Recent developments in literary modernism have turned towards the archive to study the process of how literary narrative......more

William Harrison Ainsworth was a best-selling 19th-century historical novelist whose tales of highwaymen captivated read......more

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The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies......more

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A critical edition of Guglielmo Sirleto’s unpublished letters is still missing. The partial transcriptions of this large......more

The handbook will be the first of its kind worldwide - and in contrast to, and clearly delimited from, The Routledge Com......more

A critical edition of Guglielmo Sirleto’s unpublished letters is still missing. The partial transcriptions of this large......more

Lovers of Tolkien’s works know well his penchant for including song lyrics and verse in his prose. This book offers a th......more

In the medieval and early modern periods, dreams were seen as having the potential to grant a glimpse of what was unknow......more

Interdisciplinarity has gained increasing prominence as a general guiding principle for innovative research over the pas......more

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The first deep dive into the afterlives of Jonathan Swift’s enduring Gulliver’s Travels in literature and culture, this ......more

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In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectiv......more

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent ......more

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening......more

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry offers an authoritative and comprehensive engagement with poetries that range......more

Offering a methodology for identifying particularly impactful literary narratives of climate change, this open access bo......more

Showcasing the most exciting contemporary scholarship on D. H. Lawrence, this comprehensive collection serves as both an......more

This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from t......more

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of ......more

An exploration into the development of the literary advice industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this book......more

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The evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song, traced over 1,400 years Stories about Fionn macCumhaill (also k......more

Renaissance humanism was a broad intellectual and cultural movement, which contributed significantly to the development ......more

"Entangled Displacements" offers a new way of exploring medieval cultures through the refugees they create. The book exa......more

In the classroom, students training in medieval studies require fundamental soft skills to make sense of and use informa......more

Drawing on literature, legal texts, and archival materials, The Ambassador and the Courtesan offers a comparative analys......more

Focusing on a category of poems from the Modernist and contemporary periods which give agency to nonhuman beings and tex......more

Lively, adventurous and comprehensive, this book offers a fascinating account of the contemporary culture of pedestriani......more

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From Peter Rabbit to Mrs Tiggywinkle, the Tailor of Gloucester to The Fairy Caravan, the works and characters of Beatrix......more

The first in-depth study of Gillian Clarke’s work in the twenty-first century, reframing our understanding of her poetry......more

Quixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to British women’s profession......more

Studies of the eighteenth-century periodical have long tended to understand the form according to the period’s own insis......more

Studies of the eighteenth-century periodical have long tended to understand the form according to the period’s own insis......more

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A stunningly visual celebration of Annie Ernaux’s work--featuring collected......more

The first book to investigate, analyze and theorize the creative processes of literary writers, Creativity and Contingen......more

The Second World War is now recognized as a watershed for British poetry. The changes that arose were masked for some ti......more

In this major new study, James Aaron Green provides the first account of literary thought experiments published from 187......more

Illusive Materialisms brings a close attention to gender to bear on the philosophical and political argument that sensua......more

Illusive Materialisms brings a close attention to gender to bear on the philosophical and political argument that sensua......more

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Dr Helen Beer is Lecturer in Yiddish.at UCL and Departmental Tutor. She is also Tutor in Yiddish at Oxford University De......more

It is the few, but brilliant, political writings of his English career - including the collection of five pamphlets feat......more

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A rigorous exploration of literature as a tool for social change, revealing how gender and national identity intertwine ......more

Derick Thomson was one of the most influential personalities of Gaelic Scotland in the twentieth century. His poetry cou......more

Aphra Behn’s career in the Restoration theatre extended over nearly two full decades, and encompassed a remarkable gener......more

The governing questions of Milton and the Network of Disability, Embodiment and Care are threefold: What does reading Mi......more

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From the bodies rotting by the wayside in Famine fiction, Synge’s sodden corpses and Joyce’s dead, to Nuala Ní Dhomhnail......more

Metafictionality has become the cornerstone of the stylistic zeitgeist of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the tw......more

This book offers an original reinterpretation of the literary history of British socialism in the long twentieth century......more

The long nineteenth century was marked by a combination of political upheaval, technological transformation, and revolut......more

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A careful investigation into the history and meaning of reading, Unprinted dives into the rich culture of unprinted manu......more

The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early Modern Spain investigates novel and transformative ways in which wri......more

Sneaking into Print: Mouvance and Narrative Culture in Spain c. 1500 explores the impact of early printing on narrative ......more

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The fox is cunning, the lion is brave. These familiar ideas span back to the medieval bestiary - short, animal-centred t......more

This book examines the technological and scientific imagery in Cervantes’s novel, Don Quixote, and the ways in which the......more

Allegories of Format examines the significance of format to the literary oeuvre of the nineteenth-century Swiss author, ......more

Reconfiguring our understanding of early modern English erotic and literary landscapes Rejecting the ideals of stability......more

Reconfiguring our understanding of early modern English erotic and literary landscapes Rejecting the ideals of stability......more

Johann Gottfried Herder did not himself use the term "naturalism", which only appears in the later nineteenth century, b......more