English Literature

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a...

A leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and e...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second h...

What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was...

In contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedal’s work stands out as uniquely personal; it can be difficult to separate the fiction from Espedal’s ...

A few years after the deadly 2011 terror attack in Norway’s Utøya Island, Otto and Sofie are attempting to put the pieces of their life back togeth...

Now in paperback, the epic tale of a violinist who must navigate the fractious world of early twentieth-century Germany. “Ruven Preuk stands apart...

In the hands of such writers as Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, David Shields, Zadie Smith and many others, the essay has re-emerged as a powerful...

Language Unlimited explores the many mysteries about our capacity for language and reveals the source of its endless creativity. All humans, but n...

Placing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language variation and change through a ...

Sets out in a new and authoritative way the history of the essay; explains how the essay has come to mean what it does, surveys the widely various ...

The authors skillfully blend a thorough grasp of the first half century with sensitive use of psycho-biographical technique.

Introducing a refreshing young French voice to English readers, this slim novel is both a riveting love story and an examination of humanity’s assa...

Like Barbarians in India (H.B)

Poetically written and originally given as lectures, this is a moving essay collection from Durs Grünbein. In his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures he...

The myth of Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) focuses on his early years: how the great enfant terrible tore through the nineteenthcentury literary scene ...

The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature provides readers with a comprehensive reassessment of the value of Humanism in an intellectual l...

The ten stories in this collection cover different spaces and unravel many layers that Imayam so masterfully and effortlessly weaves into his narra...

This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max frisch was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel gantenbein, or a wilderness of mirrors....

In Sophia Naz's poems, one has the sense of being out in the open-of our beings fermenting as we read, of looking back from time to time, to check ...

A defence of the importance of poetry that studies one of the greatest poets of the English tradition: John Milton. The Literary Agenda is a serie...

“Of course I had to end up here.” over ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-bargeman who used to be skipper of his own boat, walks the muddy fields of t...

Klaus Merz is one of the most prominent, prolific, and versatile Swiss writers working today. Celebrated as a master of concise, condensed sentence...

A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou.

Although Salim Barakat is one of the most renowned and respected contemporary writers in Arabic letters, he remains virtually unknown in the Englis...

A novel about disability, family secrets, and Norway’s eugenic past. The White Bathing Hut is a genetic detective story. The narrator uses a whee...

Reinhard Jirgl’s strikingly individual novel The Fire Above, the Mountain Below demonstrates that he is not only unorthodox in his approach to lang...

Research Companion to Language and Country Branding brings together entirely new interdisciplinary research conducted by scholars working on variou...

Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted wor...

“In 1968-69 I wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all sides,” wrote Helene Cixous, esteemed French femi...

This anthology of contemporary Palestinian plays, created during or after the second intifada (2000–2005), directly emerges from the physical and p...

‘I had but that one arrow,’ says chotti Munda, the hero of this epic tale. A ‘magic’ arrow that stood for the pride, the wisdom, the culture, of th...

There are many ways to travel between India and the UK in general and Calcutta and Norwich in particular. You could take a plane and then the bus o...

Quiet Flows The River Jhelum

The Awasthis of Aamnagri (P.B)

Elegy for the East: A Story of Blood and Broken Dreams (F.B)

A Plate of White Marble (F.B)

An actor of traditional Hindu dramas meets an adolescent girl who turns out to be his half-sister. A man returns to Goa from Mozambique to father a...

“Baudelaire is indeed the greatest Exemplar in modern poetry in any language,” said T. S. Eliot. We experience Baudelaire in myriad ways through hi...

In Bab al-saha, a quarter of Nablus, Palestine, sits a house of ill repute. In it lives nuzha, a young woman ostracized from and shamed by her comm...

The book presents unique flowering of Urdu ghazal as a by-product of India's composite culture that evolved from intermixing of Indian and alien va...

Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully readin...