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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Letters To Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
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A People’s Literature in Palestine/Israel
Hana Morgenstern
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Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel
Hoda Elsadda
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Henry Miller and How He Got That Way
Katy Masuga
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Shakespeare, the Sea and the Stage
Peter Womack
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Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry
Jenna Clake
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Don Paterson
Natalie Pollard
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Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence
John Peters
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British Modernism and Chinoiserie
Anne Witchard
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The Birth of the Financial Thriller
Mikkel Krause Frantzen
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One Aladdin Two Lamps
Jeanette Winterson, Jeanette Winterson
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Alexandrian Sphinx
Peter Jeffreys, Gregory Jusdanis
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Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man – Letters, 1968–1983
Jacques Derrida
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A History of the Novel in Britain
Philip Hensher
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The Wisdom of the Odyssey
Phil Cousineau
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Dancing at the Edge of the World
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Land of Sweet Forever
Harper Lee
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The Edinburgh Companion to the Spanish Civil War and Visual Culture
Eugenia Afinoguénova
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The Edinburgh Companion to James Joyce and the Arts
Keith Williams
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The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Literature and Periodical Culture
Elke D'hoker
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The Land of Mist and Other Spiritualist Writings
Christine Ferguson
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Narrative of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Volume I
John Gibson Lockhart
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Narrative of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Volume II
John Gibson Lockhart
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The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson
Rhona Brown
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Intermedial Authorship
Kathrin Yacavone
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Women, Texts and Tombs after the Reformation
Eva Lauenstein-Dean
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Short Stories I
R. L. Stevenson
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Origins and Foundations in the Modernist Age
Stephen Kern
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The Lives, Writings and Legacies of Phillis Wheatley Peters
Barbara McCaskill
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Poets, the Press and the South African War
Elizabeth Rawlinson-Mills
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Cora Kaplan – Double Crossings
Cora Kaplan
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The Making of the Arabic Book, Volume 2
Mathew Barber, Lorenz Nigst, Aslisho Qurboniev, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Peter Verkinderen
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The Author in Victorian Literary Culture
Andrea Selleri
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The Politics of Sympathy and the Reading Experience
Stephen Edwards
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Black Lives in Scotland
Jeanette R. Davidson
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Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare’s Britain
Bill Angus
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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.