Literature: History & Criticism

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...

Lauded by critics yet largely unappreciated by fans of horror and weird fiction, T.E.D. Klein is considered one of the great horror writers, des...

The Casa Italianaa neo-Renaissance palazzo located on Amsterdam Avenue near 117th Streethas been the most important expression of the Italian prese...

This original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators...

The rise of youth is among the most dramatic stories of modern China. Since the last years of the Qing dynasty, youth has been made a new agent of ...

This is a collection of essays on the life and writing of W.D. Ehrhart, poet, essayist, memoirist and teacher. The twenty contributors - scholars, ...

A seminal figure in Romantic poetry and visual arts, William Blake continues to influence modern literary criticism. In this book, Blake scholar Ha...

Gotlieb is a writer central to the Canadian science fiction canon. Though she has been called the queen of Canadian SF by Robert J. Sawyer, and ...

Is there such a thing as essential Irishness, something which can be experienced, invested in, and politically weaponised? Sacred Weather proposes ...

This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic ...