Literary Studies: from c 1900

In his hard-hitting and controversial book, George Watson examines the foundation texts of socialism to find out what they really say; the result i...

Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi OEzdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this ...

In 1929, Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), a journalist and war correspondent who was on the books of MI6, turned his hand to writing adventure stories f...

The Spring 2020 issue of the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal is dedicated to Pop, a term as disputable as it is ubiquitous. The param...

Explores the depiction of transgender identity in twentieth-century and contemporary literary fictionTransgender and the Literary Imagination is th...

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, William Faulkner was a southerner who became widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers...

In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of ...

The first sustained account of cheap series of reprints that transformed literary modernism from a little-read movement into a mainstream phenomeno...

This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. The bo...

''I love to think of you, Virginia, as my friend ... pray consider how rare it is to find someone with the same passion for writing, who desires to...

Provides much-needed critical analyses of the work of 60s avant-garde writers . Offers focused essays - each presents one author in their cultural/...

This lively new study is the very first book to offer an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. For Scotti...

Explores the transformations of sound in modern literary and cinematic forms from the 1890s to the mid-20th centuryThis volume brings together a ra...

On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, C.S. Lewis was commemorated in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, taking his place beside the greatest nam...

The author uses theories on power, resistance and discipline developed by Michel Foucault to analyze the interactions of mountaineers and the au...

Nora Ephron famously claimed that she wrote about every thought that ever crossed her mind, from her divorce from Carl Bernstein (Heartburn) to ...

After its publication in 1986, Stephen King's novel It sparked sequels, remakes, parodies and solidified an entire genre: clown horror. Decades ...

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

Bringing together internationally leading scholars whose work engages with the continued importance of literary experiment, this book takes up the ...

The opening chapter of Poetry: Interpretations and Influence on the World tries to explain the correlation between history and poetry, as well as a...

Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; they crossed and navigated multicult...

Eduardo de Faria Coutinho''s analysis of Grande Sertao: Veredas places the novel at the intersection of experience, literary history, and artistry....

This title unveils the relationships and intertextualities between this coterie of modernist writers. The relationship between the personal lives o...