Literature: History & Criticism

Unique individuals of fiery temperament, Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound made an odd pair on the streets of 1920s Paris. If the elder cane-carry...

In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at t...

This essential research work for Voltaire scholars reproduces Voltaire''s own annotations written in the margins of the books in his library, now o...

The third volume of the Corpus des notes marginales , long since out of print, was first published by Akademie-Verlag in Berlin, East Germany, in ...

Contains the first ten books from the series.

Nordic Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction, Film and TV by Britain's leading expert on crime fiction, Barry Forshaw, is ...

Chinese martial arts novels from the late nineteenth century are filled with a host of suggestive sounds. Characters cuss and curse in colorful dia...

In over fifteen years, the cultural and artistic response to 9/11 has been wide-ranging in form and function. As the turbulent post-9/11 years have...