Literary Studies: from c 1900

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or...

Artesana de sí misma by Claudia Cabello-Hutt reevaluates the place of Nobel laureateGabriela Mistral in the literary and intellectual history of La...

Canadian writer and journalist Lily Lewis is not a household name. In fact, she never was. The work Lewis is best known for ""Montreal Letter"", a ...

Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manife...

Winner of the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library AssociationAs a teenager, Manuel Chávez (1910-1996) left his native New Mexico ...

Research in urban development in the social sciences has increasingly emphasized the importance of underground infrastructure for envisaging sustai...

La obra de Roque Dalton desperto el interes del Dr. James Iffland al grado de consagrar a su estudio e investigacion mas de veinticinco anos. En es...

Carolina Maria de Jesus' book, Quarto de Despejo (The Trash Room), depicted the harsh life of the slums, but it also spoke of the author's pride in...

Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still...

As a cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, Albert Murray has had a wide-ranging and profound influence on American art in the decade...

These essays explore music and its relationship to language, aesthetics, and culture in the life and work of the preeminent Modernist writer Virgin...

Illustrating a new methodology identified as animality studies, The Birth of a Jungle explores animality at the turn of the twentieth century in th...

Citizenship in Dalit and Indigenous Australian Literatures examines the difference in citizenship as experienced by the communities of Dalits in In...

Since colonial times, Chicano/a literature has varied with the authors' assumptions about the class and gender of their audiences, the linguistic c...

Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface by Jack Zipes, this book presents and examines the work of two little-k...

Engaging with Asian Australian writing, this book focuses on an influential area of cultural production defined by its ethnic diversity and stylist...

A gay poet-historian writing from and about the edges of empiresKnown as a preeminent poet of queer male desire, C. P. Cavafy lived most of his lif...

Paule Marshall (b. 1929) is a major contributor to the canons of African American and Caribbean American literature. In 1959, she published her fir...

Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contempor...

This study of Marcel Proust’s creative imagination examines an aspect of the novel that has hitherto been largely overlooked: the author’s dependen...

The Tigress in the Snow explores how literature reacted to, influenced, and shaped the evolving notion of motherhood in twentieth-century Italy. Fr...

Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism has rarely engaged the experiential knowledge of people with vi...

Since the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked ico...

Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still...

Using a critical lens derived from ecopsychology and its praxis, ecotherapy, this book explores the relationships Madeleine L’Engle develops for he...

The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney offers an in-depth examination of one of the most influential contemporary Irish authors, Sally Rooney, off...

Originally published in 1939, Tobe is a children's book portraying the daily lives of an African American boy and his siblings on a small farm in r...