Literature: History & Criticism

From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid chan...

Mr Hoopdriver is an overworked Londoner who spends most every day servilely waiting on customers at his job as a draper's assistant. When it comes ...

In this latest collection of poems and verse-essays, Christopher Norris revisits many of the topics for which he is best known as a philosopher, li...

An illustrated guide to one of the most enduring masterworks of world literatureWritten in the eleventh century by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki...

Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history....

Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet...