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W. B. Yeats was not only a poet but also a cultural revolutionary. A restless collaborator, he fostered countless artist......more

First published in 1901 and this English translation in 1970, Footprints in the Snow is one of the most popular novels i......more

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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. The book explores the intersectio......more

Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing worl......more

Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing worl......more

Representations of language learning and literacy, also known as "literacy narratives", are a staple of literature. They......more

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Global Trespassers is the first c......more

Translation as Home is a collection of autobiographical essays by Ilan Stavans that eloquently and unequivocally make th......more

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Fyodor Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment o......more

Adoption Memoirs tells inside stories of adoption that popular media miss. Marianne Novy shows how adoption memoirs and ......more

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In The Evolution of Gerald Durrell: A Naturalist’s Critical Biography, Mary Sanders Pollock revisits the life and work o......more

With seemingly obsessive regularity, American authors, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, evoke the sermon ......more

This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wall......more

The first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmun......more

The conventional lineage of World Literature starts with Goethe and moves through Marx, Said, Moretti, and Damrosch, amo......more

The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are......more

"Applies recent theories of media ecology to British and American literature from the late 19th century to the contempor......more

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Based upon the testimony of Thomas Carlyle, most biographers acknowledge that Wordsworth witnessed the beheading of the ......more

This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to re......more

Exploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France’s most famous novelist and observer In Balzac’s vast H......more

Henry James’ Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction offers a multifaceted approach to Henry James’ idea and practice of travel ......more

Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty provides the first full account of the poetics of the former US Poet Laurea......more

Courteous Exchanges explores the significant overlap between Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Shakespeare’s plays, sho......more

Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester’s poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biograph......more

Dante beyond influence is the first study to conceptualise and historicise the hermeneutic turn in Dante reception histo......more

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A reexamination of 1970s France as a decade of intellectual, cultural, and political consequence, both then and now Numb......more

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This wide-ranging transnational collection theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically and cre......more

Building on the growing field of Afropean Studies, this interdisciplinary and intermedial collection of essays proposes ......more

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This book explores the significant textual relationship between Mary and Percy Shelley and the early works of the Brontë......more

Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War examines the entanglement of Shakespea......more

This book is a rip-roaring manifesto that re-claims ways to think about and do ’leadership’. Colliding mobilities, neuro......more

The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most expansive collection of critical essays on Emerson to date, a sur......more

This book looks at Dalits in the city and examines the nature of Dalit aspirations as well as the making of an urban sen......more

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the final volume of ......more

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By historicizing and contextualizing them through readings of carefully selected literary texts, literary studies can co......more

Experimental translation has been surging in popularity recently--with avant-garde translation at the combative forefron......more

The book consists of two volumes that examine deployments of mixed emotion in the literary and pictorial arts of early m......more

This book studies sugarcane monoculture, the dominant form of cultivation in the colonial Caribbean, in the later 1600s ......more

This book engages legal and literary texts in order to examine acquaintance crimes, such as rape, sexual harassment, sta......more

Offering comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to Natalia Ginzburg, this volume situates Ginzburg’s works within ......more

Anxieties about the fate of reading in the digital age reveal how deeply our views of the moral and intellectual benefit......more

A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period. The reign of Qu......more

This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings ......more

A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violen......more

Transplant practices are discussed in the medical realm, in fictional texts and in popular advertisement. Yet how do the......more

This book offers a new critique of selfhood in Romantic literature. In the past, Romanticism has been seen as an individ......more

​William Gibson’s Neuromancer: A Critical Companion presents Gibson’s rise as an influential figure within and beyond th......more

The Equality of Flesh traces a new genealogy of equality before its formalization under liberalism. While modern ideas o......more

Identifying an important subgenre of horror literature, this book argues that Catholic horror fiction works distinctivel......more

From Tragedy to Apocalypse in American Literature: Reading to Make Sense of Our Endings argues that imaginative literatu......more

Arabic Literature and Social Media sheds light on the impact of social media on contemporary Arabic literature in terms ......more

The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld presents, for the first time, all the known surviving works of this major E......more

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London identifies the eighteenth-century comedic stage as a key site of feminist c......more

Conversations with Dostoevsky presents a series of fictional conversations taking place between November 2018 and Spring......more

National Review’s Literary Network traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for Will......more

This book examines how nineteenth-century Bengal witnessed women writers like Krishnabhabini Devi, Prasanyamoyee Devi, S......more

b’It was raining as it only rains in Normandy, as though great gouts of water were being sprayed by some angry, giant ha......more

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London identifies the eighteenth-century comedic stage as a key site of feminist c......more

Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries--a period of vast economic change--recognized that the gl......more

One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth’s 1997 American Pastoral uses the fictional hamlet ......more

One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth’s 1997 American Pastoral uses the fictional hamlet ......more

Using comparative analyses of source and target texts, Leone Anderson examines Jorge Luis Borges’s residual presence in ......more