Literary Studies: from c 1900

The nineteenth-century Hispanic world was shattered to its core by war, civil war, and revolution. At the same time, it confronted a new period of ...

Best known for her Kate Delafield detective series, Katherine V. Forrest is recognized as one of the preeminent figures in lesbian popular liter...

The late Ted Hughes felt that healing was the most fundamental characteristic of all poetry yet until now there has been no monograph on Hughes con...

This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscre...

Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson'...

Most famous for The Wilder Shores of Love, her book about four women travellers, Lesley Blanch was a scholarly romantic and a bold writer. Her lif...

This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature. As the author of some of ...

Adopting the term new death, which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James un...

The Artist and the Trinity' aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artist...

Explores how novelists of the mid-century US South invented small towns to aesthetically undermine racial segregation Investigates the role of wri...

Explores the impact of the Russian Revolution and League of Nations on British modernist culture 1917 was the moment in which a new sense of intern...

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction? The means of publishing, buying and...

New essays and creative explorations of the friendship, milieu and writings of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf'I love to think of you, Virgi...

Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov and August Strindberg--innovators of modern drama--created characters whose reckless pursuits of irrational objectiv...

The Book of Tribulations is the earliest complete Muslim apocalyptic text to survive, and as such has considerable value as a primary text. It is u...