JSTOR offers more than 6,000 Open Access ebooks from 75+ publishers at no cost to libraries or users. Here is a selection of titles relevant to the key thematic topics in the Lives of Literature collection.
Medieval Authors & Texts
Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde
Winthrop Wetherbee, Cornell University Press
Petrarch and Boccaccio: The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World
Edited by Igor Candido, De Gruyter
Piety in Pieces: How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts
Kathryn M. Rudy, Open Book Publishers
Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy: Volume 1
Edited by George Corbett and Heather Webb, Open Book Publishers
Modernist Authors
Enthusiast!: Essays on Modern American Literature
David Herd, Manchester University Press
Proust and America: The Influence of American Art, Culture, and Literature on A la recherché du temps perdu
Michael Murphy, Liverpool University Press
The Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas
Vera M. Kutzinski, Cornell University Press
Yeats’s Legacies : Yeats Annual No. 21
Edited by Warwick Gould, Open Book Publishers
Victorian, Edwardian & Gothic Authors
Changing the Victorian Subject
Edited by Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Seys, and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, University of Adelaide Press
Charles Dickens and the Image of Women
David Holbrook, NYU Press
Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age
Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett, University of Michigan Press
Transformation of Rage: Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot’s Fiction
Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone, NYU Press
Literary Theorists
Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay
Patrick Brantlinger, Cornell University Press
The Institution of Criticism
Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Cornell University Press
Roland Barthes at the Collège de France
Lucy O’Meara, Liverpool University Press
The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject
Carolyn J. Dean, Cornell University Press