Literary Theory

Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face examines the representation of iconic female faces in the golden age of Hollywo...

A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora ...

Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart ...

This book argues that the satire of the late Elizabethan period goes far beyond generic rhetorical persuasion, but is instead intentionally engaged...

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained expl...

Milton Friedman was arguably the single most influential economist of the 20th-century. His influence, particularly on conservative politics in Ame...

Charles Darwin called on a broad and unusually powerful combination of critical thinking skills to create his wide-ranging explanation for biologic...

Richard Dawkins provides excellent examples of his reasoning and interpretation skills in The Selfish Gene. His 1976 book is not a work of original...

Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion...

Friedrich Hayeks 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global polit...

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five or...

Grounded in the literary history of early modern England, this study explores the intersection of cultural attitudes and material practices that sh...

Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodolo...

Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct En...

Rhetoric and Communication scholars have recently made notable advances in discovering and/or recovering rhetorical practices of various under-repr...

This book proceeds from a single and very simple observation: throughout history, and up to the present, women have received a clear message that w...

Paul de Man is often associated with an era of high theory, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading c...

Offering a thoroughly new approach to American literature, this book examines the literary representation of smell regarding its impact on establis...

Ecocriticism and the Poiesis of Form: Holding on to Proteus demonstrates how a fractal imagination helps one hold the form of a poem within the rea...

Grounded in the literary history of early modern England, this study explores the intersection of cultural attitudes and material practices that sh...

Emile Durkheims 1897 On Suicide is widely recognized as one of the foundational classic texts of sociology. It is also one that shows the degree to...

Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vi...

This book places Benjamins writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge. The fundamental problem that faces any a...