Literary Studies: from c 1900

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...

Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume examines J.M. Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to Diary of a Bad Yea...

Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston,...

Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston,...

Since its publication in 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel has experienced global success, not only as a novel but in theatrical and film adaptations. Sa...

The nineteenth century was the heyday of travel, with Britons continually reassessing their own culture in relation to not only the colonized but a...

The History of the Book in South Asia covers not only the various modern states that make up South Asia today but also a multitude of languages and...

Focusing on the significance of place, connection and relationship in three poets who are seldom considered in conjunction, Rory Waterman argues th...

In her timely contribution to revisionist approaches in modernist studies, Lorraine Sim offers a reading of Virginia Woolf's conception of ordinary...

In her timely contribution to revisionist approaches in modernist studies, Lorraine Sim offers a reading of Virginia Woolf's conception of ordinary...

In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Pa...

In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Pa...

In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Pa...

Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical co...

Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical co...

James Joyce is one of the most well-known modernist writers of the twentieth century, whose novels are special in that they use a form that he popu...

Cocteau had an ambition many a poet has: to become immortal. But he, perhaps more than most, addressed this ambition directly in a great many of hi...

This book contributes to various political debates about Central Europe in terms of its literary-symbolic geography. The author contends that the r...

How did romanticism define its relationship with its sources? How has romanticism since been understood and misunderstood across a range of cultura...

This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry and some of the most significant poets working in the Eng...

The cafe is not only a place to enjoy a cup of coffee, it is also a space - distinct from its urban environment - in which to reflect and take part...

Günter Grass is one of the writers who grew up in a Germany already in the grip of Nazism. None of them has found better ways than his of translati...

Originally published in 1985, this study provides a clear and intelligent introduction to the work of the former Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes. The aut...

'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... an exceptional anthology, fascinating and ...

This book sets out to elucidate Conrads unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars and graduate students engag...

The volume asks how the literatures of the Americas and the Caribbean present multiple or internally differentiated spaces and how these are distin...

In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipela...

This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polis...

By placing these books in a broader cultural frame however, Anna Watz exposes how female submission has been disseminated as a consumer product. N...

This edited collection focuses on the nexus between literary consumption, memory and collective identity formation in Russia from the 1980s until t...

Understanding (Post)feminist Girlhood Through Young Adult Fantasy Literature takes advantage of growing critical interest in popular young adult te...

In recent years Seamus Heaney has earned the reputation of being the most important Irish poet since Yeats. In this book, originally published in 1...

In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipela...

This book interrogates canonical Indian English fiction which has Dalit characters as protagonists or major characters, and argues that the represe...

Graham Greene is an immensely popular as well as powerful and idiosyncratic writer. His leading characters are murderers, spies, fugitives and outs...

Explores the process of becoming woman through an analysis of the depiction of girls and young women in contemporary Anglo-American and German lite...