Literary Studies: from c 1900

Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity aims to explain and to interrogate the disciplinary history according to which litera...

At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with ...

At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with ...

Exploring the influence of Shakespeare on drama in Ireland, the author examines works by two representative playwrights: Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) a...

The first book-length study to explore the links between Christianity and modern Japanese literature, this book analyses the process of conversion ...

How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history o...

From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval an...

This book focuses on avant-garde literature and art in Europe and America during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It examines five movem...

The twentieth century was a period of rapid change for religion. Secularisation resulted in a dramatic fall in church attendance in the West, and t...

This monograph identifies the key preoccupations of forty-five primary texts by Jewish women published between 1945 and 2007. These texts have the ...

Looking closely at both case histories of shell shock and Modernist novels by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, Wyatt Bonikowski s...

This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches to the use and study of literary archives. Interrogating literary and archival...

This is a critical study of the construction of gendered spaces through feminine labor and capital in Puerto Rican literature and film (1950-2010)....

Has Chilean author Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) written the final word on Latin America's insufferable modernity? This investigation asserts that Bol...

Zola, The Body Modern: Pressures and Prospects of Representation

Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays dealing with culture in Britain c.1895-1914. B...

Drawing on feminist psychoanalysis and Greek mythology, La madre muerta explores how matricide and unconscious matricidal fantasies have been portr...

Taking up Virginia Woolf's fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon ...

This book explores the ways in which contemporary women writers have engaged with the negotiation and representation of identity following the rupt...

Collage and Literature analyzes how and why the history of literature and art changed irrevocably beginning in the early years of the twentieth cen...

This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-fi...

Who would have expected Jane Austen to be up-to-date on gun technology or Virginia Woolf to recognise the class politics of plumbing?Austen and Woo...

Drawing on new archival discoveries, this book presents an authoritative reconstruction of David Joness The Grail Mass, the unfinished and unpublis...