Literature: History & Criticism

A collection of original essays establishing how wide the intellectual boundaries of narrative theory have becomeThe Edinburgh Companion to Contemp...

Integrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new...

Since the turn of the century, the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope has become a central figure in the critical understanding of Victorian liter...

Conspiracy theory in the Arab World has come to be associated with the rhetoric of Islamist extremists and authoritarian regimes. Yet its principle...

Charting an ''aesthetic'', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin''s art criticism in la...

Did you know that Ovid was a multifaceted icon of lovesickness, endless change, libertinism, emotional torment, and violence in early modern Englan...

Early Readers presents a number of innovative ways through which we might capture or infer traces of readers in cultures where most evidence has be...

A literary history of Arthur Conan Doyles work with the Strand Magazine in the twentieth century You know Arthur Conan Doyle as the stereotypically...

Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic reorients the debates around Arabic and global modernity in relation to psychoanalysis, capitalism and univer...

By connecting Fenian and anarchist violence found in popular fiction from the 1880s to the early 1900s with the avant-garde writing of British mode...

A collectionof articles and letters by Richard Jefferies on agriculture and social changeThis book brings together previously uncollected essays on...

How did Russian writers respond to linguistic debate in the post-Soviet period?Post-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instab...

The first sustained account of cheap series of reprints that transformed literary modernism from a little-read movement into a mainstream phenomeno...

During colonial times the Egyptian novel invoked a sovereign nation-state and basked in its perceived unity. After independence the novel began to ...

A transnational approach to Risorgimento culture's contentious and exhilarating nation-building enterpriseKey FeaturesRe-imagines the parameters an...

Bringing together internationally leading scholars whose work engages with the continued importance of literary experiment, this book takes up the ...

Charting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in ...

This study focuses on the close connections between literary value and the materiality of popular print artefacts in Britain from 1890-1930. The bo...

12 international specialists look at how cognition was attributed to brain, body or world in the long 18th century Revitalising our reading of 18th...

The Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications is traced from the medieval to the twenty-first century. From architecture, painting and scu...

A study of a key modernist form, its theory, practice and legacyWhat do we know today about the theatrical ferment caused by the scandalous group o...

The first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceThe first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceExplores Carver's r...

Reveals the secrets and stories that lie beneath the surface of Watson's narrativesThe Case of Sherlock Holmes uncovers what is untold, partly told...