Literature: History & Criticism

A pioneer in hard-boiled fiction, James Mallahan Cain achieved fame with his first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice. His Double Indemnity a...

Once a work is completed, when and how do writers and other artists embrace their next creative work? In this fascinating book, Monique LaRue gives...

A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaningacross genres, disciplines, methodologies, and timefrom foundational texts to the most rec...

War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as t...

The Man Booker International-winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania's most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Prize contender Is...

In literary investigation all evidence is textual, dependent on preservation in material copies. Copies, however, are vulnerable to inadvertent and...

Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the oriental and the ornamental, Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory ...

The Great War in Italy. Representation and Interpretation collects interdisciplinary papers from international scholars who investigate the represe...

An innovative author of verse romance, Chretien de Troyes wrote in northern France between 1170 and 1190. Credited with the first Arthurian roma...

The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by ...

This updated and expanded textbook inspires a greater appreciation for literature by studying important literary themes found in comics. By deco...

Finalist for the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de MontrealA writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Rage accumulates. From iconic feminist writer G...

Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto t...

During a remarkable lifetime, Andrew Sinclair has bridged the worlds of university and literature, art and cinema. A child of the Second World War,...

Despite their significance, the writings on Japanese music by Prussian medical scientist and physician Leopold Müller, published in Yokohama in a s...

This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of Jewish-American writers. Whether they reimagine their ancestors' shtetl life or...

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Lewis Carroll, was not only the author of the beloved Alice tales but an inveterate and talented creator of puzzles and g...

To say that graphic novels, comics, and other forms of sequential art have become a major part of popular culture and academia would be a vast u...

This book employs actor-network theory (ANT) to explore the making of the English translation of a work of Chinese canonical fiction, Journey to th...

Since the publication of Twilight in 2005, Stephenie Meyer's four-book saga about the tortured relationship between human heroine Bella Swan and...

An extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of home, through explorations literary and political, philosophical and deeply personal, by the acclaimed...

Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Co...

Richard Marsh was one of the most popular and prolific authors of the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods. His bestselling The Beetle: A Mystery (...

The injunction, Know thyself!, resounding down the centuries, has never lost its appeal and urgency. The self remains an abiding and universal conc...

The spectres of history haunt Irish fiction. In this compelling study, Matthew Schultz maps these rhetorical hauntings across a wide range of postc...

This is the first book-length study of the Scottish Legendary of the late fourteenth century. The only extant collection of saints' lives in the ve...

What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyri...

A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of p...

This is an edition of Christopher Marlowes play Dr Faustus as it was printed in its revised and augmented form in 1616. It follows the publication...

A History Today Best Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearVirgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome...

Drawn from International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013, Scorched Maps is a chapbook of poetry by Tomasz Rózycki presented in Polish, English, and...

Drawn from International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013, How Can I Call What Is Between Us a Past? is a chapbook of poetry by Adonis presented in ...