Literary Studies: from c 1900

The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the art...

Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the C...

How to Live, What to Do is an indispensable introduction to and guide through the work of a poet equal in power and sensibility to Shakespeare and ...

Bodies on the Line offers the first sustained study of the poetry reading in its most formative period: the 1960s. Raphael Allison closely examines...

Depicted in popular films, television series, novels, poems, and countless media reports, Sylvia Plaths women readers have become nearly as legenda...

In this title, originally published in 1950, the author has set out to give a description and a critical assessment of the most important (not nece...

In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative conte...

Writing, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) was among the ...

Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from diffe...

Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to the decolonisation were faced with an impossible dilemma. How could they redefine their culture...

How should we read Lolita? The beginning of an answer is that we should read it the way all great works deserve to be read: with attention and inte...

Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gérard Genette as one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel. Dialo...

Anita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. Misreading Anita Brookner unlocks the mysteries of the famously depr...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.This volume contributes ...

The years between 1900 and 1915 were a crucial period in Wallace Stevens' poetic career. But until Robert Buttel was given access to 30 manuscript ...

Utopias fail. Utopias of one do not. They are perfect worlds. Yet their success comes at a cost. They are radically singularand thus exclusive and ...

Taking account of Ford Madox Fords entire literary output, this companion brings together prominent Ford specialists to offer an overview of existi...

Wendy Cope is one of Britains most popular poets: her first two collections have together sold almost half a million copies, and in 1998, when Ted ...

Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D. H. Lawrence spans the full range o...

Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind t...

This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion o...

Franz Kafkas classic 1915 novella remains one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Susan...

W.B. Yeats went to great lengths to design his self-image which biographers have been slow to challenge. Following on from Blood Kindred (2005), Mc...