Literary Studies: General

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...

Since the appearance of her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960a book that undermined the nations ideal of innocent and pious Irish girlhoodEdn...

Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrat...

Matthew Wright brings Menanders Samia to life by explaining how it achieves its comic effects and how it fits within the broader context of fourth-...

How does a writer approach a novel about a real person? In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, Dav...

Modernism and Its Environments surveys new developments in modernist studies inspired by ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Taking a fr...

Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflec...

This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. It is intende...

Viennas Dreams of Europe puts forward a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austrias place in Europe since the Enlightenment. F...

Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the ...

In 1962, The Christian Century published C. S. Lewiss answer to the question, What books did most to shape your vocational attitude and your philos...

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid X, giving full Latin text, co...

Winner of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Edited Volume Prize Bringing together works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, central ...

Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. This book is the first comprehensive study of Hedayat's...

What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, S...