A multi-disciplinary review of the study of gender and politics through a communication lens. The book shows how gender ......more
A multi-disciplinary review of the study of gender and politics through a communication lens. The book shows how gender ......more
Reading Modernism’s Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller examines the scene of reading in modernis......more
The mid-twentieth-century woman was stereotypically seen as a housewife and mother, who shopped. But whether as purchase......more
The essays gathered here reflect changes in German literary studies over more than half a century of political and cultu......more
This book critically examines the literary antiheroine in contemporary Gothic and crime-thriller novels. Gardner explore......more
This collection of essays connects Lion Feuchtwanger’s work to the gendered experience of exile during the period of Nat......more
The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swell......more
From the brilliantly funny (and rightfully furious) creator of the viral Men Write Women Twitter account, A Tale of Two ......more
This is not your usual memoir - much less a typical love story. Loveland is about the unfolding of unmet expectations, o......more
A brave heroine whose quest involves living her true gender. A genderqueer knight who battles the transphobic court to s......more
The first detailed account of Austen’s characters’ reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characte......more
The first detailed account of Austen’s characters’ reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characte......more
A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 - One of BookPage’s Best Biographies of 2024 - One of Literary Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfic......more
Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: Gender Response-able Labs examines teaching and research practi......more
Popular culture encompasses and draws on a rich history of works by musicians, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and p......more
Popular culture encompasses and draws on a rich history of works by musicians, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and p......more
Although denied the right to vote, late nineteenth-century women writers engaged in debates over land settlement and exp......more
Virginia Woolf and Capitalism explores Woolf’s engagement with and critiques of capitalism throughout her life, arguing ......more
The first half of the twentieth century was a period of accelerated resource extraction, industrial intensification and ......more
The renaissance of Virginia Woolf reflects a reassessment not only of Woolf as a writer but also of our social and polit......more
The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature connects Tolkien......more
This book looks specifically and in depth, for the first time, at masculinity in cheap, lesbian-themed paperbacks of the......more
The conventional lineage of World Literature starts with Goethe and moves through Marx, Said, Moretti, and Damrosch, amo......more
A fresh historical perspective on the transformative relationship between sexuality and the arts around 1968 In the late......more
A ground breaking new book that considers all Siddal poems with reference to female and primarily male counterparts, add......more
This wide-ranging transnational collection theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically and cre......more
This study aims to uncover the traces of the Sweeney legend (Buile Suibhne) in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish......more
A devout Catholic, a visionary--and some say prophetic--writer, Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) has gained a growing prese......more
A devout Catholic, a visionary--and some say prophetic--writer, Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) has gained a growing prese......more
This book comprises a series of essays across a range of topics in honour of Eamon Maher, founding president of the Asso......more
Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten, neglected, or even erased women’s contributions from memory. Women’s agen......more
Why do we love wizards? Where do these magical figures come from? Thinking Queerly traces the wizard from medieval Arthu......more
This volume chronicles the history of feminist theater, from the early 1700s to contemporary productions such as The Hei......more
New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers is a collection of critical and pedagogica......more
This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revi......more
This book offers a fresh perspective on the twentieth-century American weird fiction author H. P. Lovecraft and introduc......more
Contributions by Anita DeRouen, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, W. Ralph Eubanks, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Bernard ......more
Contributions by Anita DeRouen, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, W. Ralph Eubanks, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Bernard ......more
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At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental. Yet the myth ......more
Considering her transformation of material from the works of European writers and orators such as Rousseau, Mirabeau, Fe......more
This study takes up Woolf’s challenge to probe the relationship between education and work, specifically her education a......more
This book examines Virginia Woolf’s influence on the literary afterlives of nineteenth-century women of letters includin......more
(P)rescription Narratives reveals how the act of narrative creates the subjects of disability, race, and gender during a......more
Studies Hart Crane’s publishing history and re-evaluates his reception history....more
In December 1840, Charlotte Brontë wrote in a letter to Hartley Coleridge that she wished ’with all [her] heart’ that sh......more
Queer books, like LGBTQ+ people, adapt heteronormative structures and institutions to introduce space for discourses of ......more
Through an analysis of a broad corpus of correspondences, novels and paintings, this book aims to re-establish the relev......more
Premio al Mejor Libro, Latin American Studies Association-Nineteenth-Century Section, 2025 Premio Victoria Urbano de Mon......more
Premio al Mejor Libro, Latin American Studies Association-Nineteenth-Century Section, 2025 Premio Victoria Urbano de Mon......more
This book re-reads the last sixty years of Anglophone African women’s writing from a transnational and trans-historical ......more
This book explores the impact of major theorist, Donna Haraway, in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new materia......more
The book studies Alice Munro’s inheritance of and contribution to realism in fiction. Nobel Prize winner Munro follows t......more
Through exploring complex suffering in the writings of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy, Women Writing Tr......more
This work explores the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century a......more
Much of U.S. cultural production since the twentieth century has celebrated the figure of the singular individual, from ......more
How the young adult book market has shifted in favor of transgender inclusivity...more
How the young adult book market has shifted in favor of transgender inclusivity...more
"Focusing on the works of Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa for the English reader, this volume provides access to a critic......more
Mina Loy is recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the body, but her fascination with corporeality is inex......more
The book discusses how Polish scholars created an image of ancient Greece in the first half of the nineteenth century. I......more
Mina Loy is recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the body, but her fascination with corporeality is inex......more
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogatio......more
This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most prolific and groundbreaking writers, widely re......more
Finalist, 2025 Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (190......more
Finalist, 2025 Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (190......more
This is a personal memoir providing original information on Greene, his sources of inspiration and his interest in Irela......more
Winner of the 2023 Atwood Society Award for Best Book on Atwood and Her Work Margaret Atwood is one of the most signific......more
Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the......more
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad--and doing both at once. When Suzanne Scanlon was a stud......more
Unlike typical romances, which end with wedding bells, Elinor Glyn’s (1864-1943) story really began after her marriage u......more
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Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian ......more
Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian ......more
Seamus Heaney wrote hundreds of letters and postcards in long hand, answering almost all the letters he received from fr......more
Offering an ecofeminist approach to the interdisciplinary readings of the early-to-mid Victorian Gothic of both canonica......more
Hilary Newman traces Virginia Woolf’s examination of the Brontës across a wide variety of genres: juvenilia, novels, ess......more
Contributions by Yoshiko Akamatsu, Carol L. Beran, Rita Bode, Lesley D. Clement, Allison McBain Hudson, Kate Lawson, Jes......more
Contributions by Yoshiko Akamatsu, Carol L. Beran, Rita Bode, Lesley D. Clement, Allison McBain Hudson, Kate Lawson, Jes......more
This book examines Clarice Lispector’s body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophi......more
This book examines the representation of the female fertility cycle in contemporary Algerian, Mauritian, and French wome......more
In The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship, the author examines how three popular black female authors (R......more
The book focuses on the reception of Witold Gombrowicz’śs literary works in Argentina from 1970 to 2022. It delves into ......more
This study proposes an epistemological model on the basis of a streamlined and heavily modified German Idealism. Applyin......more
Martha Gellhorn’s extraordinary career as a reporter took her to the front lines of nearly every major international con......more
Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821 offers a critical look at the......more
This collection asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point t......more
In this book, Rojas explores comparatively the representations of deviant and criminal women in the late nineteenth and ......more
Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, inc......more
’Heroic Disobedience: The Forced Marriage Plot and the British Novel, 1747-1880’ shows the ways in which eighteenth- and......more
’Impressions from Paris’ studies the contributions of various women artists and writers who lived in Paris during the In......more
The central thesis of this book is to utilize the notion of the heroic ideal and the immortality projects that humans pu......more
From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential 17th and 18th century......more
Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numer......more
The first of its kind, this collection brings together writers from diverse academic and nonacademic worlds to explore h......more
This volume explores through a series of essays, subversive expressions of body, gender and senses in literature and art......more
Food is one of the decisive issues of the Anthropocene. This volume examines how writers and artists from Asia have resp......more
This book offers the first extended account of the mid-century rise of ’model women of the press’ women who not only sto......more
Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch......more