Literature: History & Criticism

A ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century's most iconic writer. Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary ch...

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...

First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century. The precedent of empire and the promise of return lay at ...

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...

In a cultural landscape dominated by hot takes and petty polemics, The Point stands for something different. Informed by the conviction that humani...

Interrogations of materiality and geography, narrative framework and boundaries, and the ways these scholarly pursuits ripple out into the wider cu...

Winner, 2011 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice. Against the...

WINNER of the 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Volume of new essays investigating Kleist's influences and sources both literary and ph...

Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political aims. Like its two immediate predecessors, this volume tackles the most pressing a...

New approaches to this most fluid of medieval genres, considering in particular its reception and transmission. Romance was the most popular secul...

International scholars explore one of the most important postcolonial novels of African literature. Joint winner of Best Non-Fiction Biography, Hu...

Essays bringing out the richness of the hitherto neglected Charlemagne tradition in medieval Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Wales and Ireland. ...

Working hard to survive in a harsh world, the Peppers still find joy and love in their little brown house - until a chance encounter with a wealthy...

An interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the crusades. The interrelation of so-called literary and historical sources of the ...

New approaches to a range of Old English texts. Throughout her career, Professor Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe has focused on the often-overlooked de...