Literature: History & Criticism

This Element reconsiders what the focus of digital literary mapping should be for a subject like English Literature, what digital tools should be e...

This Element reconsiders what the focus of digital literary mapping should be for a subject like English Literature, what digital tools should be e...

Word-pictures crafted by a master artist from everyday moments offer deep reflections on contemporary existence in this poem collection.I lie and l...

'At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn't have let me go if I hadn't. I wasn't going to be stopped, for it was time.' This i...

A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book ...

Conquering Demons examines the origins and influence of three popular anti-Kirishitan (anti-Christian) works from the seventeenth and eighteenth ce...

How early Black prison writing shaped Black intellectual movements   In this book, Andrea Stone recovers critical, understudied writings from ear...

How early Black prison writing shaped Black intellectual movements   In this book, Andrea Stone recovers critical, understudied writings from ear...

Illuminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violence Extravagant Camp takes as its point ...

Illuminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violence Extravagant Camp takes as its point ...

What queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapse What does it mean to be at the end of life, the end of a...

What queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapse What does it mean to be at the end of life, the end of a...

How beliefs about human and divine secrets informed medieval ideas about the mind and shaped the practices of literary interpretations What did it ...

Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Womens Novels examines a genre of ethnic American womens literature, which the author calls spiritual tr...

Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs takes readers on a journey through the lives and lega...

Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs takes readers on a journey through the lives and lega...

Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, writer James Baldwin and painter Beauford Delaney shared their private lives and shaped one anot...

Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, writer James Baldwin and painter Beauford Delaney shared their private lives and shaped one anot...

Iran in Finnegans Wake is a scholarly work that meticulously catalogs and analyzes the Iranian, Zoroastrian, and Persian vocabulary found in James ...

Zen, Meaning, and Craft in Jane Hirshfield's Poetry: Heartshoots is the first scholarly volume to be dedicated to the large body of work produced b...

A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal int...

Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960sIn Impermanent B...

Chaucers Ethical Philosophy argues that Chaucer's fictions engage with the most urgent questions of modern political and moral philosophy. Close an...