Literary Studies: from c 1900

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a comp...

Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels focuses on four highly acclaimed publications in o...

Steampunk is more than a fandom, a literary genre, or an aesthetic. It is a research methodology turning history inside out to search for alternati...

Two orphans face starvation on the prairie of northeastern Kansas during the terrible winter of 1885–86. Dell and Joel Wells, redheads who have bar...

Presents a comparative study of fiction by late twentieth and twenty-first century women writers from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales. This wor...

This new study offers a general reassessment of H. G. Wells as a writer and thinker. It concentrates upon the close relationship between Wells’ dev...

In 1908, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows was published to surprisingly little critical fanfare. But readers championed its cause, and Gra...

Critical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market provides an original answer to what Sarah Brouillette has called postcolonial studies’ ‘long...

On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation ...

In this work, Kay Mussell and Johanna Tuñón collect essays by contemporary North American romance authors who have come to prominence, directly or ...

The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconne...

Dominated by Darwinism and the numerous guises it assumed, evolutionary theory was a source of opportunities and difficulties for late Victorian no...

This book presents an examination of fictional representations, in books and films, of the 1947 Partition that led to the creation of the sovereign...

This volume constitutes both an attack on modern left wing literary theory - the main product of the last Marxist renaissance in the past thirty ye...

Reputation of Louis Aragon (1897-1982) is built upon his activities during the Second World War when his poetry embodied the spirit of the French R...

Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts is a volume which examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of Indian...

When he created the character Dave Robicheaux, author James Lee Burke lent the New Orleans homicide detective a few of his own characteristics: a d...

Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and ...

Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature examines the impact of non-western cul...

Although some critics have identified two phases in the poetry of James Wright and have isolated particulars of his movement from traditional to mo...

In 2005, when John McGahern published his Memoir, he revealed for the first time in explicit detail the specific nature of the autobiographical dim...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complet...

Gary Pak has emerged as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers of our time. In this new collection, Pak expertly crafts a memorable cast ...

In this brief study, originally published in 1984, David Hirst examines the meaning of the term ‘tragicomedy’ by elucidating the most important the...

An examination of the feminist avant-garde aesthetics developed in experimental novels of the mid-1970s.

First Published in 2005. The main purpose of the book is to expand the scope of revisionary studies of the thirties by analyzing novels using recen...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini...

Part of the Blackwell Manifestos series, The State of the Novel offers a lively, yet rigorous investigation into the state and future of the contem...

This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa.The con...

This study explores more recent adaptations published in the last decade whereby women—either authors or their characters—talk back to Shakespeare ...

Demonstrating the pervasive presence of God in modern Hebrew literature, this book explores the qualities that twentieth-century Hebrew writers att...

Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850–1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first “B...

This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao’s writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic writing in...

This volume brings together sixteen essays on British, Irish and American poets from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It offers a se...

Throughout his life, Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the pitfalls of...

Leo Bersani is an eminent literary critic whose influential work spans half a century. His vast, in many ways unclassifiable, oeuvre has traversed ...

Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity: Commercial Cosmopolitanism turns to the author’s late fiction, letters, and essays to investigate his ...

Participating in the reframing of literary studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions identifies, as "cosmopolitan fiction", a genre of global literature that ...

This edited collection of letters by William Empson (1906-1984), one of the foremost writers and literary critics of the twentieth century, ranges ...

Contemporary playwright David Mamet's thought-provoking plays and screenplays such as Wag the Dog, Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won the Pulitz...

This book, first published in 1949, is an abridged version of Mirsky’s classic two texts on Russian literature, updated with a postscript by the ed...

With great care and critical insight, Lynda K. Bundtzen examines Plath's original typescript for Ariel and compares it to the version that was publ...

This book maps the intersections between sociology and feminism in the Indian context. It retrieves the lives and work of women pioneers of and in ...

Engagements with the postcolonial world by International Relations scholars have grown significantly in recent years. The Routledge Handbook of Pos...

Regard for George Oppen's poetry has been growing steadily over the last decade. Peter Nicholls's study offers a timely opportunity to engage with ...

Entertainingly well-written and jargon free, unsentimental but compassionate, using heretofore unavailable material, including the first use of Mas...

What is "Europe" in academic discourse?While Europe tends to be used as shorthand, often interchangeable with the "West", neither the "West" nor "E...