Literary Studies: from c 1900

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...

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...