Literary Studies: from c 1900

Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel charts how novelists imagined changing forms of citizenship in twentieth-century Brit...

The notion that violence can give rise to art - and that art can serve as an agent of violence - is a dominant feature of modernist literature. In ...

This book is grounded in a theorization of the author's personal story including growing up as a female adoptee of a single parent in a patriarchal...

Speculative fiction often shows the complicated and rather fraught history of medicine as it relates to black women. Through prominent writers like...

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States emerged as the dominant imperial power, and in US popular memory, the Second World War is remem...

There was no native tradition of theatre in Irish. Thus, language revivalists were forced to develop the genre ex nihilo if there was to be a Gaeli...

One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this i...

What does it mean to write in and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these...

This book considers how 'affect', the experience of feeling or emotion, has developed as a critical concept within literary studies in different pe...

Jorge Luis Borges (18991986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which h...

This fourth and final volume, which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final twenty-four years of what wa...

This third volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett focuses on the years when Beckett is striving to find a balance between the demands put upon him...

Katherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examines how she developed as a ...

Set in the South of France during the waning days of the French Revolution and the early years of Napoleonic rule, The Rover (1923) is the last nov...

For nearly a decade, writers' collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite , the Ugandan women writers' association, have dramatically resh...

A History of Irish Modernism examines a wide variety of artworks (from the 1890s to the 1970s), including examples from literature, film, painting,...

In the years of and around the First World War, American poets, fiction writers, and dramatists came to the forefront of the international movement...

What was the modernist response to the global crisis of liberal world order after 1919? This book tells the story of the origins of liberal world g...

The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclai...

This eighteenth and final volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a variorum edition of The Great Gatsby (1925), the...

This volume explores the history of Irish writing between the Second World War (or the 'Emergency') in 1939 and the re-emergence of violence in Nor...

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continu...

Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the f...

Henry James left America in 1875 for the sake of his art and for the rich cultural heritage of Europe. His return in the late summer of 1904, based...