Literature: History & Criticism

A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other F...

This readable, affordable, and faith-friendly introduction to the Bible aids students as they engage in their first informed reading of the biblica...

Outline important events in writer''s life.The chronology also serves as a diary as what Dickens was doing month by month, week by week.Books, maga...

Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy subjects' is the first study of Cameron's allegorical photographs and the first to examine the intellectual connect...

Yanagita Kunio (18751962) was a public intellectual who played a pivotal role in shaping modern Japans cultural identity. A self-taught folk schola...

Mirror of Dew introduces one of Iran's outstanding female poets, whose work has not previously been available in English. Zhle Q'em-Maqmi (1883-194...

Under Jini Kim Watsons scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environme...

At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the G...

Jane Austen is renowned for the economy of her art: for the close focus of her romantic plots and the precision of her writing style. Exploring tha...

A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode ri...

Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace He writes about things so clearly they come to feel l...

Revisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan womens auto/biography in the last four decades, particularly its c...

Aldus Manutius (c. 14511515) was the most important and innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. His Aldine Press was responsible for mor...

A shift of global proportions occurred in May 1808. Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain and deposed the Spanish king. Overnight, the Hispanic world wa...

Hugo Award winning writer James Gunn (1923-) has been called the last Golden Age author of science fiction. In a career spanning almost 70 years, h...

In volume 1 of Trafika Europe, Andrew Singer gathers choice offerings from the first year of the quarterly journal of the same name. These fourteen...

John Ruskin (18191900), one of the leading literary, aesthetic and intellectual figures of the middle and late Victorian period, and a significant ...

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide-a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basi...

Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2013, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most int...

This is an original reading of Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of Western philosophical traditions and counter-traditions. The book portrays Bakhtin...

This is an original reading of Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of Western philosophical traditions and counter-traditions. The book portrays Bakhtin...

Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many surprising ways...

The timely collection of essays is thematically unified around the subject of corporeality. Its theoretical underpinnings emerge out of feminist...

Presents a critical analysis and reflection on fifty heroes, heroines and villains of English and American literature, folklore, history, film and ...

The author of more than 50 books - 125 million copies in print - Clive Cussler is the current grandmaster of adventure literature. Dirk Pitt, the s...

The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name.In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate G...

This work studies the ways vampiric narratives explore the eco-friendly credentials of the undead. Many of these texts and films show the vampir...

Volume 2 of 2. Coleridge's nephew, son-in-law, and first editor, Henry Nelson Coleridge, began at the end of 1822 a record of Coleridge's remarks a...

Hardcore bibliography meets Antiques Roadshow in an illustrated exploration of the role that cheap reprints played in Jane Austen's literary celebr...

John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half h...

How the Civil War endures in American life through literature and culture.Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award's Montaigne MedalThe American Civil Wa...

Intervenesin contemporary debates about the relationship between literature and field recordingA field recording is any audio recording made outsid...