Literary Studies: from c 1900

The Ireland of Ulysses was still a part of Britain. This book is the first comprehensive, historical study of Joyce's great novel in the context of...

As well as being the author of the greatest of all children's plays, Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie also wrote sophisticated social comedy and political s...

This volume is designed to further the study of Spanish culture in the broad sense of the network of symbolic systems through which social groups c...

Defining narrativity as the enabling force of narrative, this is the first full-length exploration of the concept in fiction in English. It develo...

Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global lite...

The rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937 but subsequently out of print for decades, marks one ...

Modern Greece, constructed by the early nineteenth-century ideals and ideas associated with Byron, has been "haunted, holy ground" in English and A...

This book makes a powerful and somtimes contentious contribution to current debates in gender, feminist, and queer theory. Tracing the hydraulic im...

The revolution in literary form and aesthetic consciousness called modernism arose as the physical sciences were revising their most fundamental co...

These volumes present the works of eleven poets writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Volume 1 contains work by Mary E. Tucker Lambert and ...

This book examines the profound effect, on a major critic and novelist of the twentieth century, of the period of English literature's greatest glo...

The Oxford Slavonic Papers contain original contributions and documents relating to the languages, literatures, culture, and history of Russia and ...

February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afte...

The historical and cultural space of the Black Atlantic - a diasporic world of forced and voluntary migrations - has long provided fertile ground f...

This is the first volume in a new series on the work of the poet W. H. Auden. The volume contains a large amount of Unpublished material by Auden, ...

In over thirty interviews ranging from 1982 until 2022, Conversations with Orhan Pamuk reveals a writer of intense literary and political engagemen...

The Soft Machine, originally published in 1985, represents a significant contribution to the study of contemporary literature in the larger cultura...

Perfect for anyone who harbours a love of the sea or simply of mystery stories, this is an intriguing new selection of tales in which crimes and th...

This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif...

This study engages with the troubled question of authorial subjectivity and ethics in Modernism in general and in Conrad's short fiction in particu...

This book makes a radical break with earlier interpretations of Bakhtin's work. Using recent Russian scholarship, Ken Hirschkop explodes many of th...

This is a readable introduction to the poetry and fiction published in Greek since national independence in 1821. It is the first full-length study...

News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 is a powerful account of how civilian poets confront the urgent problem of writing about war. The six poets ...

Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America examines the idealisation of Asian America by its intellectuals, the saturation of As...