Literary Studies: from c 1900

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called brilliant. After gaining exclusive access to ...

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called brilliant. After gaining exclusive access to ...

Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of wo...

An affective reading of twentieth-century Afro-Cuban literature focussing on a set of concerns ranging from the filial to the erotic. This book pr...

In Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipita...

Legendary New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell is considered to be among the greatest baseball writers to date. He brought a fans love, a fict...

This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creati...

In a book that compares Virginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (18621952), Molly Hite ...

Russian Nobel prizewinner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (19182008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figuresand perhaps the most importa...

This book is both a study of how James Joyce created two of the most iconic characters in literatureLeopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy Bloomas well as...

This collection of original, concise essays by leading international scholars draws closely on the Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D....

Marking the 50th anniversary of Lewis death, The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis sees leading Christian thinker Alister McGrath offering a fresh ...

Written shortly before her death this book documents the activities of a Muslim princess who rebelled against societal conventions to take an activ...

Long-awaited and comprehensive biography of the great Irish author James JoyceJames Joyce was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century,...

Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic is a compelling new volume in Hélène Cixous's search for lost time. Readers of earlier volumes - Hemlock ...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Richly intelligent insights on every page' ...

In his hard-hitting and controversial book, George Watson examines the foundation texts of socialism to find out what they really say; the result i...

Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi OEzdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this ...

In 1929, Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), a journalist and war correspondent who was on the books of MI6, turned his hand to writing adventure stories f...

The Spring 2020 issue of the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal is dedicated to Pop, a term as disputable as it is ubiquitous. The param...

Explores the depiction of transgender identity in twentieth-century and contemporary literary fictionTransgender and the Literary Imagination is th...

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, William Faulkner was a southerner who became widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers...

In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of ...

The first sustained account of cheap series of reprints that transformed literary modernism from a little-read movement into a mainstream phenomeno...

This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. The bo...

''I love to think of you, Virginia, as my friend ... pray consider how rare it is to find someone with the same passion for writing, who desires to...

Provides much-needed critical analyses of the work of 60s avant-garde writers . Offers focused essays - each presents one author in their cultural/...

This lively new study is the very first book to offer an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. For Scotti...

Explores the transformations of sound in modern literary and cinematic forms from the 1890s to the mid-20th centuryThis volume brings together a ra...

On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, C.S. Lewis was commemorated in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, taking his place beside the greatest nam...

The author uses theories on power, resistance and discipline developed by Michel Foucault to analyze the interactions of mountaineers and the au...

Nora Ephron famously claimed that she wrote about every thought that ever crossed her mind, from her divorce from Carl Bernstein (Heartburn) to ...

After its publication in 1986, Stephen King's novel It sparked sequels, remakes, parodies and solidified an entire genre: clown horror. Decades ...

The first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceThe first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceExplores Carver's r...

Bringing together internationally leading scholars whose work engages with the continued importance of literary experiment, this book takes up the ...

The opening chapter of Poetry: Interpretations and Influence on the World tries to explain the correlation between history and poetry, as well as a...

Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; they crossed and navigated multicult...

Eduardo de Faria Coutinho''s analysis of Grande Sertao: Veredas places the novel at the intersection of experience, literary history, and artistry....

This title unveils the relationships and intertextualities between this coterie of modernist writers. The relationship between the personal lives o...

Jonathan Lethem is the first full-length study dedicated to the work of an exciting, genre-busting contemporary writer with an increasingly high pr...

A bibliography of the published works of Laurie Lee, compiled from the authors own collection and the Laurie Lee Archive in the British Library. Al...

Though he published just a handful of major works in his lifetime, James Joyce (1882-1941) continues to fascinate readers around the world and r...

Richard Yates (1926-1992) has been described as a writer's writer but has never received the critical attention befitting that designation. Firm...

Lauded by critics yet largely unappreciated by fans of horror and weird fiction, T.E.D. Klein is considered one of the great horror writers, des...

Although the year 1984 is hurtling back into the distant past, Orwell''s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to have a huge readership and to help...

First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print. Yet most people are familiar with the title character from the movie...