Literary essay

Toward a Literary Ecology: Places and Spaces in American Literature

by Karen E. Waldron & Rob Friedman

In this book, editors Karen E. Waldron and Robert Friedman have assembled a collection of essays that study the interconnections between literature and the environment to theorize literary ecology. The disciplinary...

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

by Salman Rushdie

In Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie presents ten years' worth of concentrated thought on topics from the most cherished literary traditions and authors of India, Europe, and America to the politics of oppression,...

Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne

by Daniel Derrin

Rhetoric and the Familiar examines the rhetorical practice of Francis Bacon and John Donne in both their writing and public speaking. It explores how their rhetorical planning negotiates the need both to use...

A Companion to the Neronian Age

by Emma Buckley & Martin Dinter

An authoritative overview and helpful resource for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature during the reign of Nero.

• The first book of its kind to treat this era, which has gained in popularity...

A Companion to Terence

by Antony Augoustakis & Ariana Traill

A comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars in the field that address, in a single volume, several key issues in interpreting Terence offering a detailed study of Terence’s plays and situating...

Joseph A. Schumpeter: His Life and Work

by Richard Swedberg

Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883-1950) is one of the most celebrated authors on the economics and sociology of the twentieth century. Richard Swedberg's new biography provides an engaging and vivid account of Schumpeter's...

Tolstoy's Art and Thought, 1847-1880

by Donna Tussing Orwin

"My aim is to present Tolstoy's work as he may have understood it himself," writes Donna Orwin. Reconstructing the intellectual and psychic struggles behind the masterpieces of his early and middle age, this...

Paperwork: Selected Prose

by David Citino

David J. Citino's Paperwork is a collection of previously published essays, pieces of memoir, and poetry set within the borders of Ohio. A native of Cleveland, Citino has lived in Ohio all his life. Although...

Modern German Literature

by Michael Minden

This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies.

Beginning with the emergence of German language literature...

Medieval English Drama

by Katie Normington

Medieval English Drama provides a fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. The book places particular emphasis on the importance of the performance contexts...

Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience

by Alexander Etkind

This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many...

Southern Frontier Humor: New Approaches

by Ed Piacentino

Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset of the new millennium precipitated an impressive rejuvenation...

Paris in American Literatures: On Distance as a Literary Resource

by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera & Vamsi K. Koneru

This collection brings together new perspectives on the novels, memoirs, poetry, and journalism concerning Paris written by Americans. By examining the implications of foreignness as a creative device, this...

Technology, Literature and Culture

by Alex Goody

Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and progress of technology....

Ira Aldridge: The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852

by Bernth Lindfors

"Ira Aldridge: The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852" deals in depth with the later experiences of one of the modern world's first black classical actors as he toured throughout the United Kingdom impressing audiences...

A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee

by Tim Mehigan

J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to have been...

Enlightened War: German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz

by Elisabeth Krimmer & Patricia Anne Simpson

Enlightened War' investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace,...

A Literary History of the Low Countries

by Theo Hermans

What was the written culture behind visual artists like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens? What made the historical novel in nineteenth-century Flanders so different from its counterpart in Holland? What was the...

Distant Reading

by Franco Moretti

The formation of an unorthodox literary critic

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficient?

In the ten essays collected in this...

Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century

by Declan Burke, Ruth Dudley Edwards & John Connolly

This book suggests crime fiction is now the most relevant and valid form of writing which can deal with modern Ireland in terms of the post-‘Troubles’ landscape and post-Celtic Tiger economic boom. The book...