Literary Studies: General

Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and ins...

It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue. Thus spoke Hamlet, one of the great kvetchers of literature....

This remarkable volume collects, for the first time, essays representing more than four decades of scholarship by one of the world's leading author...

In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of 'the beloved' has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region. T...

Nabokov's Shakespeare is a comprehensive study of an important and interesting literary relationship. It explores the many and deep ways in which t...

Scholarly responses to Henry Millers works have never been numerous and for many years Miller was not a fashionable writer for literary studies. In...

This groundbreaking study examines how modern Colombian literaturefrom Gabriel García Márquez to Juan Gabriel Vásquezreflects one of the worlds mos...

First Place Winner in Non-Fiction from the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Part literary history, part personal memoir, Alice Brittan's bea...

Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. ...

Winner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels,...

The original edition of Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, published in 2005, was a pathbreaking work of early modern literary history, exploring wo...

Black Internationalist Feminism examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the post-World War II Black Communist Left a...

The notion that war plays a fundamental role in the United States' idea of itself obscures the rich--and by no means naïve--seam of anti-war thinki...

By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death ...

Understanding what something is is a project that has long occupied philosophers. Perhaps no thinker in the Western tradition has had more influenc...

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham were the two most acclaimed and commercially successful African American dancers of their era and among the fi...

Combining literary criticism and theory with anthropology and cognitive science, this highly relevant book argues that we are fundamentally shaped ...

Medieval English sermons teem with examples of quantitative reasoning, ranging from the arithmetical to the numerological, and regularly engage wit...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...

First published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive ...

This collection brings together the short fictions published in Peter Motteuxs The Gentlemans Journal, one of the main Restoration periodicals runn...