Literary Studies: from c 1900

Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery...

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...

The twentieth century saw an unprecedented spike in the study of altered states of consciousness. New ASCs, such as those associated with LSD and p...

New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject: Finite, Singular, Exposed offers new approaches to the modernist subject and its relation ...

This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts, from architecture and art, to literature, digital technol...

Reading London in Wartime: Blitz, the People and Propaganda in 1940s Literature presents an expansive variety of writers and genres, including non-...

Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New ...

This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefini...

The First World War was a transformative experience for women, facilitating their entry into new spaces and alternative spheres of activity, both o...

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealisms many ...

First published in 1990, this book presents a discussion with Arthur Miller, in conversation with Christopher Bigsby. Miller talks openly and exten...

The beginning of the 20th century saw literary scholars from Russia positing a new definition for the nature of literature. Within the framework of...

This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication format...

In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. ...

This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an urgent challenge ...

Global modernisms are marked by tremendous transformations in lifestyle, historical consciousness, cultural values, ethics, wars, and crises. This ...

Focusing on the lineage of pivotal African American and Irish women writers, the author argues that these authors often employ strategies of indire...

This book evaluates the parallels, divergences, and convergences in the literary legacies of Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats. Coming 150 y...

Originally published in 1984. William Faulkner is the most studied American author of our time. This volume presents a collection of some of the be...

Originally published in 1970. Mark Twain is generally known as a childrens writer. This serious and appreciative introduction by I. M. Walker shows...

Jean Rhys' position upon the literary map of the 20th century remains unstable, even after Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). She shunned public exposure an...

Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How Afr...

The Religious-Philosophical Seminar, meeting in Leningrad between 1974-1980, was an underground study group where young intellectuals staged debate...

Utilizing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and Zizek's philosophical adaption of it, this book brings into dialogue a series of modernist and postmode...