Literature: History & Criticism

The Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India challenges the recent postcolonial readings of European, predominantly Engl...

Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s frequently anthologized story “The ...

Conversations with Nadine Gordimer edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour Nadine Gordimer is one of the contemporary world's mos...

In novel after award-winning novel, Don DeLillo (b. 1936) exhibits his deep distrust of language and the way it can conceal as much as it reveals. ...

Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became i...

Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades studies the two periods in which Americans were actively encouraged to exca...

Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction is a critical overview of the appearances and consequences of racism in English-Canadian fiction publi...

The Drama of the Portrait examines the motif of portraiture in Spanish Golden Age theater, drawing from a wide range of drama and imagery to enrich...

Transforming academic and popular understanding of this pivotal but, until now, largely under-researched literary figure, this volume offers the fi...

For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life-in conversation and correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlor entertai...

First published in 1909, in an era of receding interest in Classical authors, this volume aimed to encourage a renewed interest in the Classics thr...

Dystopia, from the Greek dus and topos “bad place,” is a revelatory genre and concept that has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity at the sta...

     "Plant's study is sorely         needed at this point in the evolving critical assessment of Hurston. It         is a paradigm for the study o...

Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society examines the transcultural patterns that have been enriching Irish literature...

Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril Bi...

Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value o...

The first full-length book devoted to Japan's 1994 Nobel Laureate, The Marginal World of Kenzaburo Ôe introduces the literary universe bursting wit...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Anti-Empire explores how...

This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in ...

This volume places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding Victorian print world and tells the story of his career against a background of...

This book investigates the contemporary conceptions of the Jewish figure on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Taking on what has been said about ...

The rise of New Literacy Studies and the shift from studying reading and writing as a technical process to examining situated literacies—what peopl...

This book studies children’s and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory ...

Presents the works of Ann Yearsley, a laboring-class poet' whose writing forms part of an under-represented area of romanticism. This work includes...

This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens’ poetry parallel concepts and techniques f...

First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study...

This book is based on the most powerful political figure of the nineteenth century – Queen of England and Empress of India, Victoria Regina. It ill...

Set against the backdrop of a rapidly fissuring disciplinary landscape where poetry and science are increasingly viewed as irreconcilable and unrel...

Romance was criticized for its perceived immorality throughout the Renaissance, and even enthusiasts were often forced to acknowledge the shortcomi...

In der Untersuchung wird aufgezeigt, wie deutschsprachige Autoren südosteuropäischer Herkunft transkulturelle Räume in ihren Werken artikulieren un...

In her compelling reexamination of Djuna Barnes's work, Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, ide...

Perspectives on America's greatest living playwright that explore his longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theaterArthur Miller's...

Sait-on bien quel historien singulier ce fut que l’auteur du Siècle de Louis XIV? Voltaire a si peu déguisé son parti pris qu’on finirait par ne pl...

This book is a study of twentieth century Polish literature in the contexts of queer theory, psychoanalysis and modernism studies. It presents read...

The purpose of this book is to present to scholars, students and enthusiasts in the fields of literature and linguistics a way to study a text anal...

What do R.K. Narayan, G.V. Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi, and Salman Rushdie have in common? They represent Indian writing i...

In her lively and accessibly written book, Juliet McMaster examines Jane Austen’s acute and frequently uproarious juvenile works as important in th...

In both feminist theory and Shakespearean criticism, questions of sexuality have consistently been conflated with questions of gender. First publis...

Madame Bovary ranks among the world’s most famous and widely read novels, and has inspired numerous critical theories. First published in 1987, thi...

Ways of Reading is a best-selling textbook for undergraduate students of English Language and English Literature, providing readers with the tools ...

Editor Howard Goldblatt explains that while most societies analyse and revere their literary trends in retrospect, post-Liberation China’s literary...