Literary Studies: from c 1900

Ian McEwan is one of the most significant, and controversial, British novelists working today. His books are both critically - and academically - a...

Lesbian Realities/Lesbian Fictions in Contemporary Spain, edited by Nancy Vosburg and Jacky Collins, focuses exclusively on manifestations of lesbi...

George Bernard Shaw is commonly regarded as one of the most controversial intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century. Known for the a...

This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is ...

With much recent scholarship polarizing frontier novels into “popular” and “literary” camps, The Word Rides Again challenges the critical orthodoxy...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions ...

Situated at the intersection of the colonial and the postcolonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, and...

Tracing the solitude of the American self, the difference between idolatrous and companionate affection, and the dream of an "America of love," Eri...

Modernist Alchemy takes a close look at the work of twentieth-century poets whose use of the occult constitutes a recovery of discarded beliefs and...

Free Will in Montaigne, Pascal, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire and Sartre takes the reader on a journey through the corridors of time to explore the e...

Winner of the 2006 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary Studies, presented by the Western Literature Association In The Emergence...

This revisionist narrative of poetic change in the twentieth century challenges the accepted notions of what poetry is and can be in the new centur...

This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nine...

Many aspects of British detective fiction are intriguingly different from the American detective fiction. And, confusingly, many of the British ...

This book explores the multifaceted concepts of otherness, barbarism and exteriority. Is encountering the ‘Other’ still possible in a world in whic...

Thomas Mann owes his place in world literature to the dissemination of his works through translation. Indeed, it was the monumental success of the ...

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing philosophy, literature, politics and history, John Foley examines the full breadth of Camus' i...

In the 1920s, the playwright Sidney Howard and his wife, actress Clare Eames, were at the heart of the movement to change the American theater from...

"The unending tragedy of Reconstruction," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois, "is the utter inability of the American mind to grasp its... national and worldwi...

As the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932) in many ways established...

This comprehensive study of author, Thomas Harris' popular works focuses particularly on Harris' internationally known antihero Hannibal ""The Cann...

Winner, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, 2006Popular fic...

Many of Wilson’s writings have been anthologized. But there is another body of work — over fifty fine essays on aspects of contemporary literature ...

The sonnet is the strictest form I have behaved in, and only then by pretending it wasn't a sonnet, Frost once wrote to Louis Untermeyer. Frost wro...