Nicholas Coles & Paul Lauter 
History of American Working-Class Literature [PDF ebook] 

Interpreting human stories, whether those told by individuals, groups, organizations, nations, or even civilizations, opens a wide scope of research options for understanding how people construct, sh …

First published in 2012. Michel Foucault was a different kind of intellectual from his predecessors, one whose work articulated a new relation both to the institutions in which he worked and to a wid …

This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with st …

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading …

Kashmiri Life Narratives takes as its central focus writings — memoirs, non-fictional and fictional Bildungsromane — published circa 2008 by Kashmiris/Indians living in the Valley of Kashmir, India …

Nicky Hallett has uncovered a major new source of material by and about English nuns living in exile in the Low Countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This volume presents the wom …

As long as there have been fans, there has been fan fiction. There seems to be a fundamental human need to tell additional stories about the characters after the book, series, play or movie is over. …

A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of …

Symbols and tropes of liquidity have long been connected to notions of the feminine and, therefore, with orthodox constructions of femininity and womanhood. Underpinning these ideas is the vital impo …

This is Volume IV of Postcolonialism part of a series of critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. This edition includes Part nine and includes works on internal colonialism and subaltern s …