Literary Studies: from c 1900

This critical study examines the theme of interpersonal encounter in a range of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century travel writing writt...

Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway presents an account of the development of tourism in nineteenth-century Norwa...

Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures' is the first published work to offer a variety of alternative perspectives on the li...

This critical study examines the theme of interpersonal encounter in a range of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century travel writing writt...

The great religious poetry of R. S. Thomas and the poetry of the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is rooted in a remarkable late-twen...

Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume exam...

Since the publication of the first children's periodical in the 1750s, magazines have been an affordable and accessible way for children to read an...

Postcolonial Asylum is concerned with asylum as a key emerging postcolonial field. Through an engagement with asylum legislation, legal theory and ...

In 1926, Tom Rolt who was then sixteen years old, abandoned his public school education. Having taken a job with a small firm of agricultural engin...

Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers--W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung--mov...

In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Tóibín looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth...

Robert Scholes passed away on December 9, 2016, leaving behind an intellectual legacy focused broadly on textuality. Scholess work had a significan...

Sometimes the word lyric seems to appear everywhere: either its used interchangeably with the word poetry or it attaches to descriptions of literat...

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces J. R. R. Tolkien's critical engagements with Geoffrey Chaucer from his undergraduate Oxford essays in 1913 to re...

The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France explains the causes of twenty-first-century global migrations and their impact on French literatur...

By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death ...

A new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of long modernism. In recent decades, Virginia Woolfs contribution to literary history has been loca...

This book is the first biography of Nina Berberova. Based on years of archival research, the author deciphers many of the conspicuous omissions (, ...

A downright revolutionary 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the iconic bestselling biography of Nirvana, updated with exclusive new content explor...

This is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives:...

A wide-ranging study of empire, religious prophecy, and nationalism in literature, Russias Rome: Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 18901940 provi...