University Press Audiobooks

The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience.

The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history...

Among the dramatists who wrote for the professional playhouses of early modern London was a small group of writers who were neither members of the commercial theater industry...

The mother-daughter partnership that produced the Little House books has fascinated scholars and readers alike.

Contemporary Dickens is a collection of essays that presents some of the most intriguing work being undertaken in Dickens studies today.

A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts.

Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain's reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame.

The debate over the US's fading hegemony has raged and sputtered for 50 years, glutting the market with prophecies about American decline.

In this fascinating study, Anthony J. Lewis argues that it is the hero himself, rejecting a woman he apprehends as a threat, who is love's own worst enemy.

Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett.