Literature: History & Criticism

The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by ...

This updated and expanded textbook inspires a greater appreciation for literature by studying important literary themes found in comics. By deco...

Finalist for the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de MontrealA writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Rage accumulates. From iconic feminist writer G...

Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto t...

During a remarkable lifetime, Andrew Sinclair has bridged the worlds of university and literature, art and cinema. A child of the Second World War,...

Despite their significance, the writings on Japanese music by Prussian medical scientist and physician Leopold Müller, published in Yokohama in a s...

This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of Jewish-American writers. Whether they reimagine their ancestors' shtetl life or...

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Lewis Carroll, was not only the author of the beloved Alice tales but an inveterate and talented creator of puzzles and g...

To say that graphic novels, comics, and other forms of sequential art have become a major part of popular culture and academia would be a vast u...

This book employs actor-network theory (ANT) to explore the making of the English translation of a work of Chinese canonical fiction, Journey to th...

Since the publication of Twilight in 2005, Stephenie Meyer's four-book saga about the tortured relationship between human heroine Bella Swan and...

An extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of home, through explorations literary and political, philosophical and deeply personal, by the acclaimed...

Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Co...