Literary Studies: from c 1900

The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale of illicit desire, grand...

What are the sourcesand the effectsof the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? What happens to that power when conventionality tips in...

How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Ara...

Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, romance often involves encounters with exotic pla...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. In Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in ...

The tragic conscience of modern Chinas most revered critic-translator, Fou Lei, is portrayed in this biography. Discoveries made in Parisian archiv...

This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrat...

Opening with an analysis of the concept of self-construal from Ren Descartes and Immanuel Kant to the beginning of the new millennium, this collect...

This book is a study of contemporary travel writing as a contested field of political and historical articulations. It poses the question of the re...

Informed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the c...

An exploration of the serialization of children's classics by contemporary publishers, this book digs into the impact of the practice and provides ...

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture...

With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. After...

Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian li...