Literary Studies: from c 1900

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...

Explores the counter-cultural movement known as the Beat GenerationGives a detailed overview of the movement both in the US and internationallyIncl...

In this book Zeina G. Halabi examines the figure of the intellectual as prophet, national icon, and exile in contemporary Arabic literature and fil...

A wide-ranging study of the rise of a new culture of portability and its impact on modernist approaches to fictionLuggage is an overlooked detail i...

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the connections between memory and literature. Organized into six interrelated sections, the book ...

Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matterCacaphonies takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. Read...

Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matterCacaphonies takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. Read...

Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvins paradigmatic model of science fiction, acc...

This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational mode...

A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing Writing Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish litera...

Providesa sustained comparative reading of the relation between Beckett and Blanchot through its novel conception of the language and phenomenon of...

A reading of the philosophical idea of world as it relates to the posthuman subject in Beckett's short proseJonathan Boulter offers the reader a wa...

The first full-length study of modern technologies in late-Victorian New Woman writingThis book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relati...

Brings ideas and animals together to shed new light on modernist magazine cultureTests the concept of 'primordial' modernism as a tributary of prim...

First book-length ecocritical study of Cold War American literatureCompelling analyses of the function and representation of Nature in a wide range...

Provides a single-volume introduction to the important connection of Frankfurt School thought and modernist cultureTyrus Miller's book offers reade...

Explores the connections between Scottish writing and World War IIncludesstudies united by an innovative methodological approach to Scottish World ...

RereadsAntonia White's writing within the context of manic-depressive illnessMisdiagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia instead of what was bipol...

The first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceThe first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceExplores Carver's r...

Wartime British writers took to the airwaves to reshape the nation and the EmpireWriting the Radio War positions the Second World War as a critical...

Explores the trailblazing work of the British literary avant-garde of the 1960sThis collection showcases the liveliness of British avant-garde fict...

Explores the little art communities and their aesthetic products in the early twentieth centuryHistoricizes and theorizes the role and function of ...

The first sustained exegesis of a neglected masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, Samuel Beckett's How It IsThis book maps out the novel's c...

The study of Arabic literature is blossoming. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and di...