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A Guest Among Stars

A Guest Among Stars collects recent essays by one of the most respected poet-critics of our time. Mark Ford discusses poets and their wor...

Volume 3 of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz - Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales: The Maiden's Quest

The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz Volume 3 turns to the Maiden's Quest within fairytales.

Detective Fiction on the Case of Community - The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern

It examines one of modernity's most trenchant problems.The project rests on the argument that detective fiction emerges specifically from...

Reading Poetry - A Complete Coursebook

Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 ...

The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews...

Postmodernism, Twenty-First Century Culture, and American Fiction - Establishing the Continuum

This book interrogates the discontinuous ripples of postmodernism within post-Cold War American literature and culture. The persistence o...

The Thinking Heart

A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occu...

Never by Itself Alone - Queer Poetry, Queer Communities in Boston and the Bay Area, 1944--Present

Through its comprehensive history of post-war queer writing in Boston and San Francisco from the 1940s through the 21st century, Never By...

The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie

Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious auth...

Batgirl and Beyond - The Dynamic History of the Heroines of Gotham City

For over sixty years, the women who took on the mantle of Batgirl have served as inspirational superheroes for legions of underrepresente...

Orchid Muse - A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers

Orchids, the epitome of floral beauty, have long inspired poetry, adventure, art and scientific discovery. In Orchid Muse, historian and ...

Hanshan: Cold Mountain Poems

Long ranking among the most inspiring works of world literature, the poems of Hanshan (whose name means Cold Mountain), were written at l...

The Odyssey

Living with Our Dead - On Loss and Consolation

A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER A timely, powerful reflection on our relationship to death and an invitation to accept loss and vulnera...

The Worlds of George RR Martin

This is an in-depth bringing together of the enormous range of inspirations behind Martin's work - from historical borrowings as wide-ran...

The Worlds of Dune - The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert

The Worlds of Dune presents a deep dive into the many different strands of inspiration that Frank Herbert wove into Dune and its sequels ...

Prose and Poetry Through Time - Hebrew Verb Form Semantics in Zechariah

This book makes a convincing argument that the verbal system of Biblical Hebrew is basically the same in prose and poetry. In addition, i...

Aristotle on Accidental Causation

This major new study of Aristotle's natural philosophy connects it to modern theories of causation and provides fresh interpretations of ...

Black Speculative Feminisms - Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women's Fiction

Charts the moments in Black women's science fiction and fantasy where characters harness, or fail to harness, the power of memory, transf...

The Fairy Tellers - A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales

Fairy-Tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us something about how Western civilisation was f...

The Midcentury Minor Novel - American Fiction, 1945-1965

[headline]Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to ...

Callimachus: Select Longer Fragments

This edition of Callimachus' select larger fragments and epigrams offers an indispensable guide for properly appreciating his poetic art....

Fanfiction as Queer Healing - Femslash Authorship and the Swan Queen Ship

Exploring the phenomenon of Femslash fanfiction (fan narratives that bring together heterosexual female characters from mainstream media ...

The Trojan Horse and Other Stories - Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human

What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answ...

Faulkner's People - A Complete Guide and Index to the Characters in the Fiction of William Faulkner

Faulkner's People is an essential reference for the student and general reader of Faulkner who seeks guidance in identifying and interrel...

Powers of Horror - An Essay on Abjection

Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the na...

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction - The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature's strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill Hou...

The Kannada Mahabharata

The Kannada Mahabharata, known as Kum¿ravy¿sa Bh¿rata, is an innovative fifteenth-century retelling of the famous Mahabharata story cente...

The Color of Smoke

Sweeping us into the world of the roma as fascism gathers force and the Holocaust looms on the horizon, The Color of Smoke is a thoroughl...

The Color of Smoke

Sweeping us into the world of the roma as fascism gathers force and the Holocaust looms on the horizon, The Color of Smoke is a thoroughl...

Searching for Feminist Superheroes - Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics

How superhero narratives in the margins of the mainstream tell innovative, feminist stories.

Passing

The powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today, with an introduction by ...

On Edge - Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett

Reframes postwar American literary fiction through the work of Leigh Brackett, Shirley Jackson, and Patricia Highsmith, arguing that reco...

East Side Voices - Essays celebrating East and Southeast Asian identity in Britain

A first-of-its-kind essay anthology that showcases the brightest East and Southeast Asian voices in Britain today, on a broad range of su...

The Haunted Wood - A History of Childhood Reading

A panoramic and poignant history of children¿s literature

Ideas in Literature III.: Dimensions

Gothic - An Illustrated History

A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and film.

Dante's Divine Comedy - A Biography

Life / Afterlife - Revolution and Reflection in the Ancient Greek Underworld from Homer to Lucian

Life / Afterlife traces the development, evolution, and uses of underworld scenes in ancient Greek literature and society. Underworld sce...

The Lost Spells

Beautiful books make unforgettable gifts. This pocket-sized treasure is the perfect present for fans of nature, language and rich artwork...

The Swedish Art of Ageing Well - Life wisdom from someone who will (probably) die before you

This is a guide to a life well-lived. It is about the wonder of the everyday and the lessons that age brings. Wear stripes. Eat chocolate...

The River of Goodness

"The River of Goodness is a lyrical, global exploration of the ways we can create a more just and sustainable world for all, from the aut...

Archy and Mehitabel

archy and mehitabel is a collection of humorous verses by Don Marquis, originally published from 1916 onwards in Marquis's newspaper colu...

Cahier

A collection of poetic stream-of-consciousness prose meditations by Friederike Mayröcker. Friederike Mayröcker has no time. Not for summa...

Never on Time, Always in Time - Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium

Explores how writers summon queer bodily experiences by way of the senses, opening new perspectives onto queer history, futurity, and rel...

The Double Life of Books - Making and Re-Making the Reader

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic and the autobiogr...

The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk

Difficult Ornaments - Florida and the Poets

This book draws on the works and lives of six poets, illustrating how the state of Florida inspired twentieth-century poets to new subjec...

Anne of Green Gables

Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to create the most beautiful classics. Using a perfect mix of tradition and the very...

Imaginative Possibilities - Conversations with Twenty-First-Century Latinx Writers

A new addition to the Latinx and Latin American Profiles series published by the University of Pittsburgh Press

Essays and Interviews on Contemporary American Poets, Poetry, and Pedagogy - A Thirty-Year Creative Reading Workshop

Merging autobiography and literary criticism, Daniel Morris illustrates in sixteen essays how he learned to attend to avant-garde contemp...

The Tories: A Tragedy

The brilliant mind behind the Secret Tory presents 14 years of Tory rule - as told by William Shakespeare

The Roman de la Rose in Its Philosophical Context - Art, Nature, and Ethics

Examines the complex thirteenth-century poem Roman de la rose in the light of the philosophical ideas of its time and shows the range and...

Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion - Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen

[headline]The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day Harryette Mullen is...

The Making of the Scottish Dream Vision

This book covers dreams and visions in prose, poetry, Scots, Latin, and English, plus works that do not explicitly contain dreams or visi...

Writers Who Changed History

This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas. Writer...

Edith Wharton - A Study of Her Fiction

Blake Nevius's close analysis and appraisal of Edith Wharton's novels and stories reveals the modernity of her fiction and shows why she ...

Ezra Jack Keats at Play in the World of Children's Books

Rotten London, Rotten Elsewhere - Letters To Power

A collection of letters written to people in positions of authority between 2008 and 2023.

Orwell on Truth

George Orwell (1903¿1950) is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. He is the author of the classic political sati...