Literary Studies: from c 1900

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

A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels. What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by expl...

Taking its cue from recent theories of literary geography and fiction, Genealogical Fictions argues that narratives of familial decline shape the h...

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

A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization.   When revolutionaries seized Dublin during the 1916 Easter...

The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer Jack Londons fiction has been studied previously for its thematic connections to the oc...

In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Unions collapse from him in order to keep h...

In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Unions collapse from him in order to keep h...

Fitzgerald's work has always deeply moved me, writes John T. Irwin. And this is as true now as it was fifty years ago when I first picked up The Gr...

An inside look at the Inklings and their creative process C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss e...

In Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White, Sarah Gilbreath Ford explores how both black and white southern writers such as Joel Chandler ...

Over the past decade cultural theory has seen a number of 'turns' - the materialist turn, the animal turn, the affective turn - that address the hu...

Honorable Mention, 2024 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award, Caribbean Studies AssociationIn the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric...

Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of p...

Part biography, part cultural history, part literary study, Ruben Gallo's book explores the presence of Latin America in Proust's life and work. Th...

When Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score....

The work of J.R.R. Tolkien has had a profound effect on contemporary fiction and film making, yet criticism often places him at the margins of twen...

With their stirring depictions of a proud people striving for fulfillment in a land of natural beauty and economic hardship, West Virginia authors ...

In the company of wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variet...

The migration of American artists and intellectuals to Europe in the early twentieth century has been amply documented and studied, but few scholar...

This book is about the ambition, in a set of paradigmatic writers of the twentieth century, to simultaneously enlist and break the spell of the rea...

The Banshees traces the feminist contributions of a wide range of Irish American women writers, from Mother Jones, Kate Chopin, and Margaret Mitche...

Race has long been recognized as a formative element of American modernism, but its role in England is less clearly understood. While critics have ...

This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and ...