Literary Studies: from c 1900

This volume aims to introduce undergraduates, graduates, and general readers to the diversity and richness of Canadian short story writing and to t...

The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchells Novels combines the investigation of David Mitchells novels with the introduction of a new critical c...

This is the first survey of Murdochs exploration of evil, addressing aesthetic, philosophical, political and theological perspectives. The study de...

This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V. Spanos articulat...

This book proposes that Ballards novels extrapolate the formation of a posthuman subjectivity that is centred around an affirmative understanding o...

The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell offers a wide-ranging reconsideration of Orwell's life and work, focusing on the extensive connections between...

This book examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present. The historical range of the n...

Jawdat R. Haydar (19052006) was a prominent Lebanese poet from Baalbek, who contributed to world literature in the English language, and was the au...

This groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the p...

Why is voice so important to us? How does the concept of voice encompass such disparate practices as vocal sound, marks on a page, identity product...

Over the five decades of her writing career Willa Cather responded to, and entered into dialogue with, shifts in the terrain of American life. Thes...

Barbara Bray (1924-2010) was an English woman of letters who translated some hundred novels, plays and essays from French to English and was Margue...

What did everyday Hinduism in India look like a hundred years ago? Were its practices more varied and less politically curtailed than now? Hindi Hi...

Essays on teaching a major Latin American writerOften considered a writer who transcends national borders, Jorge Luis Borges also aimed to reinvent...

Essays on teaching a major Latin American writerOften considered a writer who transcends national borders, Jorge Luis Borges also aimed to reinvent...

Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature considers relationships between animals and humans in the iconic spaces of postc...

The Inwardness of Things considers Joseph Conrad as a modern voice in an ancient and enduring quarrel between the poets and the philosophers. Begin...

This book traces literatures long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, material effects. It brings this tradition...

First Published in 1985, the aim of this book is to define an aspect of Orwells literary identity which underlies and informs the sociopolitical co...

Issue 16 of Almanac: The Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English continues its commitment to publishing the best new research by established and emer...

This book uses some of Doris Lessings fictional texts as a springboard for making new contributions to the study of ageing, and more specifically,...