Literature: History & Criticism

In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Re...

John Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex,to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his la...

African-language writing is in crisis. The conditions under which African writing developed in the past (only remotely similar to those of Western ...

By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in w...

This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first c...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Engaging, brilliant' Guardian'A talkative, tender meditation' Financial Times'Every novelist will want to ...

Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the ...

In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic c...

How do poems and novels create a sense of mind? What does literary criticism say in conversation with other disciplines that addresses problems of ...

A story that follows a simple trajectory is seldom worth telling. But the unexpected overturning of narrative progress creates complexity and in...

An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in t...

The grotesque in contemporary British fiction reveals the extent to which the grotesque endures as a dominant artistic mode in British fiction and ...

Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. An essential collection of texts reflecting ...

Examines representations of the law in colonial and postcolonial fiction from and about Nigeria Imagined States examines representations of the law...

In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of ...

Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings ...

A concise and authoritative survey of the Welsh- and English-language literatures of Wales from the earliest period up to the present day. This ill...

Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialis...

These 13 original essays engage with Rancire's accounts of literature from across his work, putting his conceptual apparatus to work in acts of lit...

Rural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much - if not more - than urban and suburb...

Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guid...

Poetica et Metrica 2.One of the most fascinating aspects of the poetics of multilingualism is that it reveals national literatures to be an outcome...

This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardners 1930 The Arthurian Legend in I...