Literary Studies: from c 1900

The American Poet Laureate shows how the state has been the silent center of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the f...

The American Poet Laureate shows how the state has been the silent center of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the f...

This book presents J. M. Coetzee's work as a complex, nuanced counterblast to contemporary, global, neoliberal economics and its societies. Not sur...

This is a book about contemporary literary and artistic entanglements: word and image, media and materiality, inscription and illustration. It prop...

The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature identifies a documentary impulse in French literature that emerges at the end of...

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives ...

This book examines a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards the récit d'enfance, or childhood memoir, and asks why this occu...

The aim of this collection of essays is to explore negative characters in espionnage narratives of some of the most esteemed English writers, such ...

An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writer...

This book probes the complex relationship between memory and storytelling in contemporary literature. It not only examines how memory is constantly...

William Empson is, alongside T. S. Eliot, the greatest genius among twentieth-century critics, and Some Versions of Pastoral is widely recognised a...

This wide-ranging and entertaining book explores blank space from incunabula to Google books. Blanks are a paradox--simultaneously nothing and some...

The Last Word argues that the Hollywood novel opened up space for cultural critique of the film industry at a time when the industry lacked the cap...

This book presents Czesaw Miosz's poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of religious faith, transcendence, and the value of the huma...

Many Americans' first encounter with international modernism came, not on the page, but in person-through the widespread phenomenon of the US lectu...

African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era: Transgressive Performativity of Black Vulnerability as Praxis in Everyday Life explores the ...

The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry, and not with the world in which it was created; deemed utter...

Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire addresses the relationship between culture and politics in two journals published in Euro...

Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: Reframing Crime and Justice is the first academic book to focus on crime fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers. I...

This book focuses on the cultural reception of Milton and his works in nineteenth-century America. Using reception theory, the work analyzes the co...

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Keith Roberts's Pavane and explores why this work was instrumental to the evolution of the Science Fiction...

Post Anthropocenes: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Posthuman Ecocriticism explores three distinct yet interrelated approaches to understanding the s...

This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and ...

Antonin Artauds last large-scale work, published in its complete form in English for the first time. Drawings on texts and letters dating from 1946...

Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique thei...

One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the...

Some of the most innovative works of poetry and art in the postwar period (1945-1970) engaged in a 'contextual practice' - both a way of making art...

Into our Labours explores the literary representation of work across the globe since 1850, setting out to show that the literature of modernity is ...

In this groundbreaking study, Denise Cruz investigates the importance of the figure she terms the transpacific Filipina to Philippine nationalism, ...

This collection brings together fifteen chapters written by scholars specializing in disciplines ranging from anthropology and sociology to literat...

Mobility and Corporeality in 19th and 21st Century Anglophone Literature: Bodies in Motion aims at exploring the intersection of literary, mobility...

This book explores contemporary womens historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on inte...

This book explores contemporary womens historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on inte...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 5, spanning 1932 through May 1934, traces the completion and publication of Death in the Afternoon and Winn...

Examining three literary traditions post-1960 Asian American, Asian Canadian and Black experimental poetry this book reframes contemporary schola...

This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field of Irish studies to explore the significance of twenty-first-century Irish writing and...

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, A...

George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebr...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. A State of P...

Portrait photography increased in popularity during the modernist period and offered new ways of seeing and understanding the human face. This book...

During the interwar years in France, modernist literature challenged norms around sex and sexuality through daring portrayals of homosexuality and ...

This momentous study of Benjamin's critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton's thought. Its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamin's app...