Literary Studies: from c 1900

L. Frank Baum's novel, The Wizard of Oz, has spawned 39 official sequels, over 100 unofficial sequels, well nearly 40 films, several TV series, mus...

Dr. Mood's study returns Joyce's masterwork to the reader (and to accessibility) by a coupling of essential narrative themes that are humorous, sex...

This historical and biographical text explores the numerous up-and-down stages of Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway's friendship, one of the m...

Thomas Manns novel The Magic Mountain presents a panorama of European society in the first two decades of the 20th century and depicts the philosop...

The American war in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of...

Part comedy, part thriller, part social critique, The Granny and the Heist (La estanquera de Vallecas) is the play with which José Luis Alonso de S...

This exciting exploration of Stephen Kings digital writing maneuvers and electronic ventures on online platforms and e-readers unravels the authors...

This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since...

From 1890 to 1960, some of Anglo-Americas most heated cultural contests over books, sex, and censorship were staged not at home, but abroad in the ...

For at least a century, scholarship on realist narrative, and occasional polemics against realist narrative, have assumed that realism promotes the...

This book is the first collected volume to be entirely dedicated to the work of contemporary Anglo-American writer Patrick McGrath. It follows the ...

This study is about experimental forms of cultural production that situate and work through personal experiences of the civil war in Lebanon. It ad...

A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR At last an expert classicist gets to grips wi...

'I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years.' Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life an...

Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017'Against anything I had ever been told w...

The publishers of Ulysses by James Joyce were brought to trial and convicted of obscenity in the USA in 1921. The immortal prose, ultimately recogn...

Although Beckett scholarship has in recent decades experienced a renaissance as a result of various poststructuralist approaches that tend to empha...

Since its origin, American literature has always had an uneasy relationship with science: born at a time when science was becoming a profession, it...

Whereas literary criticism has mainly oscillated between the death of the author (Barthes) and the return of the author (Couturier), this work sugg...

'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .'So begins the first letter that a nine-...

The story of a forbidden book that became a symbol of freedom and rebellion in the battle between East and West.1956. Boris Pasternak presses a man...

Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th cen...

From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a wr...

Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. In fact, he set out deliberately to write c...

According to Oscar Wilde, the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often un...

Factual Fictions: Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel focuses on contemporary American documentary narratives, specific...