Literary Studies: General

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust. What would the world be like without this work, where would we be if...

In 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardeners daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veroneses account focuses on...

During Walt Whitman's decade in Washington, DC, 1863-1873, he labored intensely, at times seeming to have three lives at once. He wrote the most di...

In twelfth-century Byzantium, poetry played a key part in various contexts of textual production and consumption. One of the leading poets of this ...

An engaging study of Black Feminism as expressed through literature written by and about Black girlsIn Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhoo...

Fiction lies in order to tell the truth and seeks reality through shadows. Philosophy attempts to dispel false realities; it pursues clear under...

Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Womens Writing examines the most common types of Eating Disorders (EDs) - anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa...

In Yeats and Afterwords, contributors articulate W. B. Yeats's powerful, multilayered sense of belatedness as part of his complex literary method. ...

During the Aegean Bronze Age (ca. 30001500 BCE), the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. The dyes included those mad...

Planet Auschwitz explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing ...

Wide-ranging examination of women's achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture. Medieval women were normally denied access ...

Although Richard Rolle, hermit of Hampole, was perhaps the most influential spiritual author of the later English Middle Ages, the coming of print ...

In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britains most lionized living novelists. Like many popular writers of the period, Besant suffered ...

This book explores Wordsworths extraordinary influence on the tourist landscapes of the Lake District throughout the age of railways, motorcars and...

This book examines Samuel Becketts unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanisms postwar crisisthe courage to go on living even after experienc...

This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Batailles essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. In ...

Spain alone produced a Renaissance drama comparable to that of England, yet the two nations were enemies, separated by the worldwide conflict of Ca...

Liminal periods in politics often serve as points in time when traditional methods and principles organizing society are disrupted. These periods o...

Established in 1935, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent around 6,500 unemployed historians, teachers, writers, and librarians out to document ...

In a career that spanned over thirty years, Iain M. Banks became one of the best-loved and most prolific writers in Britain, with his space opera s...

What does the sublime sound like? Harmonious, discordant, noisy, rustling, silent? Miranda Eva Stanyon rereads and resounds this crucial aesthetic ...

The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries...