Literary Studies: from c 1900

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...

Kate Chopin on pot smoking. Pauline Hopkins on alchemy and the undead. Sui Sin Far on cross-dressing. Emma Lazarus and Angelina Weld Grimke on lesb...

In Off Whiteness: Place, Blood, and Tradition in Post-Reconstruction Southern Literature, Izabela Hopkins explores the remaking of whiteness in the...

The Indignant Generation is the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Ren...

The 1979 Revolution in Iran caused the migration of millions of Iranians, many of whom wrote, and are still writing, of their experiences. Formed a...

Explores the counter-cultural movement known as the Beat GenerationGives a detailed overview of the movement both in the US and internationallyIncl...

In this book Zeina G. Halabi examines the figure of the intellectual as prophet, national icon, and exile in contemporary Arabic literature and fil...

A wide-ranging study of the rise of a new culture of portability and its impact on modernist approaches to fictionLuggage is an overlooked detail i...

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the connections between memory and literature. Organized into six interrelated sections, the book ...

Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matterCacaphonies takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. Read...

Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matterCacaphonies takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. Read...

Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvins paradigmatic model of science fiction, acc...

This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational mode...

A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing Writing Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish litera...

Providesa sustained comparative reading of the relation between Beckett and Blanchot through its novel conception of the language and phenomenon of...

A reading of the philosophical idea of world as it relates to the posthuman subject in Beckett's short proseJonathan Boulter offers the reader a wa...