Literary Studies: from c 1900

Why, in our supposedly secular age, does the Bible feature prominently in so many influential and innovative works of contemporary U.S. literature?...

From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977) focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American ...

Developing an understanding of eating disorders beyond the biological/medical framework has become a necessity in present times, especially when ea...

Journeys Exposed: Womens Writing, Photography and Mobility examines contemporary literature written by women that are all related to Italy in diffe...

This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism h...

Unlocking the Poetry of W.B. Yeats undertakes a thorough re-reading of Yeats' oeuvre as an extended meditation on the image and theme of the heart ...

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and gr...

Novel Creatures takes a close look at the expanding interest in animals in modern times and argues that the novels of this period reveal a dramatic...

This book offers to delineate a key phenomenon in contemporary Anglophone fiction: novel expansion, when the plot and characters from a finished no...

Anaïs Nin: A Myth of Her Own traces Nins literary craft by following the intimacy of self-exploration and poetic expression attained in the details...

Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradburys Elliott family stories are a unique...

Taking up Virginia Woolf's fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon ...

A sad and corrupt age, a period of crisis and upheavalwhat T.S. Eliot famously summed up as the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contempor...

Transcendent Writers in Stephen Kings Fiction combines a post-Jungian critical perspective of the puer aeternus. Offering new insight into Kings wo...

In Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets, Linda A. Kinnahan explores the making of Mina Loys late modernist poetics...

This book is the first edited collection to explore the role of philosophy in the works of Cormac McCarthy, significantly expanding the scope of ph...

In the mid-twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published Six Articles on London Life in Good Housekeeping magazine, a popular magazine where fashion,...

Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations significantly enhances the interface between postcolonial literary studies and the hitherto under-studied Arab ...

In the mid-twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published Six Articles on London Life in Good Housekeeping magazine, a popular magazine where fashion,...

This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgoss pivotal place in Spanish feminist history by bringing together eminent international scholars ...

How to Read a Diary is an expansive and accessible guidebook that introduces readers to the past, present, and future of diary writing. Grounded in...

In the last two decades Latin American literature has received great critical acclaim in the English-speaking world, although attention has been fo...

Despite the fame Ted Hughess poetry has achieved, there has been surprisingly little critical writing on his childrens literature.This book identif...

The Holocaust Short Story is the only book devoted entirely to representations of the Holocaust in the short story genre. The book highlights how t...