Literature: History & Criticism

Ireland's experience in the nineteenth century was quite different from that of Victorian Britain. Its fictions were written in differing forms li...

This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or...

This volume of essays explores the scope for a further extension of ecocriticism across the environmental humanities. Contributors, who include bot...

A charming children''s book about the return of traditional dancing to one Yup''ik village, Lugiim Yuraa (Lucy''s Dance), written in the Yup''ik ...

Mythologies is a masterpiece of analysis and interpretation. At its heart, Barthess collection of essays about the mythologies of modern life treat...

The Wizard of Oz has captured the imagination of the public since publication of the first of L. Frank Baum's books in 1900. Oz has shaped the way...

Though Latin America has a strong tradition of poetry, many of its best poets remain untranslated in the United States. Elias Nandino (1900-1993...

William Inge's popular plays of the 1950s received Tony nominations (Bus Stop, 1956, and Dark at the Top of the Stairs, 1958) and won a Pulitzer Pr...

Explores the multitude of musical-literary allusions and themes intertwined throughout Tolkien's body of work. Of particular interest is Tolkien's ...

Ever since Superman first appeared on the cover of Action Comics #1 in 1938, the superhero has changed with the times to remain a relevant icon of ...

Transcolonial Maghreb offers the first thorough analysis of the ways in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian writers have engaged with the Palest...