Subject Guide: Literature

Examines the connections between American philosophy and often-neglected works of literature.

Critical thought about literary and philosophical studies of literature from an international team of eminent scholars.

Explores philosophical concepts in the literature of Dr. Seuss.

Investigates how Austen worked with, and played upon, the cracks and faultlines which time had uncovered in the ideals of polite conversation.

Charts the origins and consequences of the literature/philosophy dialogue and provides an overview of the field as well as discussing new developments in literary and philosophical scholarship.

Explores the ability of dense and formally interesting literature to respond to the complexities of modern life.

Considers crucial topics and controversies involving the field of Comparative Literature, including subjectivity, Bartolome de Las Casas, and globalization.

Explores the study of literature and literary history in light of global changes, looking at what defines world literature in the 21st century.

Identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests ways of coming to terms with this issue via a renewed engagement with the literary dimension in the postcolonial text.

Delves deeply into children's responses to literature, and in particular, to works of fantasy.

Provides a comprehensive intellectual and literary history of the major American, British, and Continental novels of Realism and Naturalism from 1850 to 1950.

Examines that fundamental of human philosophy - the relationship between human beings and time.

Argue for literature as a universal human endeavor rather than one defined and limited by national boundaries.

Discusses the art of the novel.

Offers a new theory of what we mean by literature.

Gets to the heart of why literature matters to us and sheds new light on the nature and interpretation of literary works.

Meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of literature in the digital age.

Addresses the ways literature and theory have engaged with literary criticism, philosophy, and history and related concerns.

Defends a rich conception of the space of literature that retains its links to issues of self-formation and metaphysics and does not let that space collapse into just another reflection of social space.

Examines literature in its connection to virtue and moral excellence.

Addresses these intriguing questions as What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression?

Offers a defense of the value of literature and suggests ways in which the problematic relationship between personal and academic reading may be overcome.

Explores Shakespeare's understanding and use of the metaphor body politic in a range of plays.

Presents an original and lucid account of the relationship between philosophy and the novel.

Places philosophical aesthetics at the heart of thinking about literature, taking concrete examples from the traditional and contemporary literary arts and uses them to introduce all the central philosophical issues in literature.

Offers a defense of literary humanism.

Explores the cultural bearings of literary modernism across multiple fields, geographies, symbolic forms, and media.