Literary Studies: General

'[A] fascinating new study builds a compelling case for the unique contribution of medieval and early modern girls to a number of cultural spheres...

Offering an insightful examination of Stephen Kings fiction, this book utilises a psychoanalytical approach drawing on Freuds theory of the uncanny...

With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. After...

Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian li...

In the early Middle Ages Naples underwent huge changes. She was able to acquire complete independence from the Byzantine Empire and to emerge as on...

This volume offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth-century writer and mathema...

Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswells ephemeral writing, his...

Ethics of Description: The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing follows the development of a minor tradition in French liter...

Digital Storytelling and Ethics: Collaborative Creation and Facilitation provides a method for analyzing digital storytelling practices that focuse...

Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the gutter in graphic narratives the gap between panels that a reader has to imagin...

Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernismwith a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outrig...

Samuel Johnsons life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendshipsand antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collec...

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Sovie...

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Childrens Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question Who speaks? by examining a variet...

This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian litera...

Since long before the age of celebrity activism, literary authors have used their public profiles and cultural capital to draw attention to a wide ...

Grief Memoirs: Cultural, Supportive, and Therapeutic Significance bridges literary studies and psychology to evaluate contemporary grief memoirs fo...

While globalization is often credited with the eradication of traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the I...

Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflec...

Literary Journalism Goes Inside Prison: Just Sentences opens up a new exploration of literary journalism immersive, long-form journalism so beauti...

By addressing the Western understanding of the status and nature of animals and the relation of animals to the question of life, this book provides...

Narrative Fiction and Death: Dying Imagined offers a new perspective on the study of death in literature. It focuses on narrative fiction that conv...

This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathys role in inte...

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for ec...