Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated living authors. Her work, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Literatu......more

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This book explores three monstrous figures prominent in contemporary popular culture--zombies, vampires, and witches--fr......more

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Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to......more

Modernism and Religion argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth cent......more

Ann Quin’s innovative, versatile oeuvre made a vital contribution to 1960s and ’70s British experimental writing. While ......more

Romantic love was born alongside the novel, and books have been shaping how we experience and think about our most intim......more

Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, this guide identifies both the essen......more

What can feminist literature actually do? How can it affect the world? Does it have the power to change the oppressive s......more

When critics of poet Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry, dismiss her work as......more

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What queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapse What does it mean to be at th......more

What queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapse What does it mean to be at th......more

Illuminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violence Extravaga......more

American author Willa Cather was born and spent her first nine years in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Here, as an o......more

What are the sources--and the effects--of the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? What happens to that pow......more

Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western builds on the Locus Award finalist Weird Westerns: Race, G......more

Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western builds on the Locus Award finalist Weird Westerns: Race, G......more

Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century considers the value ......more

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

The significant archive of writing that came out of the women’s liberation movement in the United States, from 1965 to 1......more

The significant archive of writing that came out of the women’s liberation movement in the United States, from 1965 to 1......more

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

Land ownership--and engagement with land more generally--constituted a crucial dimension of female independence in eight......more

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A novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transformative potential The relationship of James B......more

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Mari Sandoz’s The Battle of the Little Bighorn encouraged a change in how Americans viewed this infamous fight. By the m......more

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Katherine Mansfield’s complicated relationship with London began in 1903, when her parents sent her and her two older si......more

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

A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros....more

A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros....more

In the 19th and early 20thcenturies, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change in attitudes t......more

Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a love letter and thank you note to Joan Didion. In The White Album, Joan Didion famous......more

Winner of the Matei Calinescu Prize In Unfinished Spirit, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein brings to light the extraordinary archi......more

An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of......more

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

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The study of the full career of an award-winning writer who evolved from traditional to radical Among the most celebrate......more

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

This book aims to study the representation of motherhood in self-life writing by English-speaking authors. It highlights......more

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

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

One afternoon in fall 2015 Cristina Devereaux Ramírez’s mother called and, with a tone of urgency in her voice, asked he......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

Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely fourth-wave feminist reading of crime fiction in the......more

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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times, The Week, Vulture, Elle, and The Millions A piercing blend ......more

New York Times Bestseller From Roxane Gay comes this collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism fro......more

New York Times Bestseller From Roxane Gay comes this collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism fro......more

Reading Modernism’s Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller examines the scene of reading in modernis......more

The mid-twentieth-century woman was stereotypically seen as a housewife and mother, who shopped. But whether as purchase......more

Hilda Doolittle operates primarily as a mythopoetic writer, rewriting the eternal dramas of myth into self- knowledge. S......more

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From the brilliantly funny (and rightfully furious) creator of the viral Men Write Women Twitter account Let’s face it, ......more

This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revi......more

A brave heroine whose quest involves living her true gender. A genderqueer knight who battles the transphobic court to s......more

Edición en tapa dura del ensayo que se ha convertido en un icono de la literatura modernista y del feminismo, con una nu......more

A devout Catholic, a visionary--and some say prophetic--writer, Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) has gained a growing prese......more

Contributions by Anita DeRouen, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, W. Ralph Eubanks, Sarah Ford, Bernard Joy, John ......more

Contributions by Anita DeRouen, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, W. Ralph Eubanks, Sarah Ford, Bernard Joy, John ......more

Disruptive Women of Literature: Rooting for the Antiheroine critically examines the representation of the literary antih......more

Popular culture encompasses and draws on a rich history of works by musicians, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and p......more

Strategies for teaching a classic abolitionist text One of the most commonly taught slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs’s I......more

Strategies for teaching a classic abolitionist text One of the most commonly taught slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs’s I......more