John Moran Gonzalez & Laura Lomas 
Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature [EPUB ebook] 

Deanna Fernie analyzes the significance of sculpture in Hawthorne”s fiction through the recurring motif of the fragment in its double guise as ruin and project. Her book casts new light on Hawthorne …

The religious, historical and rhetorical significance of the Confessions written by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, can hardly be overstated: the book is one of the unifying texts of Western Christia …

‘Stendhal”s most independent heroines are usually disliked or marginalized by critics. However, when gender-neutral criteria are applied, Mina de Vanghel, Vanina Vanini, Mathilde de La Mole, and Lam …

Inventing the Popular: Working-Class Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century France explores texts written, published and disseminated by a politically and socially active group of working-class …

Exploring critical legal issues and cases of the period-from Oscar Wilde”s prosecution for gross indecency to legal bans on such publications as D.H. Lawrence”s Lady Chatterley”s Lover, Radclyffe …

The Dictionary of Oriental Literatures fills a long-felt gap in Western literature by presenting a concise summary, in three volumes and about 2000 articles, of practically all the literatures of Asi …

Crime and the Nation explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when these two enterprises went hand in hand. The 1780s and ”90s witnessed …

This book actively engages with current discussion of narratology, and unnatural narrative theory in particular. Unsatisfied with the hegemony of European and Anglo-American narrative theory, it call …

From William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg to Miguel Algarín and Wanda Coleman, this groundbreaking book explores the ways in which contemporary poets have engaged with America”s changing urban …

Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism develops the theoretical perspective of environmental posthumanism through analyses of acclaimed science fiction nove …