Literary Studies: General

A richly illustrated study of the interplay of word and image in representations of the English countryside, built environment, and domestic space ...

First full-length investigation into Canadian literary medievalism as a discrete phenomenon. The essays in this volume consider what is original a...

Covering the works of Canadian authors Alistair Macleod, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart, Margaret Atwood and Drew Hayden Taylor, the author exp...

In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Vi...

The year 1941 was a turning point for the world, but long-time Shanghai resident Ruth Hill Barr had no way of knowing that when she started her fiv...

One of America's leading authorities on Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane combine analyses of both women to explore their collaborative pro...

James Lee Burke is an acclaimed writer of crime novels in which protagonists battle low-life thugs who commit violent crimes and corporate execu...

This response to the current crisis in the field of literary studies describes the fundamental flaws of poststructuralist literary criticism, wh...

The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, James Baldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on in the eloquent and still-relevan...