Literary Studies: General

The book explores the extent to which aspects of Julius Caesar’s self-representation in his commentaries, constituent themes and characterization h...

Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, an...

Anglo-India's regional literature was both a practical and imaginative response to a pivotal period in the early colonialism of South Asia.Awarded ...

How practices from the digital analysis of texts both simplify and enhance traditional literary criticism.Honorable Mention, NAVSA Best Book of the...

In addition to contributing significantly to the growing field of Burroughs scholarship, Burroughs Unbound also directly engages with the growing f...

"Astute." Times Literary SupplementBeginning in the late 1930s, this is the first book-length critical study of Larkin’s early work: his poetry, no...

Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England compares the intellectual, emotional, and religious world of Dante in 13th-century Florence with...

How eighteenth-century writers stretched systems designed to explain social relations to their breaking point, showing the flaws in their design.Th...

In this comparative and hybrid study, Reginald A. Wilburn offers the first scholarly work to theorize African American authors’ rebellious appropri...

Addressing the diverse ways in which eighteenth-century contemporaries of different nations and cultures created visual, verbal, and material repre...

Originally published in 1979. Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last plays; and i...

The Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) has been recognized as a decisive past master in the emergence of contemporary media theo...

Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy is an international collection of fresh digital approaches for teaching Shakespeare. It describes 15 methodologies...

Following the material turn in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children’s fiction written...

Shakespeare and Moral Agency presents a collection of new essays by literary scholars and philosophers considering character and action in Shakespe...

First published in 1970, The Unfolding of The Seasons provides an interpretation and evaluation of James Thomson’s poem The Seasons. Professor Cohe...

Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightf...

First published in 1968, The World of Pope’s Satires is a stimulating and challenging book showing how the satires written by Pope during the 1730s...