Literary Studies: General

Branding the Beur Author focuses on the mainstream media promotion of literature written by the descendants of North African immigrants to France (...

In France, the fundamental intellectual debate over ecology might best be summarized by the contrasting views of Michel Serres and Luc Ferry. In Th...

Dangerous Creole Liaisons explores a French Caribbean context to broaden discussions of sexuality, nation building, and colonialism in the Americas...

In the wake of the Second World War, ideas of Europe abounded. What did Europe mean as a concept, and what did it mean to be European? Europeanisin...

Lawrence's autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers was written in four drafts between August 1910 and November 1912. During that period Lawrence's m...

This book considers the differing emotional investments in Israel of, on the one hand, Jews physically domiciled in Israel and, on the other hand, ...

Can literature heal? The Poetics of Palliation argues that our answers to this question have origins in the Romantic period. In the past twenty yea...

Being Contemporary is a volume of original essays by 23 preeminent scholars of French and Comparative literature, hailing from both sides of the At...

African American literature in the years between 1800 and 1830 emerged from significant transitions in the cultural, technological, and political c...

Hybridity theory, the creative dissemination and restless to-and-fro of Homi Bhabhas Third Space or of Stuart Halls politics of difference, for exa...

Caribbean Globalizations explores the relations between globalization and the Caribbean since 1492, when Columbus first arrived in the region, to t...

Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction offers a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about crime fiction. It seeks ...

Pacifist Invasions is about what happens to the francophone lyric in the translingual Franco-Arabic context. Drawing on lyric theory, comparative p...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Articulating Bodies inve...

Peu d'études se sont attardées sur la dimension matérialiste de la pensée de J-J. Rousseau. si ce n'est que pour s'en tenir largement à l'analyse d...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Who ever thought they would one ...

This volume brings together a variety of studies, some reprinted, some new; all are devoted to the literate culture of the English later Middle Age...

The formulation egalitarian strangeness is a direct borrowing from Courts voyages au pays du peuple [Short Voyages to the Land of the People] (1990...

Labbé de Saint-Pierre, connu pour son Projet de paix perpétuelle, a laissé un ensemble bien plus vaste et cohérent décrits politiques et moraux jus...

During the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and priva...

This book covers the full range and diversity of Chilean literature from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. By emphasizing transnati...

William Gilbert, poet, theosophist and astrologer, published The Hurricane: A Theosophical and Western Eclogue in Bristol in 1796, while he was on ...

Contrary to what Simone de Beauvoir famously argued in 1949, men have not lived without knowing the burdens of their sex. Though men may have been ...

In the aftermath of the efflorescence of experimental literature and theory that characterized the Trente Glorieuses (1945-75), contemporary French...