Literature: History & Criticism

`The title of journalist is probably very noble, but I lay no real claim to it. I am, I think, a novelist and a musical composer manque: I make no ...

A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchants son became one of the most celebrated of all English poe...

Rereads Antonia White's writing within the context of manic-depressive illnessMisdiagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia instead of what was bipo...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of major works in Japanese literature and film through the interpretive lens of trauma and PTSD studies...

An unconventional history of Philadelphia that operates at the threshold of cultural and environmental studies, A Greene Country Towne expands the ...

The zombie craze has infected popular culture with the intensity of a viral outbreak, propagating itself through text, television, film, video game...

The zombie craze has infected popular culture with the intensity of a viral outbreak, propagating itself through text, television, film, video game...

Rick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The treasure he seeks is scarce, carefully buried a...