Literary Theory

One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this i...

What does it mean to write in and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these...

This book considers how 'affect', the experience of feeling or emotion, has developed as a critical concept within literary studies in different pe...

Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the f...

This volume examines food as subject, form, landscape, polemic, and aesthetic statement in literature. With essays analyzing food and race, queer f...

The challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case fo...

A highly interdisciplinary overview of the wide spectrum of current international research and professional practice in intercultural communication...

Marked by names such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Patrick Pearse, the decade 19101920 was a period of revolutionary change in Ireland, in litera...

This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgend...

Orientalism and Literature discusses a key critical concept in literary studies and how it assists our reading of literature. It reviews the concep...

The tragedy Rhesus has come down to us among the plays of Euripides but was probably the work either of fourth-century BC actors or producers heavi...

Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been cent...

This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Nunes' approach to the...

An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and t...

These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative literature, strengtheni...

The impact of malaria on humankind has been profound. Focusing on depictions of this iconic 'disease of empire' in nineteenth-century and postcolon...

In the nineteenth century, literary criticism first developed into an autonomous, professional discipline in the universities. This volume provides...

Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been cent...

In A Global History of Literature and the Environment, an international group of scholars illustrate the immense riches of environmental writing fr...

The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch marking humanity's alteration of the Earth: its rock structure, environments, atmosphere. The Cambr...