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

This handsome gift edition presents Virginia Woolf’s classic work, A Room of One’s Own, featuring a luxurious gold embos......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

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

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

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

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In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining......more

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"Often examined separately, play and hauntings in fact act together to frame postcolonial issues. Sushmita Chatterjee sh......more

Often examined separately, play and hauntings in fact act together to frame postcolonial issues. Sushmita Chatterjee sho......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

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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

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

One woman’s mostly unpublished, rich heritage of West Texas border folklore and literary history...more

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

New scholarship on Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party and Other Stories together with creative work inspired by Mans......more

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

Angelo Ellerbee, the multimedia marketing maverick whose career has helped launch, lay the groundwork for, and legitimiz......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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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times, The Week, Vulture, Elle, and The Millions A piercing blend ......more

TENTH ANNIVERSARY LIMITED COLLECTOR’S EDITION Roxane Gay’s New York Times bestselling debut collection of essays spannin......more

Now available in hardcover for the first time, Roxane Gay’s New York Times bestselling debut collection of essays spanni......more

First published in 1959, Virginia Woolf’s London takes the reader on a tour of London with Mrs. Woolf....more

*Noble Deeds of the World’s Heroines* celebrates the courage, bravery, and achievements of inspirational women throughou......more

Sense & Sensibility (Pocket Classic) Sense & Sensibility is a timeless masterpiece by Jane Austen that explores love, fa......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

A multi-disciplinary review of the study of gender and politics through a communication lens. The book shows how gender ......more

The essays gathered here reflect changes in German literary studies over more than half a century of political and cultu......more

This book critically examines the literary antiheroine in contemporary Gothic and crime-thriller novels. Gardner explore......more

This collection of essays connects Lion Feuchtwanger’s work to the gendered experience of exile during the period of Nat......more

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From the brilliantly funny (and rightfully furious) creator of the viral Men Write Women Twitter account, A Tale of Two ......more

The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swell......more

"A Room of One’s Own is an essay written by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1929 and is based on two lectures given ......more

In an innovative approach to the world-famous novelist Margaret Atwood and her oeuvre, this book traces the development ......more

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

"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Addresses race, gend......more

In 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were "key to their generation......more

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The first detailed account of Austen’s characters’ reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characte......more

In The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded......more

A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 - One of BookPage’s Best Biographies of 2024 - One of Literary Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfic......more

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

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Virginia Woolf and Capitalism explores Woolf’s engagement with and critiques of capitalism throughout her life, arguing ......more

The first half of the twentieth century was a period of accelerated resource extraction, industrial intensification and ......more

The renaissance of Virginia Woolf reflects a reassessment not only of Woolf as a writer but also of our social and polit......more

The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature connects Tolkien......more

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

A fresh historical perspective on the transformative relationship between sexuality and the arts around 1968 In the late......more

A ground breaking new book that considers all Siddal poems with reference to female and primarily male counterparts, add......more

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

This study aims to uncover the traces of the Sweeney legend (Buile Suibhne) in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish......more

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

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This book comprises a series of essays across a range of topics in honour of Eamon Maher, founding president of the Asso......more

This volume chronicles the history of feminist theater, from the early 1700s to contemporary productions such as The Hei......more

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

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