Literary Studies: from c 1900

The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timel...

Home in British Working-Class Fiction offers a fresh take on British working-class writing that turns away from a masculinist, work-based understan...

Beginning with the premise that the biopic is a form of adaptation and an example of intermediality, this collection examines the multiplicity of '...

Alienation and Theatricality: Diderot After Brecht

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers Doris Les...

Alicia Giménez Bartletts popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy I...

In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a si...

Exploring how Margaret Atwoods fiction reimagines the figure of the detective and the nature of crime, Jackie Shead shows how the author radically ...

While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels, stories, and m...

Bringing together an international group of scholars, this collection offers a fresh assessment of Kazuo Ishiguros evolving significance as a conte...

The first full-length account of D.H. Lawrences rich engagement with a country he found both fascinating and frustrating, D.H. Lawrences Australia ...

Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how trave...

This book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beech...

In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished no...

This title was first published in 2001: This book examines the liberal-communitarian debate from a new perspective. Communitarians argue that liber...

This title was first published in 1999: Examines the range of detective literature produced between 1901 and 1915 in Britain, during the reign of E...

First published in 1998, this volume explores how the genre of school stories had become firmly established by the turn of the twentieth century, h...

This title was first published in 2001: Against Autonomy reassesses Jean-Francois Lyotard's contribution to philosophy and theory, and explores how...

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) was a pioneering female journalist, experimental novelist, playwright, and poet whose influence on literary modernism was ...

Home in British Working-Class Fiction offers a fresh take on British working-class writing that turns away from a masculinist, work-based understan...

This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the Emergency as an event tha...

This book is the first collection on the British author Rose Macaulay (1881-1958). The essays establish connections in her work between modernism a...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

First published in 1999, this volume aims to develop the field of theatre studies by promoting the study of performative elements and thus fosterin...