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This collection of letters was written by Raden Adjeng Kartini, the daughter of a Javanese civil servant in the Dutch co......more

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In Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture, Krzakowski shows how matters of international relations--refugee......more

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Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for......more

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This book attempts to critically examine Dalit women’s literature to analyse how Dalit women perceive and depict caste, ......more

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While the world often categorizes women in reductive false binaries-careerist versus mother, feminine versus fierce-roma......more

Regardless of his own sexual orientation, L. Frank Baum’s fictions revel in queer, trans, and other transgressive themes......more

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Examines a variety of texts from late Enlightenment Germany to provide a nuanced rethinking of women’s roles as wives, m......more

A unique intersection between periodical and literary scholarship, and class and gender history, this book showcases a b......more

The Technological Unconscious in Contemporary Fiction in English analyzes the way in which contemporary English-language......more

Providing close readings of well-known British realist writers including Pat Barker, A. S. Byatt, Rose Tremain, Sarah Ha......more

The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a n......more

The seven novels of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë took advantage of the change spurred on by the Industrial Revoluti......more

As a novelist, feminist, socialist, activist, travel-writer, and diarist, Naomi Mitchison is one of Scotland’s most impo......more

This ground-breaking anthology brings together 38 short stories culled from over a century of writing by Muslim women fr......more

Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita in the #MeToo Era seeks to critique the novel from the standpoint of its teachability to under......more

With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter.......more

First published in 1959, Novelists on the Novel makes an attempt to set out fully what novelists both major and minor ha......more

An exploration of Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite’s religious outlook through the inner journeys of five female chara......more

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This volume of essays continues the establishment of Lois McMaster Bujold as an important author of contemporary science......more

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Are you seeking inspiration to brighten your day? Look no further. The Little Book Of Introverted Thoughts is bursting w......more

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This book expands on a literary tradition where Black writers articulate the impact of slavery’s legacy over time. Along......more

Using an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of seemin......more

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Modernist Intimacies traces modern intimacy back to the first decades of the twentieth century, showing that modernism p......more

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Examines traditional sites of binary thinking in ancient Greek texts and culture to demonstrate surprising ambiguity, es......more

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