Literature: History & Criticism

Ive had an amazing idea! / Original, brand new and fool-proof / Brilliant, illusory, single-solutionary / Unlike things previous / This is inge...

From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade; Nick and Nora Charles to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin; Harry Lime to Gilda, Madeleine Elster, and other femmes ...

From the Arthurian epic poem Parzival to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and the Assassin's Creed video game ser...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Battles of Our Own (Nija Nija Panipatha) by Jagadish Mohanty (1951-2013), was published in 1990. It is set in the coal mining area of western Odish...

Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and mod...

Soviet Samizdat traces the emergence and development of samizdat, one of the most significant and distinctive phenomena of the late Soviet era, as ...

How should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be properly read and interpreted? This important and t...

My New Years Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of me...

Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trail...

This book explores the concept of quiet an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles and argues for the terms application to the stu...

The poems of Into These Knots, Ashley Anna McHugh's debut collection, glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, interrogating and elucidat...

Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2020'A thought-provoking treatise interwoven with blistered-feet-on-the-ground account...

Arthur Miller's penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would happen if Christ wer...

'In a world in which we tend to look to what's new, to cutting-edge science and to medical breakthroughs for hope in better health, there's somethi...

What is the difference between literal and figurative writing? Is there really a secret set of tricks used by top authors to make their writing eve...

The Literature of Suburban Change examines the diverse body of cultural material produced since 1960 responding to the defining habitat of twentiet...

This book provides a history of the way in which literature not only reflects, but actively shapes processes of globalization and our notions of gl...

Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, they bring aliv...