Literary Studies: from c 1900

Conventional ideas about gender and sexuality dictate that people born with male bodies naturally possess both a man’s identity and a man’s right t...

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a comp...

An indispensable introduction to one of the great critics of the twentieth century, whose work on ideology, aesthetics and social criticism has ens...

For the past 30 years, the so-called 'Troubles' thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland, leading to the cha...

Examining the controversies that have accompanied the publication of novels representing the Holocaust, this compelling book explores such literatu...

In this volume González explores how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin American children today, almost two ...

Originally published in 1986. William Faulkner’s major novels represent one of the earliest American explorations into the paradoxes inherent in bo...

First published in 1998. This reference guide is designed for those who would be knowledge able readers of major short stories by D.H. Lawrence whe...

This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is vo...

In this fascinating book, Leah S. Marcus argues that the colonial context in which Shakespeare was edited and disseminated during the heyday of the...

It has become a critical commonplace that postmodernism no longer serves as an adequate designation for contemporary literature. But what comes aft...

Impossible Modernism reads the writings of German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) and Anglo-American poet and critic T. S. Eliot...

This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contrib...

There is no writer who excels at the art of adaptation for the screen so much as Harold Pinter. His consummate skill and unerring ear for dialogue,...

In 1997 the 50-year-old playwright David Hare decided to visit the 50-year-old state of Israel and write a play - Via Dolorosa - about the conflict...

This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the crossroads of space and border ...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complet...

Gender for the Warfare State is the first scholarly investigation into the written works of U.S. women combat veterans in twenty-first century wars...

This book introduces for the first time selected poetry, letters, and other writings by the German writer Thomas Kunst (Leipzig) to the English-spe...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini...

First published in 1972, this books examines the subject of primitivism through the study of the work of a number of major writers, including D. H....

George Bataille (1867-1962) is widely recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first book in English ...