Literary Theory

Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical change in her own lifetime and beyondThe death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing ...

Early Readers presents a number of innovative ways through which we might capture or infer traces of readers in cultures where most evidence has be...

How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetryIn his 1668 preface to Para...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrot...

The eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant is as daunting as he is influential: widely considered to be not only one of the most challenging ...

The debate on political theology that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to...

Modern Readers explores the myriad places and spaces in which reading has typically taken place since the eighteenth century, from the bedrooms of ...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The legacy of the Second World W...

In the aftermath of the efflorescence of experimental literature and theory that characterized the Trente Glorieuses (1945-75), contemporary French...

This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers wh...

El interes por el Arturo de Bretana continua mas vivo que nunca entre los lectores y los estudiosos contemporaneos. La riquisima bibliografia en in...

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distan...

Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity...

In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain's best-loved and most versatile writers. With Varying Degrees of Success he ...

From the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, this essential guide to James Joyce's masterpiece weaves together plot summaries, interpretive analyses, scho...