This book examines how Chinese women are represented in Chinese Australian writing at the intersection between China, the Chinese diaspora, and Australia. It analyses how concepts of femininity and feminism are embodied by Chinese women and how thei...More info...
Volume I of Charlotte Lennoxs The Female Quixote introduces Arabella, a heroine whose imagination is shaped by French romances. A witty and perceptive classic, the novel explores the power of reading, the nature of desire, and the constraints placed...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199237555)
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other, with a new intellectual context for interpreting the work, demonstrating its intricate intersections with the political...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198920649)
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other, with a new intellectual context for interpreting the work, demonstrating its intricate intersections with the political...More info...
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) makes its own distinctive contribution to the editorial tradition. It presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other. However, unlike previous scholarly edition...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646292)
How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne. Through a rich and attentive reading of Montaignes Essays, Benmakhlouf reminds us why the sixteenth-century author remains rele...More info...
How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne. Through a rich and attentive reading of Montaignes Essays, Benmakhlouf reminds us why the sixteenth-century author rem...More info...
Getting Real About College Compositiontranslates critical scholarly perspectives on writing into a usable and provocative classroom curriculum. What is writing, really? How does writing reflect reality? And create new realities? ...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781049801094)
“Were I the Author of This Tale” foregrounds Tolstoy’s lifelong habit of intervening in the work of others. Tolstoy’s work as an editor, commentator, anthologizer, re-writer, and especially translator began in...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487560805)
Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period? This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691277820)
How a once-forgotten Dutch painter inspired generations of artists, writers, and filmmakersJohannes Vermeer (1632–1675) is one of the most beloved painters in the world. But when an enterprising French journalist and art critic set...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503643543)
For many, Mary Wollstonecraft functions as Western feminisms indisputable origin point and anchor. Once scorned as scandalous, later rehabilitated by the Victorians as a figure of hardworking traditional femininity, Wollstonecraft is today incorpor...More info...
For many, Mary Wollstonecraft functions as Western feminisms indisputable origin point and anchor. Once scorned as scandalous, later rehabilitated by the Victorians as a figure of hardworking traditional femininity, Wollstonecraft is today incorp...More info...
Series: Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300186277)
This volume of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization covers the religious, political, economic, and geographic transformations of Jewish life through the early Middle Ages Volume 3 of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civiliza...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198228)
This collection explores the genesis of John Polidoris foundational novella The Vampyre (1819). It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy from the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, thro...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198198)
This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. -- ....More info...
Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198211)
Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while offering a queer way to read for their existences when less legible. This book offers a way to read old material with new eyes and a...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198204)
The first ever critical edition of Thomas Heywoods 1626 play, Dick of Devonshire, presented for the first time with an anthology of its source material. -- ....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198266)
This book shows that the poems of Geoffrey Hill (19322016) are characteristically end-directed, tending constantly towards prosodic and thematic consummations. It offers a new thematic reading of Hills entire body of work and touches on questions o...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198181)
This collection investigates the methodological problem of how to see, or read, art that references literature through a series of object-focused chapters on post-1960 artworks. Variously eccentric, playful, reverential and procedural, the diverse r...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198235)
A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford which was accidentally omitted from the 1652 edition of his works and so has not received much attention. A full introduction explores what made the play interesting...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198259)
This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures of control and to revise misogynistic medical and popular sentimental models that blamed inherent female weakness and the aberrant fem...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487570811)
Digital Combat reconsiders the cultural canon of Eastern European film through the lens of Russias ongoing war against Ukraine, exploring how filmmakers respond to violence, displacement, and the politics of memory in both traditional cinema and new...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199799)
A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England. -- ....More info...
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199805)
This study explores how writers reconciled provocative biblical stories with late-medieval culture. Highlighting the many variations and points of conflict across renditions of the same story, the book unfolds a creative theological discourse throug...More info...
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781807070403)
This volume looks at how Leif Eirikssons visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks wh...More info...
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781807070007)
This collection gathers leading international scholars in the humanities, who offer cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The range of methodological approaches exemplifies significant trends in...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198280)
This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production from literature and cinema to comics, hip hop, and cartography. It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigen...More info...
This interdisciplinary volume explores how graphic narratives engage with urgent global issuesranging from identity, trauma, and health to racial injustice, reproductive rights, disability, and ecological awareness. Featuring contributions from the...More info...
Series: Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300186277)
This volume of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization covers the religious, political, economic, and geographic transformations of Jewish life through the early Middle Ages Volume 3 of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civiliza...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487560805)
Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period? This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history...More info...
In the spring of 1689, Basho set off from Tokyo on a now-famous pilgrimage: this epic walk, spanning about 1500 miles, took him to the deep north of Honshu, and then back along the island’s western coast and finally down to Lake Biwa. Along his route...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691277820)
How a once-forgotten Dutch painter inspired generations of artists, writers, and filmmakersJohannes Vermeer (1632–1675) is one of the most beloved painters in the world. But when an enterprising French journalist and art critic set...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503643543)
For many, Mary Wollstonecraft functions as Western feminisms indisputable origin point and anchor. Once scorned as scandalous, later rehabilitated by the Victorians as a figure of hardworking traditional femininity, Wollstonecraft is today incorpor...More info...
Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, Ana María Mutis, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Ilka Kressner, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Josué Chavajay Quincaín, Giovanna Montenegro, Katja Cecchetti-Higgins, Alejandra Olarte...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813954523)
Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology Ecologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevaili...More info...
In this book, the author explores the different aspects of the lives of the men and women of the desert. The harmattan is a literary expression of the life of the Nomads and Tuaregs. In this book, the author explores the different...More info...
Becoming GeorgeBecoming George A long–overdue reappraisal of a groundbreaking nineteenth–century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms of her age....More info...
For many, Mary Wollstonecraft functions as Western feminisms indisputable origin point and anchor. Once scorned as scandalous, later rehabilitated by the Victorians as a figure of hardworking traditional femininity, Wollstonecraft is today incorp...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781049801094)
“Were I the Author of This Tale” foregrounds Tolstoy’s lifelong habit of intervening in the work of others. Tolstoy’s work as an editor, commentator, anthologizer, re-writer, and especially translator began in...More info...
This collection brings together three interrelated volumes by Michael Fried, one of the most influential and distinguished scholars currently at work in the humanities...More info...
Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, Ana María Mutis, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Ilka Kressner, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Josué Chavajay Quincaín, Giovanna Montenegro, Katja Cecchetti-Higgins, Alejandra Olarte...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813954516)
Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology Ecologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevaili...More info...
After exploring the arts and spoken word worlds of her native Chicago and the US East Coast, award-winning journalist, poet, and dreamer Clara Rose Thornton visited Germany for what was supposed to be three idyllic months of writing and rest. What fo...More info...
The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of Americas greatest 20th-century writers.You dont write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of...More info...
Volume I of Charlotte Lennoxs The Female Quixote introduces Arabella, a heroine whose imagination is shaped by French romances. A witty and perceptive classic, the novel explores the power of reading, the nature of desire, and the constraints placed...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199237555)
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other, with a new intellectual context for interpreting the work, demonstrating its intricate intersections with the political...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198920649)
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other, with a new intellectual context for interpreting the work, demonstrating its intricate intersections with the political...More info...
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) makes its own distinctive contribution to the editorial tradition. It presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other. However, unlike previous scholarly edition...More info...
Award-winning poet Enid Shomers new and selected poems explore the many facets of womanhood, from youthful desire to lifes later stages. In Riptide, Shomers poems, written over the last forty years, illuminate the nature of being-wheth...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646292)
How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne. Through a rich and attentive reading of Montaignes Essays, Benmakhlouf reminds us why the sixteenth-century author remains rele...More info...
How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne. Through a rich and attentive reading of Montaignes Essays, Benmakhlouf reminds us why the sixteenth-century author rem...More info...
Getting Real About College Compositiontranslates critical scholarly perspectives on writing into a usable and provocative classroom curriculum. What is writing, really? How does writing reflect reality? And create new realities? ...More info...
