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...