Category - Literary Criticism

As the eighteenth century is entirely bereft of narratives written by African women, one might assume that these women had little to no impact on B...

The first full-length study of Selvon that covers all aspects of his fictional world - poems, radio dramas, short fiction, and novels. It shows t...

Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination rewrites the history of the Panama Canal, assessing for the fir...

Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and B...

While globalization is often credited with the eradication of 'traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the ...

Shakespeare called Othello "an extravagant and wheeling stranger/Of here and every where." In this exciting anthology, Caryl Phillips has collecte...

Love, and the different manifestations of it, is a common theme in literature around the world. In Cosmopolitan Love, Sijia Yao examines the writin...

Australian, Steve Byrne, is twenty-three years old and his adult life is just getting underway. He has recently married, he has one child and a sec...

This book is the first study of the formation of the idea of homosexuality in Ireland into the twentieth century and centers on an account of Wilde...

Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they t...

“A Passage to India is one of the greatest modern novels about empire. Paul Armstrong’s thoughtful and wide-ranging edition provides historical c...

Woolf's first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as "Mode...

First published in 1927, E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel" compiles a series of lectures given to Trinity College at the University of Cambrid...

A posthumous collection of twenty-five essays on the art of fiction and the art of biography. "These are aristocrats among essays...witty, beautifu...

Woolf's best-selling spoof biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett-Browning's lap dog, Flush, has until recently received relatively little serious...

E. M. Forster's guide sparkles with wit and insight for contemporary writers and readers. With lively language and excerpts from well-known classi...

“Illuminating and original combination of biographical, historical, literary, and critical sources for Mrs. Dalloway by the leading Woolf scholar...

Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Vi...