics scholar John A. Lent embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the vibrant world of Korean comics, cartoons, comic s...

On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliffs Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (194620...

Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures recalibrates readings of US southern and American writers by expl...

Contributions by Sara Austin, Robert Bittner, J. Bradley Blankenship, Gabriel Duckels, Caitlin Howlett, Isabel Millán, Jennifer Miller, Kaylee Jang...

Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature Artists of the late Soviet era sought new, nonconformist ways of app...

Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature Artists of the late Soviet era sought new, nonconformist ways of app...

Arguing that the well-known cowboy ballad The Streets of Laredo is an early expression of discontent with an encroaching modernity, author JosÉ E. ...

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman wr...

Examining Afro-German artists use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was first coined in the 1990s to d...

Presents alternative categories of fiction through which to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged Africas changing literary terrains Step...

Since the nations founding, Israel has existed in a state of near perpetual warfare. Despite this, Hebrew novels that deal with the experience of c...

Offering guidance and inspiration to English literature instructors, this book faces the challenges of real-life teaching and the contemporary high...

For eighteenth century readers, the contents of a novel were often perceived as part of reality. The first part of this study on the results of thi...

In Off Whiteness: Place, Blood, and Tradition in Post-Reconstruction Southern Literature, Izabela Hopkins explores the remaking of whiteness in the...

First published in 1900, this volume was edited from a unique 1440 A.D. manuscript residing in Salisbury Cathedral. As a penitential manual, it joi...

The Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his la...

Published in 1979: This is a play based on the reign of King John with notes.