Literary studies: general books

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This work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist...  Read More >>

Byronism, Napoleonism and Nineteenth-Century Realism offers a fresh analysis of the nineteenth-century European...  Read More >>

"Plank’s study makes the case that reading fiction matters, that reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is...  Read More >>

This book offers its readers a scholarly examination of Sontag's essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetics....  Read More >>

This book discusses how early modern legal and medical definitions of intellectual disability influenced the characterisation...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Visions of Race: British Travel Writing about America concerns the depiction of racial Others...  Read More >>

Through new readings of Shelley’s verse, this book engages with the affective, phenomenological and ethical dimensions...  Read More >>

Publishing its nineteenth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare...  Read More >>

This collection showcases fresh perspectives on translation in a global context, drawing on case studies from Montreal...  Read More >>

Only a highly comparative study of medieval literature can help us to comprehend how much fundamental ideas and...  Read More >>

This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading,...  Read More >>

This monograph compares the ways in which literary works and films reflect on and critique the power relations and...  Read More >>

This study examines the transmission and compilation of poetic texts through manuscripts from the late-Elizabethan...  Read More >>

This book brings together a range of works exploring the evolution of cannibalism, literally and metaphorically,...  Read More >>

This book provides a novel account of how heteronormative socio-legal orders affect the well-being, or quality of...  Read More >>

This edited collection applies kinship as an analytical concept to better understand the affective economies, discursive...  Read More >>

This book investigates the origins of figurative language in literary discourse within a cognitive framework. It...  Read More >>

This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa....  Read More >>

This book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial world in novels, short stories, plays, and...  Read More >>

This lively collection, the first of its kind, maps out and analyses the diverse representation of plants in children’s...  Read More >>

This book explores how transnational fiction can intervene in discourse surrounding the ‘war on terror’ to advocate...  Read More >>

While speculation has always been crucial to biography, it has often been neglected, denied or misunderstood. This...  Read More >>