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Studies by notable literary critic and translator Alexander Stillmark comparing Hofmannsthal’s best works with Novalis, ......more

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Margaret Atwood is one of the most significant writers working today. Her writing spans seven decades, is phenomenally d......more

Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegori......more

This volume makes a powerful argument for epitome (combining textual dismembermentand re-composition) as a broad hermene......more

Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War inaugurates a new field of research in literary and Jewish studies at the in......more

The 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the no......more

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If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdeter......more

Eighteenth-century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, ’deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common for......more

Approaching translations of Tolkien’s works as stories in their own right, this book reads multiple Chinese translations......more

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Beyond her most famous creation--the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein’s Creature--Mary Shelley’s most enduring influen......more

Novel Competition describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999......more

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Through the Desert, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work ......more

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Mega-Dams in World Literature reveals the varied effects of large dams on people and their environments as expressed in ......more

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Otherworld women feature in a number of medieval Irish tales, but they are not always powerful figures. Indeed, those wh......more

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Exposes German Romanticism’s entanglements of aesthetic philosophy with racialized models of humanity Late Enlightenment......more

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The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and pra......more

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In an age of social media and reality television, reading and consumption habits in India now demand homegrown pulp fict......more

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The most up-to-date and unified study of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver In Understandin......more

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The bestselling, contemporary Swiss author Christian Kracht is as widely celebrated as he is a source of controversy. Th......more

Threny, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never for......more

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Nicole C. Dittmer offers a reimagining of the popular Gothic female "monster" figure in early-to-mid-Victorian literatur......more

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The French poetry of some five centuries is here surveyed in a series of studies of the work and personality of individu......more

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In her feminist polemic, ’A Room of One’s Own’, Virginia Woolf famously wrote of the (comparatively recent) literary tra......more

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This book explores and defends George Saunders’ causal thesis that successful stories are those that establish causation......more