Literature: History & Criticism

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...

Was Lucretius a fundamentalist Epicurean and a mere repeater of his Masters words, or did he emerge as an innovative philosopher in his own right? ...

How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveil...

Originally published in 1926, this volume is much more than a biography of an outstanding politician, social reformer and philosopher. It provides ...

Physiological, political, and poetic studies of the relationship between the human body and voice saw increased attention and took on new significa...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. From Rupture to Refuge is a wide-ranging study of both contem...

François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ...

'Imprinted' is a history of reading and the development of a literary culture in the Caribbean from the late 19th century to contemporary times. It...

Aimé Césaire is arguably the greatest Caribbean literary writer in history. Best known for his incendiary epic poem Notebook of a Return to my Nati...

In this compelling new book, A. Robert Lee tackles the questions: how, and why, does a literary work assume the mantle of 'modern'? He shows, with ...

Aimé Césaire is arguably the greatest Caribbean literary writer in history. Best known for his incendiary epic poem Notebook of a Return to my Nati...