Literary Studies: from c 1900

In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. Richard Wright in a P...

Until the late twentieth century, relatively few Americans knew that the United States government forcibly detained nearly 120,000 Japanese America...

A literary history of Arthur Conan Doyle's work with the Strand Magazine in the twentieth centuryYou know Arthur Conan Doyle as the stereotypically...

Graphic novels (kurimchaek) are a major art form in North Korea, produced by agents of the regime to set out its vision in a range of important are...

Los Angeles is a city of borders and lines, from the freeways that transect its neighborhoods to streets like Pico Boulevard that slash across the ...

Chicano/a fiction is often understood as a literature of resistance to the dominant U.S. Anglo culture and society. But reducing this rich literar...

A new story about the relationships between major twentieth-century English-language poets. Why did poets from the United States, Britain, and Ire...

The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the a...

William Goyen was a writer of startling originality and deep artistic commitment whose work attracted an international audience and the praise of s...

Mike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magaz...

Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to crea...

This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialize...

As publishers in private printing presses, as writers of dissident texts and as political campaigners against censorship and for intellectual freed...

After one hundred years of modernism and with the centennial anniversaries of Woolf's Jacob's Room (1922) and Mrs. Dalloway (1925), Virginia Woolf ...

Prolific, popular and critically acclaimed, Michael Moorcock is the most important British fantasy author of his generation. His Elric of Melnib...

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

This volume of the BDMP series charts the genesis of three iconic Beckett plays: Not I (1973), That Time (1976) and Footfalls (1976), all translate...

Annie Proulx is one of the most provocative and stylistically innovative writers in America today. She is at her best in the short story format, an...

Alfred Bester's classic short stories and the canonical novel The Stars My Destination made him a science fiction legend. Fans and scholars praise ...

James Joyce's astonishing final text, Finnegans Wake (1939), is universally acknowledged to be entirely untranslatable. And yet, no fewer than fift...

Barcelona, City of Margins studies the creation of a space of dissent in the 1950s and 1960s that became the pillar of the protest movements during...

In the 1920s, with the end of the revolution, the Soviet government began investing resources and energy into creating a new type of book for the f...

Although a large body of work has emerged which addresses neoliberal representations of the family in other cultural forms (such as parenting advic...