Literary Theory

Winner of the 2020 European Walter Benjamin Prize, The Revolution is the Emergency Break is a rich discussion of Walter Benjamins lesser-known writ...

New York City's streets, parks, museums, architecture, and its people appear in an array of literary works published from New York's earliest settl...

This resounding defence of the principles of free expression revisits the Satanic Verses uproar of 1989, as well as subsequent incidents such as th...

This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europ...

Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman...

Winner, PROSE Award, Classics, Association of American Publishers (AAP), 2018Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Od...

WINNER, SLSA SOCIO-LEGAL THEORY AND HISTORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED, THE HART-SLSA BOOK PRIZE Spectacles and Specters draws on theories of performativity...

Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work. It demonstrates the sus...

This book explores the way older women are represented in society. Through close readings of novels by major 20th century novelists, compared with ...

Offers new insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on a wide range of international picture books for children published between 19...

The idea of Utopia has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the pres...

This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 20...

This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between...

This book focuses on the role of the city, and its processes of mutual transformation, in poetry by experimental women writers. Readings of their w...