Literary Studies: from c 1900

When we think about George Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who – between puffs on his cigarette – c...

Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets – Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin, Jon Silkin, Thom Gunn and Charles T...

Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letter...

To capture the many Woolfian currents circulating around the world, the twenty-three chapters in this companion examine the global responses Woolf'...

Recurring culture war controversies in the US-ranging from reproductive freedom and gender identity to racial inequality and immigration-often turn...

Luis Rodrguez is a prominent Latinx poet, memoirist and activist renowned for his candid visceral accounts of urban working-class life that include...

Beckett's Co-authors takes a fresh look at Samuel Beckett and the business of authorship, especially his involvement in the complicated machinery o...

This volume explores the nineteenth-century transnational British press published in non-Anglophone countries across Europe, the Levant, the Medite...

New Readings of Elizabeth von Arnim: The Unexpected Modernist consolidates the growing field of Elizabeth von Arnim studies and points to new traje...

First published in 1986, this book sets Kipling firmly in the historical context not only of contemporary India but of prior Anglo-Indian writers a...

Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World studies the ethical and affective relationships between human and nonhuman animals in India...

How do novels travel through time? How might they endure in a changing world and reach the readers of an unknowable future? Modernist writers were ...

First published in 1985, in this book Malcolm Barnes, the editor of Augustus Hare’s autobiography, tries to elucidate: a man who wrote much about o...

The Nazis and their collaborators buried over 100,000 victims at Babyn Yar, a ravine in modern-day Ukraine. Most of the individuals were Jewish, ma...

The Nazis and their collaborators buried over 100,000 victims at Babyn Yar, a ravine in modern-day Ukraine. Most of the individuals were Jewish, ma...

This book scrutinizes Heaney's language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer's responsibility to art and politics. The author, h...

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she...

The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attending not only to her fiction but to her nonfiction ...