This essential collection examines South and Southeast Asian Muslim women’s writing and the ways they navigate cultural,......more
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From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of "fan nonfiction" about living and writing in the age of exti......more
A riveting history of how southern women writers negotiated authorial control in the late nineteenth- through early twen......more
A riveting history of how southern women writers negotiated authorial control in the late nineteenth- through early twen......more
This study takes up Woolf’s challenge to probe the relationship between education and work, specifically her education a......more
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Examines how contemporary US migrant women’s life writing adapts autobiographical genres to call for social change benef......more
(P)rescription Narratives reveals how the act of narrative creates the subjects of disability, race, and gender during a......more
Examines traditional sites of binary thinking in ancient Greek texts and culture to demonstrate surprising ambiguity, es......more
This volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While Wide Sargasso S......more
Challenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and heritage into ......more
This ground-breaking nineteenth-century volume is of considerable scholarly interest as an example of a femino-centric p......more
Sylvia Plath is one of the most widely recognised and inspiring poets of the 20th century. With chapters written by more......more
Exploring a variety of environmental concerns and surveying a wide range of contemporary poetry, fiction, and memoir by ......more
This book is committed to women as writers and storytellers; all the selected novels are female-centric in that the main......more
Inexplicably, William S. Burroughs has not been embraced by the LGBTQI community as one of our own, even though his quee......more
Inexplicably, William S. Burroughs has not been embraced by the LGBTQI community as one of our own, even though his quee......more
This monograph examines three aesthetic emotions in lfric’s Lives of Saints. Drawing on recent research on emotional com......more
In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writin......more
The idea of freedom, changed and contested throughout the ages, has become the staple of liberal democracies and a beaco......more
Contributions by Cécile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadè......more
Contributions by Cécile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadè......more
Contributions by Christina M. Chica, Kathryn Coto, Sarah Park Dahlen, Preethi Gorecki, Tolonda Henderson, Marcia Hernand......more
Contributions by Christina M. Chica, Kathryn Coto, Sarah Park Dahlen, Preethi Gorecki, Tolonda Henderson, Marcia Hernand......more
This book explores how women writers create and question men and masculinity. As men have written women so have women wr......more
This volume delves into the literary lives of four Muslim women in pre-modern India. Three of them, Gulbadan Begam (1523......more
Centering on the difficult and important subject of medieval rape culture, this book brings Middle English and Scots tex......more
Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped......more
This book explores the connections that José Joaquín de Mora (1783-1864) established with Britain, where he was exiled f......more
Although L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is best remembered for the twenty-two book-length works of fiction that she publish......more
’Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature’ explores the claustrophobic shadow of discrimination hangi......more
This work provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: Why did popul......more
The Untold Story of Lesbian Love in Japanese Anime and Comics This landmark work is an accessible, educational, and exci......more
This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the "wordless novels" of American woodcut artist and illustrato......more
Embodiment, Expertise, and Ethics in Early Modern Europe highlights the agency and intentionality of individuals and gro......more
Feminist theory has enhanced and expanded the agency, influence, status and contributions of women throughout the globe.......more
Reconsiders the relationship between the Great War and modernism through women’s literary representations of death Provi......more
In an effort to expand its readership and increase support for its pan-Arab project, the Iraqi Ba’th almost completely e......more
The rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultur......more
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner National Bestseller Lambda Literary Award Finalist NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS......more
This collection asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point t......more
Women of the 1920s led a revolt against the old standards of womanhood that were dominating US culture. Flappers and fem......more
Located within the field of environmental humanities, this volume engages with one of the most pressing contemporary env......more
Located within the field of environmental humanities, this volume engages with one of the most pressing contemporary env......more
This book constitutes a feminist literary analysis of motherhood as presented in selected Indian women’s fictions across......more
Why is the poetic mode of elegy so often understood as the domain of white, wealthy male poets? What possibilities and l......more
Throughout her fiction, Willa Cather mentioned forty-seven operas. References to opera appear in all but three of her tw......more
This book offers a matrixial, feminist-centered analysis of trauma and performance, through examining the work of three ......more
Stein’s modernist fascination with life connects her writing to late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers. This bo......more
Consigned to oblivion by the Franco regime and traditional historiography, the Other Silver Age Spain (1868-1939) encomp......more
The book looks at ways of world-building in prose fictions of cosmic voyage in the seventeenth century. With the rise of......more
The primary objective of this study is to propose a comparative analysis of the political TV interview with reference to......more
In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 En......more
In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 En......more
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During the July Monarchy (1830‒1848), French writers such as Balzac, Gautier and Sand depicted characters who did not co......more
First published in 1981, this concordance can afford particular benefits to the critic and textual scholar because of se......more
Originally published in 1982, this volume follows others in the series. By looking at the word frequency table, the user......more
Originally published in 1979, this concordance consists of a Verbal Index listing the location of all words used by Conr......more
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Originally published in 1984, this volume follows others in the series. By looking up a word in the word frequency table......more
This book considers the political and feminist significance of non-canonical women poets, particularly those who were wr......more
"To be someone--to be anyone--is about...not being someone else. Miller’s amused and inspired book is utterly compelling......more
Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women’s Writing reexamines the relationship between gender and form in early modern ......more
Sylvia Townsend Warner has increasingly become recognized as a significant and distinctive talent amongst twentieth-cent......more
Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists provides a chronological investigati......more
This feminist investigation of the works of Clemence Dane joins the growing body of research into the relationship of fe......more
This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue. Race and Romance: Coloring the Past explores......more
Ian McEwan once said, ’When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.’ This book explains how precious fiction is to c......more
The Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changi......more
This book examines novels of Faulkner and Morrison as well as Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison in order to show that their w......more
"Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From the poignant schoolgirl ......more
"The thrill of quiet adventure. The constant hope of discovery. The reminder that the world is filled with wonder. When ......more
Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears reveals under-acknowledged nineteenth-century legacies which shaped Woolf as a wr......more
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fa......more
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion shows how the "affective turn" in the humanities applies to literary s......more
This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue. Race and Romance: Coloring the Past explores......more
*Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023 ** Anita Pati’s debut collection, *Hiding to Nothing, explores the destabilising ......more
Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023 Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022 A PBS Recommendation Summer 2022 In her d......more
Offers a new framework for understanding Du Bois’s poetics and politics, including the concept of double consciousness, ......more
Traces literary and social connections among three American women navigating the changing political landscape of 1860s a......more
Worldwide Women Writers in Paris examines a new literary phenomenon consisting of an unprecedented number of women from ......more
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how the......more
The Kindertransport, a rescue operation during the Second World War, is the subject of this study of memoirs and autobio......more
This new book provides a significant introduction and critical survey of the diverse works of Kate O’Brien (1897 - 1974)......more
This new book provides a significant introduction and critical survey of the diverse works of Kate O’Brien (1897 - 1974)......more
This book interrogates the concept of the subject in the poem, against the broader background of literary-theoretical is......more
The French literary collective OuLiPo was founded in 1960 with the goal of applying mathematics to literary creation. Th......more
Conversion disorder--a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestat......more
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This volume delves into the literary lives of four Muslim women in pre-modern India. Three of them, Gulbadan Begam (1523......more
Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913) was a leading Victorian female non-fiction writer who ventured fearlessly into the reserved t......more
These essays offer fresh insight into the life and work of Muriel Spark (1918-2006). Looking at the cultural, literary, ......more
This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and import......more
Explores modernist aesthetics and cultural exchange in Britain, France and beyond Offers cutting-edge explorations of di......more
Celebrates Brigid Brophy’s life’s work, its diversity, originality and achievement The first critical book on Brigid Bro......more
New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers is a collection of critical and pedagogica......more