Literary Theory

This book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning parapher...

Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures ...

Theory of Mind and Science Fiction shows how theory of mind provides an exciting 'new' way to think about science fiction and, conversely, how scie...

In How We Write Now Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to stay close to the fields ce...

In How We Write Now Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to stay close to the fields ce...

Vibratory Modernism is a collection of original essays that show how vibrations provide a means of bridging science and art - two fields that becam...

This new study argues that modernist literature is characterised by a 'multilingual turn'. Examining the use of different languages in the fiction ...

Bringing together scholars who have critically followed New Formalism's journey through time, space, and learning environment, this collection of e...

Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between A...

The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the pu...

There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes.--a civic leader quoted in a New American Libr...

A collection of some of Pearce's best-known essays on historical criticism in which he suggests a way of going beyond positivist historiography and...

This book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a work of imaginative literature, and applies modern techniques of criticism to his writing...

Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination For Pleasure proposes that experim...

Why is it that children from disadvantaged backgrounds find it so difficult and often impossible to achieve? Few questions are of such fundamenta...

We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in the universality ...

Faulkner said that Life is motion and that The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so tha...

Professor Moynahan's object in this illuminating, critical survey has been to consider Lawrence entirely in his most important role...as the author...

A collection of essays on the 1960s experimental writer B.S. Johnson, this book draws together new research on all aspects of his work, and, in tra...

The renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in Anna Karenina (1878). In the same work, moreover, he utilized allegory a...

Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11 asks whether post-9/11 America has chosen the 'wrong side of paradise' by waging war on terror rath...

Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature...

Gary Saul Morsons ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on prosaics (...

The renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy created a realistic masterpiece in Anna Karenina (1878). In the same work, moreover, he utilized allegory a...

Provocative essays from one of America's most important cultural criticsThink Again gathers one hundred of the best of Stanley Fish's provocative N...

This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the inner life. Cas...

Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century....

The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activ...

This far-ranging study develops Morsons concept of prosaics, which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novels unique ability to port...

Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie's work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theor...

The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poemand what they reveal about the history of reading and the future o...

Through an examination of Tennyson's 'domestic poetry' - his portrayals of England and the English - in their changing nineteenth-century context, ...

How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world an art text? This book...

How can one make state administrative systems interesting, embody an abstract public ethos and give heroism to homogeneity? The discipline of liter...