Literature: History & Criticism

Lawrence Krader (1919-1998) was an American philosopher and anthropologist. His enormous writings addressed a wide range of subjects in the fields ...

Mudie's Select Library was a major nineteenth-century literary institution. Substantially larger than its competitors, the library leveraged region...

Makiko Minow coined the phrase 'lesbian modernism' in 1989. Since then, scholars of lesbian modernism have produced crucial work to critique and ex...

This book offers a novel critical intervention in medical humanities, foregrounding the importance of spaces and senses in medical experiences. It ...

This first book-length study of Anna Kavan's writing contradicts earlier critical approaches that have figured her writing as sui generis by readin...

Shakespeares Theater of Nature explores nature in Shakespeares plays not just as a source of pastoral nostalgia but also as a vital agent of knowle...

New perspectives on women's contributions to periodical culture in the era of modernismThis collection highlights the contributions of women writer...

Academics, researchers, postgraduates, upper level undergraduates, educated general readers in Fin de Sicle, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cult...

Provides new perspectives on women's print media in the long eighteenth centuryThis innovative volume presents for the first time collective expert...

Explores the many ways in which Anthony Trollope is being read in the twenty-first centurySince the turn of the century, the Victorian novelist Ant...

A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the presentThis authoritative reference work examines literary and artisti...

Foregrounds the diversity of periodicals, fiction and other printed matter targeted at women in the postwar periodForegrounds the diversity and the...

New scholarly essays on the short story in English as a phenomenon of world literatureThis collection explores the history and development of the a...

Provides new perspectives on women's print media in interwar BritainThis collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of wome...

Showcases Ezra Pound's close involvement with the arts throughout his careerThe present volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates t...