Literary Studies: from c 1900

For women-identified writers of both eras, the fantastic offered double vision. Not only did the genre offer strategic cover for challenging the st...

This book analyses the way that HIV/AIDS is often narrativised and represented in contemporary world cultures, as well as the different strategies ...

Exploring how the modern novel's complex depictions of parenthood restructure traditional conceptions of the Romantic sublime, Erin K. Johns Speese...

Offering the first book-length consideration of Edward Upward (1903-2009), one of the major British left-wing writers, this collection positions hi...

Architectural relics of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colon...

In this new research monograph, Tudor Balinsteanu draws on concepts of dance to demonstrate how the nonhuman is dealt with in terms of practical po...

Moving beyond the postcolonial literature fields traditional focus on the novel, this book shines a light on the minor genres in which postcolonial...

This interdisciplinary collection explores the confluence of American and British (neo)imperalism in the Pacific, as represented in various forms o...

Latin American Technopoetics: Scientific Explorations in New Media analyzes the ways in which poetry and multimedia installations by six prominent ...

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature presents a comprehensive overview of Chinese literature from the 1910s to the present day. Feat...

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives ...

The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction tracks the emergence of a new type of physically and/or spiritually wounded hero(ine) in contemporary fict...

Why, in our supposedly secular age, does the Bible feature prominently in so many influential and innovative works of contemporary U.S. literature?...

From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977) focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American ...

Developing an understanding of eating disorders beyond the biological/medical framework has become a necessity in present times, especially when ea...

Journeys Exposed: Womens Writing, Photography and Mobility examines contemporary literature written by women that are all related to Italy in diffe...

This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism h...

Unlocking the Poetry of W.B. Yeats undertakes a thorough re-reading of Yeats' oeuvre as an extended meditation on the image and theme of the heart ...

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and gr...

Novel Creatures takes a close look at the expanding interest in animals in modern times and argues that the novels of this period reveal a dramatic...

This book offers to delineate a key phenomenon in contemporary Anglophone fiction: novel expansion, when the plot and characters from a finished no...

Anaïs Nin: A Myth of Her Own traces Nins literary craft by following the intimacy of self-exploration and poetic expression attained in the details...

Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradburys Elliott family stories are a unique...

Taking up Virginia Woolf's fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon ...

A sad and corrupt age, a period of crisis and upheavalwhat T.S. Eliot famously summed up as the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contempor...

Transcendent Writers in Stephen Kings Fiction combines a post-Jungian critical perspective of the puer aeternus. Offering new insight into Kings wo...

In Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets, Linda A. Kinnahan explores the making of Mina Loys late modernist poetics...

This book is the first edited collection to explore the role of philosophy in the works of Cormac McCarthy, significantly expanding the scope of ph...

In the mid-twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published Six Articles on London Life in Good Housekeeping magazine, a popular magazine where fashion,...

Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations significantly enhances the interface between postcolonial literary studies and the hitherto under-studied Arab ...

In the mid-twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published Six Articles on London Life in Good Housekeeping magazine, a popular magazine where fashion,...

This collection of essays confirms Carmen de Burgoss pivotal place in Spanish feminist history by bringing together eminent international scholars ...

How to Read a Diary is an expansive and accessible guidebook that introduces readers to the past, present, and future of diary writing. Grounded in...

In the last two decades Latin American literature has received great critical acclaim in the English-speaking world, although attention has been fo...

Despite the fame Ted Hughess poetry has achieved, there has been surprisingly little critical writing on his childrens literature.This book identif...

The Holocaust Short Story is the only book devoted entirely to representations of the Holocaust in the short story genre. The book highlights how t...

Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery...

Anaïs Nin: A Myth of Her Own traces Nins literary craft by following the intimacy of self-exploration and poetic expression attained in the details...

The twentieth century saw an unprecedented spike in the study of altered states of consciousness. New ASCs, such as those associated with LSD and p...

New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject: Finite, Singular, Exposed offers new approaches to the modernist subject and its relation ...

This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts, from architecture and art, to literature, digital technol...

Reading London in Wartime: Blitz, the People and Propaganda in 1940s Literature presents an expansive variety of writers and genres, including non-...

Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New ...

This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefini...

The First World War was a transformative experience for women, facilitating their entry into new spaces and alternative spheres of activity, both o...

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealisms many ...

First published in 1990, this book presents a discussion with Arthur Miller, in conversation with Christopher Bigsby. Miller talks openly and exten...

The beginning of the 20th century saw literary scholars from Russia positing a new definition for the nature of literature. Within the framework of...