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A bold and provocative analysis of Jane Austen as an early gender abolitionist Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differ......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

Nigerian Authors and the Me-Generation: New Shades of Black explores African literary issues and focuses on Nigerian gen......more

The book in your hands is a subtle attempt to research a piece of the vast lands of aesthetics, philosophy, art and lite......more

Joseph, Judah, and Plot is an exploration of narrative continuity in Genesis 37-50. It offers a new and literary reading......more

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Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent liter......more

This book examines the complexities of women’s lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America ......more

Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equality’s supposed......more

The Women’s War - Roza’s Story A gripping thriller about history’s first and only all-female force Having witnessed her ......more

Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, "romance" often involv......more

A study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature The prostitute, the protester, the murder vic......more

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

George Eliot and Her Women explores George Eliot’s engagement with gender, her representation of female characters, and ......more

A study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature The prostitute, the protester, the murder vic......more

Exposes a stylistic tradition of flamboyantly failed passing in queer literature and film This book posits formal experi......more

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

This book tells the story of decadent poet Gabriele D’Annunzio’s occupation of Fiume in 1919-1920. It provides the most ......more

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

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

Freeman is best known today for her short regionalist fiction. Recently, Freeman studies have taken new turns including ......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

Drawing on autobiographical and postcolonial theories, Hiyem Cheurfa examines twenty-first-century Arab women’s life wri......more

First published in 1988, The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir concentrates specifically on the novels of the famous 20th Cen......more

First published in 1968, Jane Austen’s Emma is a critical study of Miss Austen’s last completed novel. While often pausi......more

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

This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist ......more

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Arabic-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change in attitude......more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of NPR’s "Books We Love" in 2024 An incisive collection about motherhood and creative life through the lens of mothe......more

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

Informed by fourth-wave feminism, Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely reading of crime f......more

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

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

"Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction offers new and insightful readings of African American women’s writings in the ......more

"Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction offers new and insightful readings of African American women’s writings in the ......more

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

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

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

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

Medieval women were active in many performative activities, including plays and ceremonies performed in nunneries. This ......more

In Zynara: Kampf für Freiheit, entdecken Sie die faszinierende Reise von Xael Var, einem mutigen Aktivisten auf einem Pl......more

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

A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros. Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954), autho......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

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

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910-1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. H......more

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910-1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. H......more

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

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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