Literary Studies: from c 1900

Metaphors of Invention and Dissension explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel, examining six n...

The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature & History After Empire undertakes a detailed analysis of the use of medicine as a recurrent and def...

Poetry & Strikes examines shifting representations of strike action in the work of six British poets from the 1970s to the present day. It cons...

Writers in contemporary Lebanon stand at the crossroads of challenging and often violent dynamics in a multi-ethnic postcolonial society, where com...

Abdelkébir Khatibi (19382009) is one of the greatest Moroccan thinkers, and one of the most important theorists of both postcolonialism and Islamic...

What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve bein...

Contemporary African American writing negotiates the twinned crises of anthropogenic climate change and anti-Black violence by thinking in new ways...

The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances brings together sixteen of the most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to examine the Nobel Pr...

Presents authoritative analyses of the religious terrain of the modernist period Presents authoritative scholarly analyses of the religious terrai...

This study provides an engaging overview and clear analysis of the fiction, non-fiction and drama of African-American writer James Baldwin (1924-19...

In Steinbeck's Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck's writing. DeMot...

The study of French science fiction even in France remains an underexploited field. Only recently have French literary scholars been able to gain...

Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written li...

According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. Empty Houses challenges ...

This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of clonin...

Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious...

Based on previously unexploited primary sources, this is the first comprehensive biography of Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the pioneers of Modern Heb...

Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction examines the ways contemporary American fiction develops digital cultures through t...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both refle...

This collection of essays offers the first comprehensive treatment of British and American films adapted from modern British plays. Offering insigh...

Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteent...

Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteent...