Literary Theory

An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life-writing in English and French over the l...

Throughout the ages, vampires have transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety and nations. This collection examines the vampire as ...

This book focuses on the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities in modern and contemporary fiction. Drawing on recent theor...

This book uses the uniquely positioned culture of East African Asians to reflect upon the most vexing issues in postcolonial literary studies today...

Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 5/e presents the thirteen basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and critic...

We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters tha...

Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.' The Me...

Neo-Victorian writers invoke conflicting viewpoints in diaries, letters, etc. to creatively retrace the past in fragmentary and contradictory ways....

Literary Materialisms addresses what has become a fundamental concern in the last decade: how do we today define literary studies as an academic di...

Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as th...

It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglem...

Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book exa...

This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosop...

This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cogni...

Fictional narratives produced in Latin America often borrow tropes from contemporary science fiction to examine the shifts in the nature of power i...

By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal ...

Some of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on ...

Argues that Shakespeare is anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form of resistance to it, using sove...

Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions ...

This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, politic...

Examining work from Ford and Conrad's pre-war impressionism through Rhys's fiction of the late 1930s, the author shows how modernist innovation eng...

What is buried in the crypts of the Gothic? Building on psychoanalytic research on haunting, cryptonymy and melancholy, as well as on French philos...

Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as...

While much of the critical discussion about the emerging genre of 9/11 fiction has centred on the trauma of 9/11 and on novels by EuroAmerican writ...

It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, ...

Textual Imitation offers a new critique of the space between fiction and truth, poetry and philosophy. In a nimble, yet startlingly wide-ranging ar...

What role do objects play in realist narratives as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as g...

Using a cultural approach to classical myths, this book examines how they affect psychoanalytic theory, historical experience, elite culture, popul...

By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as ...

Through a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluates the role of the past in recent America...

Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, Metahistory, in 197...

Modernism is fundamentally determined by its relationship to its own notions of style: oscillating between the poles of 'pure' style and 'purely' s...

Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting ...

After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the cha...

Through a close analysis of the pamphlets, reviews, lectures, journalism, editorials, poems, and novels surrounding the introduction of the gold st...

This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T...