Literary Studies and Criticism

Recent movers and shakers in literary studies and literary criticism.

Updated May 1, 2025
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Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism
Randall Fuller
Ebook
Shakespeare's tragic art
Lewis, Rhodri
Ebook
A new account of Shakespearean tragedy as a response to life in an uncertain world In Shakespeare's Tragic Art, Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote it--of what drew him toward tragic drama, what makes his tragedies...
The Island : War and Belonging in Auden’s England
Jenkins, Nicholas
Ebook
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England. ...
How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children's Classic
Paper Book
Poor Things : How Those with Money Depict Those Without It
Davis, Lennard J.
Ebook
For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, or James Agee. This has resulted in overwhelming depictions of poor people as living abject, violent lives in filthy and degrading...
Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959
Bowers, John M.
Ebook
Digital Victorians : from nineteenth-century media to digital humanities
Fyfe, Paul
Ebook
Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, the nineteenth century confronted the consequences of its media shifts in ways that still define...
Literary critique, modernism and the transformation of theory
Mitrano, G. F.
Ebook
Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory demonstrates the non-linear temporalities and trajectories through which theory operates. Italian Theory acts as the fulcrum of a more inclusive and less combative notion of critique. This 'living thought' cuts...
Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age
Hammond
Ebook
Literature has experienced two great medium shifts, each with profound implications for its forms, genres, and cultures: that from orality to writing, and that from writing to printing. Today we are experiencing a third shift, from printed to digital forms. As with the previous shifts, this...
New Sincerity : American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age
Kelly, Adam
Ebook
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Enuma Elish : The Babylonian Epic of Creation
Haubold, Johannes
Ebook
Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder : The Evolution of Modern Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse
Larsen, Mads.
Ebook
Increasing levels of singledom, dating dysfunction, and sexual inactivity contribute to plummeting fertility rates. This book investigates the perhaps most foundational factor behind this uncoupling: our present era's ideology of love. Throughout human history, communities have shared fictional...

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