Literary Studies: from c 1900

This book explores core issues in the emerging field of World Anglophone Studies. It shows that traditional frameworks based on the colonial and im...

This book explores core issues in the emerging field of World Anglophone Studies. It shows that traditional frameworks based on the colonial and im...

This book argues for the critical potential of locating the girl as the subject-position and voice of legal critique.Laws imaginary is notoriously ...

This volume explores the possibilities and potentialities of negative affect in postcolonial literature and literary theory, featuring work on post...

Latin American literature has depicted warrior woman and trans warrior characters in armed conflicts, but literary critics have not paid much atten...

Latin American literature has depicted warrior woman and trans warrior characters in armed conflicts, but literary critics have not paid much atten...

Recognised now as one of the most important voices to emerge from Scotland's literary 'Renaissance' in the 1930s, the full extent of Nan Shepherd's...

Interest in race and ethnicity research in Wales has grown apace in the last decade, opening up wider debates about the nature, focus and content o...

J.G. Ballard's Crash (1973) remains a byword for transgression in literature: declared 'too disgusting for words' upon publication. The basis for D...

Most known for his creative fictions that tackle literary questions of authorship as well as more philosophical notions such as multiverse theory, ...

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Shades of Gray Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the tw...

Returns us to Gertrude Steins theater by way of the modernist medium of radio What happens when we listen to Gertrude Steins plays as radio and mus...

Returns us to Gertrude Steins theater by way of the modernist medium of radio What happens when we listen to Gertrude Steins plays as radio and mus...

Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Cities explores the complex interrelations of three key critical topics across a divers...

A study of how Kazuo Ishiguros novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of t...

Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of W...

What does it feel like to experience the sacred today? Examining in detail many of this centurys most significant writers, including Margaret Atwo...

This transdisciplinary collection investigates relations of living and learning with as compelling forms of engagement and care between humans, non...

Franz Fühmanns (1922-1984) Werk fasziniert durch seine Vielschichtigkeit und seine eindrucksvolle Breite an Genres und Themen. Er war gleichermaßen...

Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies, this open access book analyse...

2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSalvific Manhood foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James ...

The term Gothic has rarely been brought to bear on contemporary South African fictions, appearing too fanciful for the often overtly political writ...

The comparative analysis of Welsh and English found in this book is based on a translation corpus consisting of just over thirty novels and autobio...

The comparative analysis of Welsh and English found in this book is based on a translation corpus consisting of just over thirty novels and autobio...

In recent decades, critical and theoretical debate in the field of culture and literature has called into question many literary categories, has re...

This book reconstructs the poetics of Carmen Martín Gaite by viewing the concept of journey as a fundamental principle upon which she bases and ela...

Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history....

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy. It covers the range and extent of ...

This volume explores comics as examples of moral outrage in the face of a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young live...

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about childrens literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise qu...

In the first book-length treatment of Elizabeth von Arnim's fiction, Isobel Maddison examines her work in its historical and intellectual contexts,...

Offering the first book-length consideration of Edward Upward (1903-2009), one of the major British left-wing writers, this collection positions hi...

Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they have inspired, Reflecting on Darwin poses the followi...

Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they have inspired, Reflecting on Darwin poses the followi...

Bringing together childrens literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals o...

Bringing together childrens literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals o...

Victoria Bazin examines the poetry of Marianne Moore as it is shaped by and responsive to the experience of being a modern woman, of living in the ...

Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French...