Collection: Literary Criticism
Go beyond the story with our Literary Criticism collection your guide to understanding, analysing and appreciating literature on a deeper level.
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Queer Print Cultures
Javier Samper Vendrell, Vance Byrd
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Inhabitants of the Deep
Jonathan Howard
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Peter Sloane
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Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England
Neil Rhodes
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In Collaboration with British Literary Biography
Jane McVeigh
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The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994
Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
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How to Think Like a Poet
Dai George
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The Burial and Other Short Prose, 1963-1994
Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
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Poeticality
Jeffrey Sacks
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Writing for Young People
Elen Caldecott
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Genre, Race, and the Production of Subjectivity in German Romanticism
Stephanie Galasso
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The Future of Travel
Daniel Maurer
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Making American Artists
Anna O. Marley
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Richard III (No Fear Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare, SparkNotes
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The Gifts of Reading
Robert Macfarlane
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Politics and the English Language
George Orwell
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Dràma na Gàidhlig: Ceud Bliadhna air an Àrd-ùrlar
Michelle Macleod
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An Atlas of Tolkien
David Day
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Rhetorical Renaissance
Kathy Eden
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Migration and Identity in Nordic Literature
Martin Humpál
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James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Elaine Petrie
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We, the Heartbroken
Gargi Bhattacharyya
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Toni Morrison
Lawrie Balfour
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Searching for Juliet
Sophie Duncan
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Bandits in Print
Scott W. Gregory
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I Am Not Okay With This (Netflix Series Tie-In Edition)
Charles Forsman
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Desegregating Comics
Qiana Whitted
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Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages
Vicki Kay Price
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Rulin waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China
Shang Wei
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The Italian
Ann Radcliffe
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A Sicilian Romance
Ann Radcliffe
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In Praise of Good Bookstores
Jeff Deutsch
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Feeling Backward
Heather Love
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Rainbow in the Cloud
Maya Angelou
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The Tale of Cupid and Psyche
Apuleius
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Collected Stories
Dylan Thomas
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Letters from Tove
Tove Jansson
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Samuel Beckett
David Cameron
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A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
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Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview
Octavia E Butler
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Yer Ower Voices!
Mike Jenkins
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The Myth of the Birth of the Hero
Otto Rank
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Cathleen Ni Houlihan
W B Yeats, William Butler Yeats
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Antifa Splatterpunk
Raglin, Eric
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Don't Panic
Caleb Nichols
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Literary Criticism
These insightful texts unpack the themes, techniques, and cultural impact behind the books we love, from ancient epics to contemporary fiction.
Explore essays, academic studies, and accessible guides on everything from postcolonial theory and feminism to narratology and genre analysis.
Whether you're a student, a scholar, or just a curious reader, you’ll find resources that sharpen your literary lens.
Ideal for book clubs, university courses, or solo deep-dives, our literary criticism books help you read between the lines.