Literary Studies: from c 1900

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called brilliant. After gaining exclusive access to ...

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called brilliant. After gaining exclusive access to ...

Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of wo...

An affective reading of twentieth-century Afro-Cuban literature focussing on a set of concerns ranging from the filial to the erotic. This book pr...

In Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipita...

Legendary New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell is considered to be among the greatest baseball writers to date. He brought a fans love, a fict...

This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creati...

In a book that compares Virginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (18621952), Molly Hite ...

Russian Nobel prizewinner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (19182008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figuresand perhaps the most importa...

This book is both a study of how James Joyce created two of the most iconic characters in literatureLeopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy Bloomas well as...

This collection of original, concise essays by leading international scholars draws closely on the Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D....

Marking the 50th anniversary of Lewis death, The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis sees leading Christian thinker Alister McGrath offering a fresh ...

Written shortly before her death this book documents the activities of a Muslim princess who rebelled against societal conventions to take an activ...

Long-awaited and comprehensive biography of the great Irish author James JoyceJames Joyce was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century,...

Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic is a compelling new volume in Hélène Cixous's search for lost time. Readers of earlier volumes - Hemlock ...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Richly intelligent insights on every page' ...

In his hard-hitting and controversial book, George Watson examines the foundation texts of socialism to find out what they really say; the result i...

Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi OEzdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this ...

In 1929, Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), a journalist and war correspondent who was on the books of MI6, turned his hand to writing adventure stories f...

The Spring 2020 issue of the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal is dedicated to Pop, a term as disputable as it is ubiquitous. The param...

Explores the depiction of transgender identity in twentieth-century and contemporary literary fictionTransgender and the Literary Imagination is th...

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, William Faulkner was a southerner who became widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers...

In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of ...