Literary Theory

British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 brings together for the first time a wide range of print and manuscript sources to demonstrate women's inno...

Despite pioneering studies, the term 'romance novel' itself has not been subjected to scrutiny. This book examines mass-market romance fiction in t...

Literature after Postmodernism explores the use of literary fantastic storylines in contemporary novels which begin to think beyond postmodernism. ...

Known as the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge's manuscripts, letters, and other writings reveal an original thinker in dialogue ...

This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. ...

Who owns, who buys, who gives, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing, placing characters socially and characterizing th...

An introduction to Ezra Pound's work. Alexander shows how he contributed to the modernist movement through his own writing as well as through his i...

Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach to understanding mater...

These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dial...

Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay Britis...

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think and I cant stop myself from thinking. Jean-Paul Sartre, NauseaWriting the Min...

Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in relig...

What happens to books as they live in our long-term memory? Why do we find some books entertaining and others not? And how does literary influence ...

Translations Forgotten History investigates the meanings and functions that translation generated for modern national literatures during their form...

Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteu...

This is the first book in English to explore in detail the genesis and consequences of Lacan's concept of the 'Real', providing readers with an inv...

By reading key Carter texts alongside their Decadent intertexts, Tonkin interrogates the claim that Carter was in thrall to a fetishistic aesthetic...

Aufgrund der anhaltenden Fluchtbewegungen fordert Aleida Assmann zur Umstrukturierung national ausgerichteter Erinnerungskulturen auf, damit Flücht...

What do ancient Greece and Rome have to do with New Zealand? More than you might think. Athens to Aotearoa collects essays from some of New Zealand...

This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gende...

This interdisciplinary study analyzes the ways in which signs of masculinity have been performed across a wide variety of contexts and genres - inc...

While the gender and age of the girl may seem to remove her from any significant contribution to empire, this book provides both a new perspective ...

Critical theory and dystopia offers a uniquely rich study of dystopian fiction, drawing on the insights of critical theory. Asking what ideological...

Zoopoetics assumes Aristotle was right. The general origin of poetry resides, in part, in the instinct to imitate. But it is an innovative imitatio...