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Literature, history and criticism

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The Tempest

William Shakespeare

1778 ★ 3.9

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley

1831 ★ 4.0

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

1818 ★ 3.9

Creaturely and other essays

Devin Johnston

2009

Cultural locations of disability

Sharon L. Snyder

2006

Critical encounters in high school English

Deborah Appleman

2000

The literary theory toolkit

Herman Rapaport

2011

Culture and imperialism

E. Said, Edward W. Said

1993

A History of Gay Literature

Gregory Woods

1998

Written World

Martin Puchner

2017

Patronage and Humanist Literature in the Age of the Jagiellons

Jacqueline Glomski

2007

Literature and legal problem solving

Paul J. Heald

1998

The nature of Roman comedy

George Eckel Duckworth

1952

The triple thinkers

Edmund Wilson

1948

The Great Ideas

Mortimer J. Adler

1992

Literary theory

Johannes Willem Bertens

2014

Validity in interpretation

E. D. Hirsch

1973

Why read the classics?

Italo Calvino

1999

Key concepts in literary theory

Ruth Robbins, Julian Wolfreys, Kenneth Womack

2001

Vortex/T

Charles D. Minahen

1992

Theory of the avant-garde

Peter Bürger

1984

Good Girl Messages

Deborah O'Keefe

2000

The Norton anthology of theory and criticism

Vincent B. Leitch

2010

Past and present

Thomas Carlyle

1843

Literature--Eighth Edition

Emily Brontë, Margaret Atwood, Charles Dickens et al.

2002

The barbarism of Berlin

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Sebastiao Jeovani

1914

Literary theory

Michael Ryan, Julie Rivkin

2017

Postmodern theory

Steven Best

1991

The Penguin Essays of George Orwell

George Orwell

1994

Literature against philosophy, Plato to Derrida

Mark Edmundson

1995