Literary Studies: from c 1900

A sequence of fragments seems the most appropriate form for a work of this kind, introductory, surveying, essentially personal, marked, as with all...

Depictions of the zombie apocalypse continue to reshape our concept of the walking dead (and of ourselves). The undead mirror cultural fears--go...

The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the condition of ...

This volume attempts an objective reassessment of the controversial works and life of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Ignoring secondary...

In Spite of All is a memoir by a Portuguese poet, of another Portuguese poet: Alberto de Lacerda, an almost legendary figure in expatriate circles....

This volume, featuring essays by a number of poets and critics, is the first survey of Peter Hughes' poetry, and is published simultaneously with h...

Asa Benveniste (1925-1990) who founded the legendary Trigram Press in London in 1965, ostensibly to publish Anglo-American cutting-edge poetry, was...

Throughout history, men have prayed to gods and poets have interpreted ancient myths for new audiences. But what about women? With sections on t...

Chuck Palahniuk, America's premier transgressive novelist, enjoys a tremendous readership. Yet he has not necessarily been embraced by critics o...

The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the relationships amo...

Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit nature. For him,...

Starting with William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective...

At the 2013 Celebrating The Hobbit conference at Valparaiso University - marking the 75th anniversary of the book's publication and the first inst...

The idea of place--any place--remains one of our most basic yet slippery concepts. It is a space with boundaries whose limits may be definite or in...

Harry Potter has given the study of popular culture a unique platform for exploring the nature of human identity. Potter Studies is developing i...

Since 9/11, war literature has become a key element in American popular culture, spurring critical debate about depictions of combat--Who can wr...

Following German writer Christa Wolfs death in December 2011, the scholarly interest that her work had generated over four decades now culminates i...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of So...

Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of So...

This volume will be of interest to everyone seeking to understand the relationship between war as an historical narrative and its representation in...

H. G. Wells played a central role in defining the intellectual, political, and literary character of the twentieth century. A prolific literary inn...

Analyzes two groups of musical novels -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Mic...

The essays in this revised and expanded volume explore a variety of structuring taxonomies, the relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles a...

This book aims to provide an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, who is generally considered one of the gr...

Samuel Becketts theatrical works maintain a prominent position within contemporary theatre. His plays provide a prodigious potential to study sever...

This book is an exploration of how the relationship of evangelicals to the arts has been portrayed in fiction for the last century. The author argu...

This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic bo...

During the Great Depression, Henry Alsberg, a journalist with a passion for social justice, directed the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal pr...

Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries have sparked off intense fan activity and generated a large quantity of fan fiction: stories which tes...

Analyzes two groups of musical novels -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Mic...

Through the perspectives of selected novels from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century--including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill ...

The New Edith Wharton Studies uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding of one of America's most ...

Originally published in 1981 Ernest Hemingway is a collection of papers from the Hemingway Collection conference of 1980. The essays are based on p...

In her admired works of fiction, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal ...

This Companion offers a compelling survey of American literature in the 1930s. These thirteen new essays by accomplished scholars in the field prov...

James Joyce's America is the first study to address the nature of Joyce's relation to the United States. It challenges the prevalent views of Joyce...

The nineteenth-century Hispanic world was shattered to its core by war, civil war, and revolution. At the same time, it confronted a new period of ...

Best known for her Kate Delafield detective series, Katherine V. Forrest is recognized as one of the preeminent figures in lesbian popular liter...

The late Ted Hughes felt that healing was the most fundamental characteristic of all poetry yet until now there has been no monograph on Hughes con...

This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscre...

Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson'...

Most famous for The Wilder Shores of Love, her book about four women travellers, Lesley Blanch was a scholarly romantic and a bold writer. Her lif...

This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature. As the author of some of ...

Adopting the term new death, which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James un...

The Artist and the Trinity' aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artist...