Literature: History & Criticism

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 ...

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 ...