Literary Studies: General

The reactionary Comicsgate campaign against alleged forced diversity in superhero comics revealed the extent to which comics have become a key batt...

This book is one English professors assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warning...

There are sons who grow up unhappily believing that no matter what they do, they cannot please their fathers. Often unable to shed their sense of l...

In recent years, the biographical novel has become one of the most dominant literary forms-J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Colum McCa...

Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanctioned mother tongue about another langu...

This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not...

The original Blackfriars closed its doors in the 1640s, ending over half-a-century of performances by men and boys. In 2001, in the Shenandoah Val...

Since the premiere of his play FOB in 1979, the Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang has made a significant impact in the U. S. and beyond...

Edward Said was an exiled individual - the 'out of place' Palestinian in the USA. He saw the consequences of the 1948 dismantling of Palestine and ...

Animals were omnipresent in the everyday life and the visual arts of classical Greece. In literature, too, they had significant functions.This book...

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a...

Topics covered include New Citizenship Studies, an emergent methodology for reading the role of literature in the cultural making and unmaking of c...

Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the mora...

Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the mora...

Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse to...

Company was first composed in English over two years, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this m...

This book offers a detailed analysis of Chinas original view of literature and art theory and critical practice from the ancient to the modern peri...

Prompted by the need for accessible teaching materials on Central Asian literature and history, this anthology surveys the literature of modern Cen...

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a...

These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatts essays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921...

Current research in Sociology of Disability has a tendency to assume that very little written in this area until the last 20 years. However, this i...

Doing English presents the ideas and debates that shape how we do English today, explaining arguments about the value of literature, the canon, Sha...

From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning si...

Covering a wide range of textual forms and geographical locations, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing: New Contexts, New Narrative...