Literature: History & Criticism

This groundbreaking study offers an innovative critical analysis of poetry as a resource for reflective practice in the context of continuing profe...

In Der Nister's Soviet Years, author Mikhail Krutikov focuses on the second half of the dramatic writing career of Soviet Yiddish writer Der Nister...

An unflinching look at the intimate, dwindling natural world and our desire for human connection. Noah Davis’s The Last Beast We Revel In coalesce...

Islam and Papal Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe traces the influential history of another book: Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Contra lege...

This book is the first full-length critical study to explore the rapidly growing cadre of amateur-authored, independently-published, and niche-mark...

‘When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?’ - Judith Butler, Excitable SpeechExcitable Speech is widely hailed...

Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building focuses on the processes of Puerto Rican national identity formation as seen through the historical d...

Child Activist Literature at the Turn of the 2020s: From Kids You Read About to Kids You Read looks at how today’s child activists are not just fol...

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics presents the first comprehensive, state of the art overview of the multiple ways in which ‘polit...

In this study, Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple polit...

A debut poetry collection drawing on horror-movie tropes to examine the body—both its traumas and its possibilities.Scream / Queen, CD Eskilson’s d...

Addressing Jean Rhys’s composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textu...

What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England’s greatest former churches and shrines, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds? The ...

This book provides an in-depth exploration of South Asian readaptations of race in vernacular languages. The focus is on a diverse set of printed t...

In the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical the...

Originally published in 1981, this second edition built on the success of the first which had established itself as a standard introduction to the ...

Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker's book shows how the prominent ...

This book is a collection of the Paget Toynbee's lectures, given by internationally renowned scholars such as Zygmunt Baranski, John Barnes, and Jo...

King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in...

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas De Quincey (1...

The postwar US political imagination coalesced around a quintessential midcentury American trope: happiness. In Incremental Realism, Mary Esteve of...

T. S. Eliot once stated that the supreme poet "in writing himself, writes his time". In saying that, he honoured Dante and Shakespeare, but this pi...