Literary Studies: from c 1900

This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theor...

Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction examines fantastic representations of sport in science fiction, both cataloguing this almost entirely unex...

The rapidity of postwar globalization and the structural changes it has brought to both social and spatial aspects of everyday life has meant, in F...

Using a broad range of archival material from Washington University, St. Louis, the University of Glasgow, and the British Library, Useless Activit...

This volume of essays surveys gastronomy across global literary modernisms. Modernists explore public and domestic spaces where food and drink are ...

Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and K...

An examination of the ways major novels by Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf draw attention to their embodiment in the object of the b...

Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten sensation novel was a publis...

Ronald Hush traces the organic development of the poem and demonstrates that what seems to be eccentricity in the Cantos frequently corresponds to ...

Branding the Beur Author focuses on the mainstream media promotion of literature written by the descendants of North African immigrants to France (...

In France, the fundamental intellectual debate over ecology might best be summarized by the contrasting views of Michel Serres and Luc Ferry. In Th...

In the wake of the Second World War, ideas of Europe abounded. What did Europe mean as a concept, and what did it mean to be European? Europeanisin...

Lawrence's autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers was written in four drafts between August 1910 and November 1912. During that period Lawrence's m...

This book considers the differing emotional investments in Israel of, on the one hand, Jews physically domiciled in Israel and, on the other hand, ...

Being Contemporary is a volume of original essays by 23 preeminent scholars of French and Comparative literature, hailing from both sides of the At...

Hybridity theory, the creative dissemination and restless to-and-fro of Homi Bhabhas Third Space or of Stuart Halls politics of difference, for exa...

Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction offers a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about crime fiction. It seeks ...

Pacifist Invasions is about what happens to the francophone lyric in the translingual Franco-Arabic context. Drawing on lyric theory, comparative p...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Who ever thought they would one ...

The formulation egalitarian strangeness is a direct borrowing from Courts voyages au pays du peuple [Short Voyages to the Land of the People] (1990...

This book covers the full range and diversity of Chilean literature from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. By emphasizing transnati...

In the aftermath of the efflorescence of experimental literature and theory that characterized the Trente Glorieuses (1945-75), contemporary French...

The Dinner at Gonfarones is organised as a partial biography, covering five years in the life of the young Nicaraguan poet, Salomón de la Selva, bu...

The Residue of Dreams is the first English-language publication of the classical-style poems of Jao Tsung-i (b. 1917), a prominent artist-calligrap...