Literary Studies: from c 1900

The first full-length study of modern technologies in late-Victorian New Woman writingThis book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relati...

Brings ideas and animals together to shed new light on modernist magazine cultureTests the concept of 'primordial' modernism as a tributary of prim...

First book-length ecocritical study of Cold War American literatureCompelling analyses of the function and representation of Nature in a wide range...

Provides a single-volume introduction to the important connection of Frankfurt School thought and modernist cultureTyrus Miller's book offers reade...

Explores the connections between Scottish writing and World War IIncludesstudies united by an innovative methodological approach to Scottish World ...

RereadsAntonia White's writing within the context of manic-depressive illnessMisdiagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia instead of what was bipol...

The first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceThe first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceExplores Carver's r...

Wartime British writers took to the airwaves to reshape the nation and the EmpireWriting the Radio War positions the Second World War as a critical...

Explores the trailblazing work of the British literary avant-garde of the 1960sThis collection showcases the liveliness of British avant-garde fict...

Explores the little art communities and their aesthetic products in the early twentieth centuryHistoricizes and theorizes the role and function of ...

The first sustained exegesis of a neglected masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, Samuel Beckett's How It IsThis book maps out the novel's c...

The study of Arabic literature is blossoming. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and di...

Examines the representation of landscape in the poetry of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Robin Robertson and Kenneth WhiteProvides an interdiscipli...

This is an in-depth, original survey of religion in the modern Arabic novel. Tracing the relationship from the genesis of the form in the early 20t...

Exploring revolutionary politics in the work of one of America's most important avant-garde writersKey FeaturesSituates Acker in broader social, po...

Brings ideas and animals together to shed new light on modernist magazine cultureTests the concept of 'primordial' modernism as a tributary of prim...

A revisionist reading of Fitzgerald's short stories through the lens of popular culture from the 1910s to the 1930sF. Scott Fitzgerald is remembere...

In this novel and pioneering study Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur'anic to secular approaches to literature in early 20th-century Egyp...

Academics, postgraduates, upper level undergraduates in Twentieth-Century Literature, The Novel, Modern Fiction, Narrative Theory / Narratology, Li...

(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction: Doomsday Clock Narratives demonstrates that disaster fiction nuclear holocaust and c...

Offers a new understanding of empathy and its relation to medicine and literature, as a critical intervention into the medical humanitiesThis book ...

One of the acknowledged giants of twentieth-century American literature, Robert Frost was a public figure much celebrated in his day. Although his ...

This book challenges the status quo of the materiality of exhibited photographs, by considering examples from the early to mid-twentieth century, w...