Literary Theory

This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway ...

This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity and class relations that were ex...

This collection of essays is dedicated to examining the recent literary phenomenon of the 'neo-historical' novel, a sub-genre of contemporary histo...

Romantic Englishness investigates how narratives of localised selfhood in English Romantic writing are produced in relation to national and transna...

Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market delves into the influences and pressures of the marketplace on this genre, which this volu...

Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete know...

Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines contemporary British literature an...

Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays...

A study of London suburban-set writing, exploring the links between place and fiction. This book charts a picture of evolving themes and concerns a...

This interdisciplinary project draws on a wealth of sources (visual, material, literary and theatrical) to examine Austen's depiction of female per...

Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great period of maritime commerce, explo...

The first in-depth account of fictional sequels in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this examines cases of prose fiction works being conti...

Approaching the question of how male novelists perceive their female characters, this collection of creative yet analytic literary essays unwinds t...

Geo-spatial identity and early Modern European drama come together in this study of how cultural or political attachments are actively mediated thr...

Confronted with apartheid, dictatorship or the sheer scale of global economics, realism can no longer function with the certainties of the nineteen...

Examining poetry by Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, and Amiri Baraka, among others, this book shows that leading US poets since 1979 have performed t...

The Creative Writing Compass presents a dynamic navigational instrument for creative writers and those learning to be creative writers, providing a...

The Creative Writing Compass presents a dynamic navigational instrument for creative writers and those learning to be creative writers, providing a...

The Landscapes of the Sublime examines the place of the 'natural sublime' in the cultural history of the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Dr...

Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the perv...

Examining the work of the Elizabethan playwright, Robert Greene, this book argues that Greene's plays are innovative in their use of spectacle. Its...

Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through ...

Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Jo...

In reading Banville's novels through the work of key psychoanalytical theorists, John Banville's Narcissistic Fictions brings together apparently d...

Why does interrogation silence its object and not make it speak? Silence vs speech is a central issue in classical and modern literary works. This ...

This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond...

Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester, in romance fiction from Wut...

This book is an exploration of the phenomenon of horror from an unusual angle. Focusing on reading specific examples of literature from Romanticism...

Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. ...

Nabokov gained international fame with Lolita, a highly erotic and morally disturbing novel. Through its comprehensive study of the amorous and sex...

Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America considers American minority literatures from the perspective of print culture. Putting in dialogue Europe...

This book offers a unique analysis of the wide-ranging responses of British novelists to the East-West conflict. Hammond analyses the treatment of ...

Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct soci...

This book reveals fundamental connections between nationalist violence, religious identity, and the origins of the novel in the early modern period...

Focusing on British novels about the Muslim immigrant experience published after 9/11; this book examines the promise as well as the limits of 'Bri...

This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, t...