Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens o......more

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This book links the stories, lived and fictional, of Catherine Dickens, Marie Corelli, and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain to de......more

This book is a comprehensive account and a compelling new approach to the impact of German influences on Kate Chopin’s f......more

Acknowledging the growing cultural popularity of science fiction, this book explores gender through cohesiveness and spo......more

The volume explores the intimate connection between poetry and politics in Modernity and, in particular, in Modern Italy......more

On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural a......more

On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural a......more

This book attempts to identify the subversive writing techniques adopted by the black female authors to empower their bl......more

QSpirit Top 24 LGBTQ Christian Books of 2024 A novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transfo......more

QSpirit Top 24 LGBTQ Christian Books of 2024 A novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transfo......more

This book explores the politics of the right to write in Gertrude Stein’s practice and its reception. It examines how co......more

The 1820s has commonly been overlooked in literary and cultural studies, seen as a barren interregnum between the achiev......more

Recognised now as one of the most important voices to emerge from Scotland’s literary ’Renaissance’ in the 1930s, the fu......more

As a novelist, feminist, socialist, activist, travel-writer, and diarist, Naomi Mitchison is one of Scotland’s most impo......more

Motherhood is a recurrent theme in Virginia Woolf’s writing yet Woolf scholarship has often overlooked this dynamic subj......more

Introduced in 1964, Cicely Saunders’ term ’total pain’ has come to epitomise the holistic ethos of hospice and palliativ......more

In his 1908 cultural and historical study of homosexuality titled The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Prob......more

A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present ......more

Barbara Bray (1924-2010) was an English woman of letters who translated some hundred novels, plays, and essays from Fren......more

Finalist, 2025 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies Winner, 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title During the interw......more

A book-length selection from Kevin Killian’s legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon......more

This book is a collection of maxims and aphorisms that constitute a series of philosophical reflections on a variety of ......more

This book aims to illuminate the life and work of four German-speaking writers exiled in Britain after 1933. Gerda Mayer......more

Queer futures begin with the body. In Never on Time, Always in Time, Kate McCullough explores how writers summon queer b......more

Women and madness in the early Romantic novel returns madness to a central role in feminist literary criticism through a......more

This book examines the cultural work and meaning-making of Louisa May Alcott’s representations of health and illness. It......more

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean t......more

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean t......more

This volume explores the impact of violence and resistance on Irish society, and their representations in fiction. Its f......more

The volume examines the various expressions of violence, its impact, forms of resistance and its representation in Irish......more

This book presents the untold stories of the forgotten literary mothers and sisters of pre-modern Italian literature, an......more

The South is often perceived as a haunted place in its region’s literature, one that is strange, deviant, or "queer." Th......more

The South is often perceived as a haunted place in its region’s literature, one that is strange, deviant, or "queer." Th......more

Winner, 2025 College Language Association Book Award From 1987, when Rita Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, to 202......more

How do Black women writing speculative fiction explore the use of memory as a potential strategy for liberation? In Blac......more

"A celebrated scholar of Flannery O’Connor reflects upon the ongoing significance of her literature and legacy for the C......more

Bronze Medal Winner for the 2025 Will Rogers Medallion Mari Sandoz’s The Battle of the Little Bighorn encouraged a chang......more

What in terms of Alice Munro’s creative artistry and creative power allowed her to become the first and only short story......more

This book explores the intricate interplay between physical spaces and psychological landscapes in the works of Irish-Am......more

A sweeping tale of love, danger, and destiny set against the fires of revolution. Cornwall, 18th century. Amid a coastli......more

This book offers readers an annotated collection of the short prose fictions that were published by Peter Motteux in The......more

In this book, I will chronicle the rapid rise of the singer Ana Castela, the greatest phenomenon in Brazilian music, adm......more

An expansive, illuminating, and "welcome addition to understand" (Shelf Awareness) the legendary writer Dorothy Parker, ......more

A USA Today Bestseller "This absorbing biography, written with both affection and admiration, shows Babb as one of the m......more

This book reassesses the precariousness of Jean Rhys as a distinct positionality eliciting an isolated voice which insis......more

This book interrogates the significance of the revival and reformulation of the romance genre in the postmillennial peri......more

In nineteenth-century Britain, the word queer was associated not only with same-sex desire but also with irregular forms......more

In today’s cultural and political climate of relative LGBTQ+ inclusion, Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of th......more

Honorable Mention in the ACIS Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature, 2024 An Open Access edition of this book is a......more

Vital Issues presents an annotated scholarly edition of the weekly columns Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the most prominent ......more

Vital Issues presents an annotated scholarly edition of the weekly columns Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the most prominent ......more

The study focuses on spatio-temporal relations and their dependence on literary genres in Paul Auster’s fiction. The aut......more

This new study of Marie Louise de la Ramée (1839-1908), who wrote under the pseudonym Ouida, considers the best-selling ......more

The Lottery is a dark feminist dystopian tale that unapologetically explores the intersection of politics and reproducti......more

Narratives in Modern Arabic Literature explores the impact of place, gender, and Ṣūfī motifs on contemporary Arabic lite......more

This book provides an analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their contributions......more

A prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theological resources for trans lifeworlds. In this striking contri......more

Jane Austen wrote for a Regency-period audience and could never have predicted the lasting success of her original works......more

In Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June......more

In Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June......more

Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals renders a vivid portrait of the intergenerational and intersectional dialogue betw......more

One woman’s mostly unpublished, rich heritage of West Texas border folklore and literary history...more

What do women want to read? Jean Donneau de Visé, the founder and editor in chief of Le Mercure Galant, one of France’s ......more

This book questions Italian "white innocence" and examines the specificity of Italian racial discourse through the analy......more

Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory demonstrates the non-linear temporalities and trajectories......more

Proposes a queer way to be in the world and with others Invoking queer aesthetics, ethics, and politics, Bottoms Up expl......more

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Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile explores the multiple aspects of exile, displacement, mobility, and......more

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