Literature: History & Criticism

This collection of fifty-seven essays, manifestos, and other prose writings on literature, painting, music, and cinema is drawn from various litt...

The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. ...

A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the anticolonial century. The sparks of co...

Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dichotomy, barbarism functions a...

Best known for his popular crime fiction, Boston novelist George V. Higgins (1939-1999) should stand among the top ranks of the American literar...

Howard Frank Mosher has spent the greater part of his career depicting a relatively isolated section of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom....

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno...

The history of Roman Classical Literature, although it comprehends the names of many illustrious writers and many voluminous works, is, chronologic...

This book describes the technologies that enable real-world robots and drones to be effective killers, including an overview of how artificial inte...

This is a critical comparative study of contemporary world literature, focused on the importance of the ethical turn (or return) in literary theory...

Nadia Anwar presents a compelling reading framework for the study and analysis of selected post-independence Nigerian dramas, using the conceptual ...

Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the questionnaire, a g...