Literary Studies: from c 1900

In the post-war period, theatre provided an important critique of the way in which British society engaged with issues of the politics of gender an...

The first book to explore Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past and its profound impact on the content and structure of her novels....

The year 2003 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Orwell, one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. Orwell's book...

Kahlil Gibran’s bestselling poetic masterpiece, The Prophet, originally published in 1923, continues to inspire millions worldwide with its timeles...

On March 28, 1941, at the height of Hitler's victories during the Second World War, Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herse...

In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception...

How the Tiananmen Square protest and massacre haunts the work of writers in the Chinese diaspora.

An introduction to the themes of a still-evolving American ethnic literature

This book presents a series of detailed textual analyses of a range of Tzaras poetry. It explores use theories of French versification developed by...

As the former editor of Canadian Notes & Queries, the world's preeminent magazine of Canadian literary and cultural criticism, Alex Good has es...

Establishing an imaginative space for blackness, four mid-century American writers resist literary segregation

Unbought and Unbossed critically examines the ways black women writers in the 1970s and early 1980s deploy black female characters that transgress ...

Popular genre fiction written by Asian American women and featuring Asian American characters gained a market presence in the late twentieth and ea...

A look at how West African and Caribbean Francophone writers use rhythm, music, and sound to create and negotiate identity

Establishing an imaginative space for blackness, four mid-century American writers resist literary segregation

While most critical studies of interwar literary politics have focused on nationalism, Patrick Query makes a case that the idea of Europe intervene...

Exploring the fantastic in Spanish American literature as an expression of subversiveness that threatening to undermine the culture

"The big event in poetry for 2015 will likely be the long-awaited resurrection of Frank Stanford, a legendary badass from Arkansas, much of whose p...

Unbought and Unbossed critically examines the ways black women writers in the 1970s and early 1980s deploy black female characters that transgress ...

The Jewish struggle for survival as a spiritual entity after the cohesiveness of Jewish communal life began to disintegrate in the latter decades o...

Popular genre fiction written by Asian American women and featuring Asian American characters gained a market presence in the late twentieth and ea...

The Scenic Imagination argues that the uniquely human phenomenon of representation, as manifested in language, art, and ritual, is a scenic event f...

Among The Village Voices 25 Favorite Books of 2006 Winner of the 2007 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Trade Illustrated Book Design cate...