Literary Studies: from c 1900

This is the first volume of a two-part collection following on from O'Leary's Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State 1922-1939. Although the 1940s ar...

At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the wordand the words power to redeemhas almost ...

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

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth a...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Steel City Readers makes availabl...

Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 19872007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Irela...

Lewis Grassic Gibbon galvanised the Scottish literary scene in 1932 with Sunset Song, the first novel of the epic trilogy A Scots Quair, which drew...

A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, an elderly white woman, and Cub, a British-Jamaican ...

Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948) investigates the relationship between literature and politics during Mongolias early revolutionary ...

Parody often stands accused of producing derivative art deficient in taste and skill. But in the hands of writers such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis...

Marcel Prousts seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu), has inspired many superlatives, among them the gre...

Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British a...

Carl Abbott, who has taught urban studies and urban planning in five decades, brings together urban studies and literary studies to examine how fic...

The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the...

The production, reception and discussion of fanfiction is a major aspect of contemporary global media. Thus far, however, the genre has been subjec...

The diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (19141943) have a special place among the Jewish-Dutch testimonies of the Shoah, so much so that Etty Hill...

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

This book aims to put Walter de la Mare back on the literary map. A writer beloved by many, he has nevertheless remained on the sidelines of litera...

An engaging study of Black Feminism as expressed through literature written by and about Black girlsIn Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhoo...

This book explores Wordsworths extraordinary influence on the tourist landscapes of the Lake District throughout the age of railways, motorcars and...

This book examines Samuel Becketts unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanisms postwar crisisthe courage to go on living even after experienc...

This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Batailles essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. In ...

In a career that spanned over thirty years, Iain M. Banks became one of the best-loved and most prolific writers in Britain, with his space opera s...