Literature: History & Criticism

The modern-day suburb began, and began booming, in 19th-century Britain. As suburbia spread, the New Woman arose and fin-de-siecle concerns grew...

Notable writersincluding UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglowcelebrate our fascination with the hous...

Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renew...

What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the coauthors of Sovereignty, Inc. argue, then Trump ass...

The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for this...coloniality constructs outsides and insides--worlds to be chosen, disturbed, interpret...

Hybrid Tapestries provides an extensive historical map of Pakistani English literature: it traces the narrative to its multiple origins, including ...

Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest c...

An essential biography of one of the Bibles most powerful and inspiring booksExodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, but it may rank first i...