Literary Theory

How was it possible for opponents of slavery to be so vocal in opposing the practice, when they were so accepting of the economic exploitation of w...

One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in ...

Few works can claim to form the foundation stones of one entire academic discipline, let alone two, but Thucydides's celebrated History of the Pelo...

Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Although he is well kn...

A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through r...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In the 1970s, the invention of the home...

Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs charts the aesthetic and political formation of neoliberalism and globalization in Israeli and Palestinian liter...

This thoroughly updated fourth edition of Critical Theory Today offers an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-dep...

Our Common Future is a joint work produced in 1987 by a United Nations commission headed by former Norwegian Prime Minister, Gro Brundtland. Also k...

Dynamic Form traces how intermedial experiments shape modernist texts from 1900 to 1950. Considering literature alongside painting, sculpture, phot...

A new reading of the sexual politics of 1930s leftist prose genresIt is well known that many of the best-known queer writers of the 1930s were invo...

Martin Luther Kings policy of non-violent protest in the struggle for civil rights in the United States during the second half of the twentieth cen...

Featuring a number of pioneering essays by the internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection...

In Marx's Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx's work results from a fa...