Library Guides/ English Language and Culture

New Ebooks on our Ebook Platforms

In this box, you will see several links to ebooks that enter our collection through our publisher package deals.
For individual purchases of print books and ebooks from other publishers, please see below.

Brill (Brill and partner presses)
All books in the subsection English & Anglophone in the field Literature and Cultural Studies published in 2023 and 2024.
Cambridge Core (Cambridge University Press and partner presses)
All books in the field of English Literature: General Interest published in the last 12 months. Please note that Cambridge offer more categories in the field of English Literature. Use the Browse Subjects menu item on the Cambridge Core website to navigate further.
De Gruyter (De Gruyter and partner presses)
All English-language books in the subject area of Literary Studies published in the last year.
Oxford University Press
All books in the field of Literature published in 2023 and 2024.
Taylor & Francis (T&F and partner presses)
All books in the field of Language & Literature published in the last 12 months.
Bloomsbury Collections
All books in the field of British and Irish Literature published in 2023 and 2024.

New Books (December 2024)

Breath, Eyes, Memory

Danticat, Edwidge. Breath, Eyes, Memory. New York, NY: Soho Press, 2015. Originally published in 1994.

Short Story Theory at a Crossroads

Lohafer, Susan, and Jo Ellyn Clarey, eds. Short Story Theory at a Crossroads. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

Villa des Roses

Elsschot, Willem. Villa Des Roses. Translated by Paul Vincent. London: Granta, 2003.

Dangerous Fictions

Gold, Lyta. Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality. New York: Soft Skull, 2024.

Modern Love

North, Beau. Modern Love. [USA]: Beau North, 2017.

J. R. R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics

Williams, Hamish. J. R. R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics. London: Bloomsbury, 2023.

When Stars Have Teeth

Trujillo, Dani. When Stars Have Teeth. [United States]: [Sin Verguenzas], 2024.

The Village by the Sea

Desai, Anita. The Village by the Sea. New York: New York Review Books, 1982.

The Scapegoat

Hughes-Hallett, Lucy. The Scapegoat: The Brilliant, Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham. New York, NY: Harper, 2024.

The Great Wave

Lavin, Mary. The Great Wave, and Other Stories. New York: Macmillan, 1961.

Stories Are Weapons

Newitz, Annalee. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2024.

Lizards Hold the Sun

Trujillo, Dani. Lizards Hold the Sun. [United States]: Sin Verguenzas, 2023.

At the End of the Century

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. At the End of the Century. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2017.

Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene

Adkins, Peter, ed. Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

The House in Clewe Street

Lavin, Mary. The House in Clewe Street. London: Faber, 2009. Originally published in 1945.

Futures of the Past

Roberts, Ivy, ed. Futures of the Past: An Anthology of Science Fiction Stories from the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, with Critical Essays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020.

New Books (November 2024)

S.

Abrams, J. J., and Doug Dorst. S. New York: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown, 2013.

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne

Stringer, Gary A., and Jeffrey Johnson, eds. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995-[2022]. Vols 3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5, and 7.2 recently added to our collection.

The Bee Sting

Murray, Paul. The Bee Sting. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2023.

Einstein's Wake

Whitworth, Michael H. Einstein’s Wake : Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

A Cultural History of Tragedy

Rebecca W. Bushnell, ed. A Cultural History of Tragedy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. All 6 vols available.

Chaucer: Here and Now

Turner, Marion, ed. Chaucer: Here and Now. Oxford: The Bodleian Library, 2023.

You've Been Summoned

Lamar, Lindsey. You’ve Been Summoned: An Interactive Mystery. ex42, 2024.

On Writing Well (ebook)

Zinsser, William. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. 30th Anniversary Edition. London: Harper Perennial, 2014.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison

Reames, Kelly Lynch, and Linda Wagner-Martin, eds. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Jazz

Morrison, Toni. Jazz: A Novel. New York: Vintage International, 1992.

Writing Human Rights

Parikh, Crystal. Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

The Odd Woman and the City

Gornick, Vivian. The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

The Friend

Nunez, Sigrid. The Friend. London: Virago, 2018.

The Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature

Kasa, Deni. The Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024.

The Occult Sylvia Plath

Gordon-Bramer, Julia. The Occult Sylvia Plath: The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet. New York: Inner Traditions International, 2024.

Nonfiction

Myerson, Julie. Nonfiction: A Novel. London: Corsair, 2023.

I Remember Nothing

Ephron, Nora. I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections. London: Black Swan, 2011.

Democratic Anarchy

Scully, Matthew. Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature. New York: Fordham University Press, 2024.

Beyond Interpretation

Burke, Daniel. Beyond Interpretation: Studies in the Modern Short Story. Troy, NY: Whitston, 1991.

Behold the Dreamers

Mbue, Imbolo. Behold the Dreamers: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2016.

Manifesto

Evaristo, Bernardine. Manifesto : On Never Giving Up. New York: Grove Press, 2021.

Re-Reading the Short Story

Hanson, Clare. Re-Reading the Short Story. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989.

A Year and a Day

Lopate, Phillip. A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays. New York: New York Review Books, 2023.

Tales from Bective Bridge

Lavin, Mary. Tales from Bective Bridge. London: Faber & Faber, 2012. Originally published in 1943.

The Sign of Jonah

Leeuwen, Boeli van. The Sign of Jonah. Translated by André Lefevere. Sag Harbor, NY: Permanent Press, 1995.

On a Woman’s Madness

Roemer, Astrid. On a Woman’s Madness. Translated by Lucy Scott. [London]: Tilted Axis Press, 2024.

The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective

Lodge, Sara. The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2024.

In the Middle of the Fields

Lavin, Mary. In the Middle of the Fields: And Other Stories. Stillorgan, County Dublin: New Island Books, 2016.

House Made of Dawn

Momaday, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn. 50th Anniversary Edition. London: HarperCollins, 2018.

The Case for Fanfiction

Barner, Ashley J. The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2017.

Bleak Liberalism

Anderson, Amanda. Bleak Liberalism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Beyond Sleep

Hermans, Willem Frederik. Beyond Sleep. La Vergne: Pushkin Press, 2020.

The Art of the Glimpse

Gleeson, Sinéad, ed. The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories. London: Head of Zeus, 2020.

Short Stories and Short Fictions, 1880-1980

Hanson, Clare. Short Stories and Short Fictions, 1880-1980. London: Macmillan, 1985.

Shakespeare's Tragic Art

Lewis, Rhodri. Shakespeare’s Tragic Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024.

Shadow Child

Thomése, P. F. Shadow Child. London: Bloomsbury, 2005.

Other Lives but Mine

Carrère, Emmanuel. Other Lives but Mine. Translated by Linda Coverdale. London: Vintage, 2019.

Mary O’Grady

Lavin, Mary. Mary O’Grady. [London]: Virago Press, 2004. Originally published in 1950,

Cheri

Beard, Jo Ann. Cheri. London: Serpent’s Tail, an imprint of Profile Books Ltd, 2021.

Nora Ephron

Dance, Liz. Nora Ephron : Everything Is Copy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015.

Singers behind Glass

Brockway, James, ed. Singers behind Glass: Eight Modern Dutch Poets. Lincoln: Jackson’s Arm, 1995.

An Island in Time

Mak, Geert. An Island in Time: The Biography of a Village. London: Vintage, 2010.

The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath

Plath, Sylvia. The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath. Edited by Peter K. Steinberg. London: Faber & Faber, 2024.

Spells

Shin, Sarah, and Rebecca Tamás, eds. Spells: 21st-Century Occult Poetry. [s.l.]: Ignota Books, 2018.

Elizabeth Macarthur’s Letters

Grenville, Kate, ed. Elizabeth Macarthur’s Letters. Melbourne, VIC: Text Publishing, 2022.

The Lyric Theory Reader

Jackson, Virginia, and Yopie Prins, eds. The Lyric Theory Reader: A Critical Anthology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Heart of Darkness

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism. Edited by Paul B. Armstrong. Fifth edition. Norton critical edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.

Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel

Jongh, Aimée de, and William Golding. Lord of the Flies : The Graphic Novel. London: Faber and Faber, 2024.

New Books (October 2024)

Time Shelter

Gospodinov, Georgi. Time Shelter. Translated by Angela Rodel. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022.

Rosewater

Thompson, Tade. Rosewater. London: Orbit, 2016.

Zone One

Whitehead, Colson. Zone One: A Novel. London: Vintage, 2011.

Dracula, Dracula’s Guest, and Other Stories

Stoker, Bram, and David Stuart Davies. Dracula ; Dracula’s Guest, and Other Stories. Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 2009.

The Word Is Murder

Horowitz, Anthony. The Word Is Murder. New York: Harper Perennial, 2018

S.

Abrams, J. J., and Doug Dorst. S. La Vergne: Canongate Books, 2013.

The Lieutenant

Grenville, Kate. The Lieutenant. La Vergne: Canongate Books, 2009.

Mid-Century Women's Writing

Dinsman, Melissa, Megan Faragher, and Ravenel Richardson, eds. Mid-Century Women’s Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private Divide. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024.

New Books (September 2024)

The Norton Anthology of English Literature (11th Edition)

Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Eleventh edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024.

The Calamity Form

Nersessian, Anahid. The Calamity Form : On Poetry and Social Life. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020.

C. S. Lewis

Evans, Robert C., ed. C. S. Lewis. Critical Insights. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2023.

Green Modernism

McCarthy, Jeffrey Mathes. Green Modernism: Nature and the English Novel, 1900 to 1930. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Keats's Odes

Nersessian, Anahid. Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Selected Poems 1

Atwood, Margaret. Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975. HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.

Medieval Drama (ebook)

Bevington, David. Medieval Drama. Cambridge, MA: Hackett, 2012.

At the Beach

Urbain, Jean-Didier. At the Beach. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

The Woman Novelist and Other Stories

Gardner, Diana. The Woman Novelist and Other Stories. London: Persephone Books, 2006.

Poetry As Spellcasting

Beyer, Tamiko, Destiny Hemphill, and Lisbeth White. Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2023.

Tell It to a Stranger

Berridge, Elizabeth. Tell It to a Stranger: Stories from the 1940s. London: Persephone Books, 2000. Originally published in 1947.

Yellowface

Kuang, R. F. Yellowface: A Novel. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2023.

Fabulosa

Rigby, Karen. Fabulosa. [United States]: Jackleg Press, 2024.

Every Good Deed and Other Stories

Whipple, Dorothy. Every Good Deed and Other Stories. London: Persephone Books, 2016.

New Books (July-August 2024)

Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory

Jones, Ann Rosalind, and Peter Stallybrass. Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

M. Butterfly

Hwang, David Henry. M. Butterfly. New York, NY: Plume Books, 2017.

Citizen

Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric. London: Penguin Books, 2014.

A Book of Monsters

Ashford, David. A Book of Monsters: Promethean Horror in Modern Literature and Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024.

D. H. Lawrence and Feminism (ebook)

Simpson, Hilary. D. H. Lawrence and Feminism. London: Routledge, 2024. Originally published in 1982.

Eco-Modernism

Diaper, Jeremy, ed. Eco-Modernism: Ecology, Environment, and Nature in Literary Modernism. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2022.

New Books (June 2024)

What I’d Rather Not Think About

Posthuma, Jente. What I’d Rather Not Think About. Translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey. Melbourne: Scribe, 2023.

Virginia Woolf: Night and Day

Viriginia Woolf: Night and Day. Edited by Michael H. Whitworth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

The Romance of Tristran by Beroul and Beroul II

The Romance of Tristran by Beroul and Beroul II. Translated by Barbara Nelson Sargent-Baur. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

McBride, James. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. New York: Riverhead Books, 2023.

Revolution in Poetic Language

Kristeva, Julia. Revolution in Poetic Language. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.

The Darcy Myth

Feder, Rachel. The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love. Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2023.

Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen

Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen. Edited by Jane Potter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Knife

Rushdie, Salman. Knife: Meditations after an Attempted Murder. London: Jonathan Cape, 2024.

The Art of the Short Story

Gioia, Dana, and R. S. Gwynn. The Art of the Short Story. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006.

Appropriate

Rekdal, Paisley. Appropriate: A Provocation. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2021.

New Books (May 2024)

Purple Passage

Hahn, Emily. Purple Passage: A Novel About a Lady Both Famous and Fantastic. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950.

The English Short Story, 1880-1945

Flora, Joseph M., ed. The English Short Story, 1880-1945: A Critical History. Boston, MA: Twayne, 1985.

The Years

Woolf, Virginia. The Years. Edited by Anna Snaith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The 40s

Finder, Henry, and Giles Harvey. The 40s : The Story of a Decade. New York: Random House, 2014.

The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism

Dow, William, Roberta S. Maguire, and Yoko Nakamura, eds. The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Disciplining Modernism

Caughie, Pamela L. Disciplining Modernism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Modernism and Its Environments

Rubenstein, Michael, and Justin Neuman. Modernism and Its Environments. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

New Books (April 2024)

Virginia Woolf: Orlando

Virginia Woolf: Orlando: A Biography. Edited by Suzanne Raitt and Ian Blyth. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf

Susan Dick, ed. The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf. Second edition. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.

Uncle Vanya (DVD)

McPherson, Conor, Ian Rickson, and Ross MacGibbon. Uncle Vanya. Sonia Friedman Production ; Dazzler Media, 2021.

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway. Edited by Anne E. Fernald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Light from Uncommon Stars

Aoki, Ryka. Light from Uncommon Stars. New York: Tor, 2021.

Notes from the Field

Smith, Anna Deavere. Notes from the Field. New York: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House, 2019.

Prophet Song

Lynch, Paul. Prophet Song. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023.

British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women's Literature

Mullholland, Terri. British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women’s Literature: Alternative Domestic Spaces. London: Routledge, 2017.

Wifedom

Funder, Anna. Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life. London: Penguin Books, 2024.

Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room

Virginia Woolf: Jacob’s Room. Edited by Stuart Nelson Clarke and David Bradshaw. The Cambridge edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

New Books (March 2024)

Nzingha

McKissack, Pat. Nzingha, Warrior Queen of Matamba. New York, New York: Scholastic, 2000.

Skin Shows

Halberstam, Jack. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Unquiet Spirits

Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith, eds. Unquiet Spirits Essays by Asian Women in Horror. Nashville, TN: Black Spot Books Non-Fiction, 2023.

The Hanging on Union Square

Tsiang, H. T. The Hanging on Union Square: An American Epic. Edited by Floyd Cheung. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2019.

The Fraud

Smith, Zadie. The Fraud. London: Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023.

A Stranger with a Bag

Warner, Sylvia Townsend. A Stranger with a Bag: And Other Stories. London: Faber And Faber, 2011.

The Norton Chaucer

David Lawton, Jennifer Arch, and Kathryn L. Lynch, eds. The Norton Chaucer. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy

Outhwaite, Patrick. Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy : England and Central Europe, 1350-1434. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2024.

Oliver Twist

Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Edited by Kathleen Tillotson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Big Fiction

Sinykin, Dan. Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.

Virginia Woolf : Writing the World

Pamela L. Caughie and Diana L. Swanson, eds. Virginia Woolf: Writing the World: Selected from the Twenty-Fourth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2015.