Literature: History & Criticism

Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2013, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most int...

This is an original reading of Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of Western philosophical traditions and counter-traditions. The book portrays Bakhtin...

This is an original reading of Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of Western philosophical traditions and counter-traditions. The book portrays Bakhtin...

Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many surprising ways...

The timely collection of essays is thematically unified around the subject of corporeality. Its theoretical underpinnings emerge out of feminist...

Presents a critical analysis and reflection on fifty heroes, heroines and villains of English and American literature, folklore, history, film and ...

The author of more than 50 books - 125 million copies in print - Clive Cussler is the current grandmaster of adventure literature. Dirk Pitt, the s...

The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name.In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate G...

This work studies the ways vampiric narratives explore the eco-friendly credentials of the undead. Many of these texts and films show the vampir...

Volume 2 of 2. Coleridge's nephew, son-in-law, and first editor, Henry Nelson Coleridge, began at the end of 1822 a record of Coleridge's remarks a...

Hardcore bibliography meets Antiques Roadshow in an illustrated exploration of the role that cheap reprints played in Jane Austen's literary celebr...

John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half h...

How the Civil War endures in American life through literature and culture.Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award's Montaigne MedalThe American Civil Wa...

Intervenesin contemporary debates about the relationship between literature and field recordingA field recording is any audio recording made outsid...