Literature: History & Criticism

Provides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first centuryThis groundbreaking collection captures the state...

Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction provides an accessible, concise and reliable overview of core critical terminology, key theoretical ap...

The first extensive analysis of the translation, publication and critical reception of Alexander von Humboldt's writings in nineteenth-century Brit...

This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ranging across te...

The Labour of Laziness in Twentieth-Century American Literature focuses on the issue of productivity, using the figure of laziness to negotiate the...

This is an in-depth, original survey of religion in the modern Arabic novel. Tracing the relationship from the genesis of the form in the early 20t...

A wide-ranging study of shifting temporalities and their literary consequences in twentieth-century fictionFrom the Prime Meridian Conference of 18...

Argues that Gertrude Stein's gender can best be described as 'transmasculine'This thoughtful and sophisticated book views Gertrude Stein's life and...

Examines European Union's neocolonial sovereignty in cultural narratives of migrationUncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the Ne...

This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish contex...

The Selected Works Of Andrew Lang Volume 2: Literary Criticism, History, Biography Edited by Andrew Teverson, Alexandra Warwick and Leigh Wilson...

New essays and creative explorations of the friendship, milieu and writings of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf'I love to think of you, Virgi...

The Selected Works of Andrew Lang: Volume 1 Anthropology: Fairy Tale, Folklore, the Origins of Religion, Psychical Research Edited by Andrew Tever...

Examines the cultural importance of the coastline in the nineteenth-century British imaginationThe long nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic, va...

Charts the origins and development of the little magazine genre in the Victorian periodFed up with the commercial and moral restrictions of the mai...

As editor of the Dial, Moore wielded considerable cultural authority in the world of arts and letters, yet cultural histories of modernist magazine...

Explores the interaction between science, literature and spectacle in Shakespeare's eraTo the readers who ask themselves: 'What is science?', this ...

Explores Byron as the figurehead of Romanticism and the writer of provocatively 'marginal' textsThis book approaches Byron from a completely new an...

Examines the representation of landscape in the poetry of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Robin Robertson and Kenneth WhiteProvides an interdiscipli...

The first in-depth analysis of Lydia Davis's translations and writing'The Many Voices of Lydia Davis' shows how translation, rewriting and intertex...

Reveals the diverse ways that cognition was seen as spread over brain, body and world in the 9-17th centuries This collection brings together 14 es...

This book is for teachers who want to heighten the intellectual impact of their courses by using their classrooms as a creative space for social fo...

To the readers who ask themselves: 'What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included su...

Maps out how new developments in 21st-century philosophy intersect with the study of literature This forward-thinking, non-traditional reference wo...