Literature: History & Criticism

Following the 1960s, that decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politic...

In Forms of Life, Andreas Gailus argues that the neglect of aesthetics in most contemporary theories of biopolitics has resulted in an overly restr...

This second book in a three-volume work on the young Fyodor Dostoevsky is a diary-portrait of his early years drawn from letters, memoirs, and crit...

Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national ide...

What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetryand about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney m...

A collection of radical political fairy talessome in English for the first timefrom one of the great female practitioners of the genreHermynia Zur ...

An essential history of the greatest love poem ever writtenThe Song of Songs has been embraced for centuries as the ultimate song of love. But the ...

From New National to World English Literature offers a personal perspective on the evolution of a major cultural movement that began with decolonis...

A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the priv...

The roots of children''s literature are commonly known to lie in adaptation. The texts most frequently adapted for a child audience are either cano...