This original exploration of Arab autobiographical discourse investigates various modes of cultural identity that have e......more

Zaynab Fawwaz (c.1860-1914) was as a forceful voice in support of women’s rights to education and work choices in coloni......more

This book examines the phenomenon of the post-civil war Anglophone Lebanese fictional narrative. The texts chosen for st......more

Wen-Chin Ouyang explores the development of the Arabic novel, especially the ways in it engages with aesthetics, ethics ......more

The Arabic novel has taken shape in the intercultural networks of exchange between East and West, past and present. Wen-......more

Gender studies in Arabic literature has become equated with women’s writing, leaving aside the possibility of a radical ......more

Prior to the 1960s the study of Arabic literature, both classical and modern, had barely been emancipated from the acade......more

This imaginative and accessible study of the lyrical, humorous, social and educational aspects of classical Persian poet......more

This exploration of the work of Iraqi novelists begins with the early pioneering works and then moves towards an outline......more

This book revisits a rich but overlooked field of Nepali literature and culture. Compared to the extensive research avai......more

Elvira Hernández (1951-) is one of the most interesting and innovative Latin American poets writing today. This critical......more

Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics sheds new light on how we see repetition today by pro......more

If misogyny is a systemic problem, then in order to understand its influence on canonical works like Shakespeare’s, thos......more

This volume posits that clothing in the early modern period was conceived of as the prime interface between the human bo......more

Born in Silesia, raised in the Frankfurt area and educated in Berlin, Werner Sollors has spent most of his career at Har......more

This book is a timely intervention in the history of museums in Britain. BP’s ongoing sponsorship of the British Museum,......more

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

For many decades Peter Brooks’s critical writing has been a force of illumination and inspiration for readers of many ki......more

Perhaps the best-known among modernist-era magazines, the British socialist weekly The New Age (edited by A. R. Orage fr......more

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Explore the seductive allure and cultural evolution of vampires in mythology, literature, and media. Our enduring love o......more

This volume presents the work of a group of international academics on the topic of reproduction and motherhood in conte......more

Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptations From the Middle Ages to the present, legends of ......more

The controversial and compelling figure of the New Woman in late Victorian fiction has garnered extensive scholarly atte......more

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This book explores the eighteenth-century concept of "mentorship" in literary works, founded on voluntary, reciprocal en......more

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Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy’s final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy New Pe......more

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction’s power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises, ......more

Myung-Wha Kim is an acclaimed playwright, critic, and director. In this book, the first English language play collection......more

What does it feel like to experience the sacred today? Examining in detail many of this century’s most significant write......more

An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a un......more

Roman political leaders used distance from Rome as a key political tool to assert pre-eminence. Through the case studies......more

This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences, int......more

With the arrival of Puritan settlers in New England in the middle decades of the 17th-century, accounts of sickness, col......more

Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his o......more

Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Jennifer Ega......more

Exploring 18th-century medicine’s construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as "hermaphrodites", this......more

Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies, th......more

Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender ......more

This book considers the apparent invisibility of lesbianism throughout the literary and cinematic history of the Hispani......more

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Postcolonial Tragedy in Ireland: ......more

As this lively new study effectively demonstrates, dictionaries serve as far more than just simple reference tools-they ......more

Acclaimed author and translator Sophus Helle considers an ancient creation story with themes of humanity, class warfare,......more

Agon: Poetry’s Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality narrates the battle for truth-telling authority between poetr......more

Scholarly writings in translation have contributed enormously to intellectual life throughout the world but there has be......more

Scholarly writings in translation have contributed enormously to intellectual life throughout the world but there has be......more

Acclaimed author and translator Sophus Helle considers an ancient creation story with themes of humanity, class warfare,......more

Beunans Meriasek is one of only two surviving medieval saints’ plays in the British Isles, making it of central importan......more

Taking an innovative approach to the study of religious literature and literary modernity, this book examines an overloo......more

Classical Indian poetics prized the skillful use of alaṅkāras, or "ornaments"--literary figures of speech. Across more t......more

Explores George Orwell’s political evolution and enduring vision, showing how his reflections on war, ideology, and just......more

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure of Tops......more

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure of Tops......more

Mark Twain’s final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literat......more

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James Wright (1927-80) was considered one of the major poets of his era, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, even though......more

Traces earlier revolutions in the history of reading to orient our shift to the digital age Considered one of the greate......more

Exploring how Reinaldo Arenas reimagined literary classics as queer, subversive parodies that undermine oppressive power......more

This book examines the importance of Classics and classical reception in the poetry, novels, translations, essays, and l......more

The Translation Studies Reader provides the definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in tran......more

The Translation Studies Reader provides the definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in tran......more

People have always travelled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors st......more

The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and......more

The Epic of Florida brings to light a neglected tradition of colonial poetry from the sixteenth century. Written in resp......more

This edited volume proposes a new perspective on how children’s literature interacts with politics: its chapters focus n......more

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James’s late works through the lens of minimalism. Henry James’s last com......more

Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory offers a detailed exploration of the debates, theories, texts, and t......more

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James’s late works through the lens of minimalism. Henry James’s last com......more

This new theory of reader response describes "perverse attachment," or the powerful desire to intervene in a story, even......more

This book offers a groundbreaking literary-ethical examination of cloning narratives in science fiction, positioning its......more