Literary Studies: from c 1900

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers Doris Les...

Alicia Giménez Bartletts popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy I...

In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a si...

Exploring how Margaret Atwoods fiction reimagines the figure of the detective and the nature of crime, Jackie Shead shows how the author radically ...

While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels, stories, and m...

Bringing together an international group of scholars, this collection offers a fresh assessment of Kazuo Ishiguros evolving significance as a conte...

The first full-length account of D.H. Lawrences rich engagement with a country he found both fascinating and frustrating, D.H. Lawrences Australia ...

Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how trave...

This book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beech...

In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished no...

This title was first published in 2001: This book examines the liberal-communitarian debate from a new perspective. Communitarians argue that liber...

This title was first published in 1999: Examines the range of detective literature produced between 1901 and 1915 in Britain, during the reign of E...

First published in 1998, this volume explores how the genre of school stories had become firmly established by the turn of the twentieth century, h...

This title was first published in 2001: Against Autonomy reassesses Jean-Francois Lyotard's contribution to philosophy and theory, and explores how...

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) was a pioneering female journalist, experimental novelist, playwright, and poet whose influence on literary modernism was ...

Home in British Working-Class Fiction offers a fresh take on British working-class writing that turns away from a masculinist, work-based understan...

This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the Emergency as an event tha...

This book is the first collection on the British author Rose Macaulay (1881-1958). The essays establish connections in her work between modernism a...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

First published in 1999, this volume aims to develop the field of theatre studies by promoting the study of performative elements and thus fosterin...

Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity aims to explain and to interrogate the disciplinary history according to which litera...

At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with ...

At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with ...

Exploring the influence of Shakespeare on drama in Ireland, the author examines works by two representative playwrights: Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) a...

The first book-length study to explore the links between Christianity and modern Japanese literature, this book analyses the process of conversion ...

How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history o...

From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval an...

This book focuses on avant-garde literature and art in Europe and America during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It examines five movem...

The twentieth century was a period of rapid change for religion. Secularisation resulted in a dramatic fall in church attendance in the West, and t...

This monograph identifies the key preoccupations of forty-five primary texts by Jewish women published between 1945 and 2007. These texts have the ...

Looking closely at both case histories of shell shock and Modernist novels by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, Wyatt Bonikowski s...

This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches to the use and study of literary archives. Interrogating literary and archival...

This is a critical study of the construction of gendered spaces through feminine labor and capital in Puerto Rican literature and film (1950-2010)....

Has Chilean author Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) written the final word on Latin America's insufferable modernity? This investigation asserts that Bol...

Zola, The Body Modern: Pressures and Prospects of Representation

Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays dealing with culture in Britain c.1895-1914. B...

Drawing on feminist psychoanalysis and Greek mythology, La madre muerta explores how matricide and unconscious matricidal fantasies have been portr...

Taking up Virginia Woolf's fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon ...

This book explores the ways in which contemporary women writers have engaged with the negotiation and representation of identity following the rupt...

Collage and Literature analyzes how and why the history of literature and art changed irrevocably beginning in the early years of the twentieth cen...

This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-fi...

Who would have expected Jane Austen to be up-to-date on gun technology or Virginia Woolf to recognise the class politics of plumbing?Austen and Woo...

Drawing on new archival discoveries, this book presents an authoritative reconstruction of David Joness The Grail Mass, the unfinished and unpublis...

Kate Chopin on pot smoking. Pauline Hopkins on alchemy and the undead. Sui Sin Far on cross-dressing. Emma Lazarus and Angelina Weld Grimke on lesb...

In Off Whiteness: Place, Blood, and Tradition in Post-Reconstruction Southern Literature, Izabela Hopkins explores the remaking of whiteness in the...

The Indignant Generation is the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Ren...

The 1979 Revolution in Iran caused the migration of millions of Iranians, many of whom wrote, and are still writing, of their experiences. Formed a...