Literature: History & Criticism

From the perspective of Irish Studies, this book seeks to interrogate the discourses and processes that produce and reproduce «Irelands cultural po...

The book deals diachronically with Irish crime fiction, from the picaresque of the 17th century up to the late 1990s when the «Emerald Noir» boom b...

«This sophisticated and empathetic study explores a suite of important Australian literary works from the Chinese diaspora. Using memory studies to...

In late October 2017, the profoundly sad news of Ross Chamberss passing reached Australia. Friends and colleagues scattered around the globe mourne...

Over the centuries, drama has been an influential and imaginative medium for presenting, analysing and offering ways of resolving real or fictional...

Over the centuries, drama has been an influential and imaginative medium for presenting, analysing and offering ways of resolving real or fictional...

What only a few decades ago would have been considered a totalitarian nightmare seems to have become reality: Surveillance practices and technologi...

Writing Travel investigates the ways in which two major Latin American authors, Roberto Bolaño and Juan José Saer, engage with travel and space in ...

Women Writing War focuses on the life-writing of the moudjahidate, the women veterans of the Algerian war of independence (19541962). The author of...

Women Writing War focuses on the life-writing of the moudjahidate, the women veterans of the Algerian war of independence (19541962). The author of...

Irelands Great Famine generated Western Europes most devastating social crisis of the nineteenth century, a crisis that created enormous and transf...

Irelands Great Famine generated Western Europes most devastating social crisis of the nineteenth century, a crisis that created enormous and transf...

Violent Disruptions examines two authors who have powerfully predicted the formation of racial identities and its surrounding discourse in the Unit...

The book offers eight case studies, covering selected problems and works from Renaissance up to the present day. Each chapter draws on a literary t...

The Works of James Melville presents both published and unpublished prose and poetry by Scottish divine James Melville (15561614). James Melville h...

The Works of James Melville presents both published and unpublished prose and poetry by Scottish divine James Melville (15561614). James Melville h...

Human imagination is saturated with monsters. They represent, in a number of ways, those that have been historically perceived as strangers to the ...

Human imagination is saturated with monsters. They represent, in a number of ways, those that have been historically perceived as strangers to the ...