Literary Studies: from c 1900

Jose Marti occupies a central place in Latin American letters, and he is an unparalleled foundational figure in Cuban culture. Marti''s writing sh...

John Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex,to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his la...

This book positions Robert Musil's theory and writings within recent critical accounts of modernism and brings him into dialogue with continental p...

This is the first book-length biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens, Mark Twain's wife. Livy was an intelligent, well-educated woman of Victorian ...

Conventional wisdom holds that comic books of the post-World War II era are poorly drawn and poorly written publications, notable only for the furo...

William Trevor: Revaluations offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of one of the most accomplished and celebrated practitioners writing ...

Fascinating and extraordinary, thrilling and poignant, My Judy Garland Life will speak to anyone who has ever nursed an obsession or held a candle ...

A lost and now found memoir of J.B. Priestleywritten by someone who knew him better than most others: his own personal secretary. Written in the 19...

This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first c...

This book explores the concept of quiet an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles and argues for the terms application to the stu...

Margaret Harkness is the first book to bring together research on the life and work of a writer, activist and traveller at the forefront of literar...

Jean Genet and the politics of theatre is the first publication to situate the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and political...

This book is the first comparative study of its kind to explore at length the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth ...

This book takes the concept of postmemory, developed in Holocaust studies, and applies it for the first time to novels by contemporary British writ...

Challenging received opinion and breaking new ground in Kipling scholarship, these essays on Kiplings attitudes to the First World War, to the cult...

The first study to bring Hemingway, Vonnegut, O'Brien, and 9/11 literature together in order to examine views about war, gender, and domesticity ov...

The legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism, is frequently inv...

Challenging readers to rethink what they read and why, the author questions the aesthetic assumptions that have led to the devaluing of fanficti...

This book discusses how and why American modernist writers turned to Ireland at various stages during their careers. By placing events such as the ...

A three-time National Book Award for Fiction winner, Saul Bellow (1915-2005) is one of the most highly regarded American authors to emerge since Wo...

In Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, Satoru Saito sheds light on the deep structural and conceptual similarities between detect...

This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women's movements in their respective...