Literary Studies: General

Reconsiders the relationship between the Great War and modernism through women''s literary representations of death Provides the first sustained...

This resource in contemporary Gothic literature, film and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the Gothic h...

Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independenc...

Common Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian London, worke...

What sorts of things do we think about when we're driving or being driven in a car? Drivetime seeks to answer this question by drawing upon a r...

Effervescent Adventures with Britannia is the latest addition to Wm Roger Louis's stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia. It d...

This title introduces Scotland's contribution to forms of traditional culture and expression. The 18 acknowledged experts introduce readers to impo...

New and original collection of scholarly essays examining the literary complexities of the Atlantic world system This Companion offers a critical o...

This book constitutes the most detailed and wide-ranging comparative study to date of how European literatures written in less well known languages...

Ruth el Saffar''s study of novelistic technique in Don Quixote focuses on the interplay of characters, authors, and readers who populate the work.

The Universal Jew analyzes literary images of the Jewish nation and the Jewish national subject at Zionism''s formative moment. In a series of orig...

During the interwar golden age of British detective fiction, women writers like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie reigned, but their work re...

Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner life and its ordinary pains. Francis OGorman charts the emergence...

In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and television have been on the increase. This has followed the increased use of such...

That's Raven Talk: Holophrastic Readings of Contemporary Indigenous Literatures is the first comprehensive study of North American Indigenous langu...

This explores the political and poetic understanding of the deconstruction of the 'animal question'. Re-examining how we relate to other animals ha...

This book explores the richness of women's contribution to Scottish literature. By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volu...

The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalyp...