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Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collect......more
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The 9/11 attacks brought large-scale violence into the 21st century with force and have come to epitomize the entangleme......more
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This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. ......more
Charting the period that extends from the 1860s to the 1940s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and ......more
This interdisciplinary, transhistorical collection brings together international scholars from English literature, Itali......more
This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the cros......more
Chick lit is the marketing label attributed to a surge of books published in the wake of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’......more
This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the th......more
This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare s drama......more
This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from the viewpoint of li......more
This book begins a new and foundational discussion of maximalism by investigating how the treatment of detail in contemp......more
This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship through new readings of plays, informed by discussio......more
This first critical collection on Delarivier Manley revisits the most heated discussions, adds new perspectives in light......more
This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem ......more
This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime f......more
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By way of a case study of one of the oldest French book agencies, Agence Hoffman, this book analyzes the role played by ......more
Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontent......more
This book makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of childhood studies in nineteenth-century literature......more
This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International’s influence and afterlives in Britain, ......more
This volume gives Asia s Shakespeares the critical, theoretical, and political space they demand, offering rich, altern......more
First Published in 2017. The first of its kind to address the ecogothic in American literature, this collection of fourt......more
Tracing the industrial emergence of transmedia storytelling--typically branded a product of the contemporary digital med......more
This collection examines the widespread phenomenon of hypocrisy in literary, theological, political, and social circles ......more
Scott’s Books is an approachable introduction to the Waverley Novels. Drawing on substantial research in Scott’s interte......more
In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, c......more
This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during th......more
Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet t......more
By placing comics in a lively dialogue with contemporary narrative theory, The Narratology of Comic Art builds a systema......more
This book argues that the satire of the late Elizabethan period goes far beyond generic rhetorical persuasion, but is in......more
Bringing together heritage studies and literary studies, this book examines heritage as a ubiquitous trope in contempora......more
This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity for......more
The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narrat......more
This interdisciplinary volume explores the fictional portrayal of marriage by women novelists between 1800 and 1900. It ......more
This books presents the first extended study of the relationship between British modernist poetry and the environment. C......more
"Post-Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion" examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with H......more
This volume strengthens interest and research in the fields of both Childhood Studies and Nordic Studies by exploring co......more
The work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has often been the testing-ground for innovations in literary studies, bu......more
Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy relates new understandings of Aristotle’s dramatic theory to the comedy of ......more
Food is a defining feature in every culture. Despite its very basic purpose of sustaining life, it directly impacts the ......more
Rewriting the American Soul focuses on the political implications of psychoanalytic and neurocognitive approaches to tra......more
Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing--lost to disease or neglect......more
Though popular opinion would have us see Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice F......more
The Unknown Relatives analyses a large body of Victorian literary texts dealing with the topic of Catholicism and Cathol......more
We know that way we dress says a lot about us. It s drilled into us by our parents as children, as adults throughout ou......more
As readers, we develop an impression of characters and their settings in a novel based on the author’s description of th......more
This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a li......more
Miton and Early Modern Devotional Culture analyses the representation of public and private prayer in John Milton s poe......more
This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of cont......more
Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores intersections of natio......more
The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare s career and of the golde......more
Within the last half-century, early scholarly approaches and analysis of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress have seen sigi......more
Surreal Beckett situates Beckett’s writings within the context of James Joyce and Surrealism, distinguishing ways in whi......more
In Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition Dr. Christine A. Col n explores how Sa......more
Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wilde s public persona and examines the impact of interpr......more
Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott is the first dedicated comparative study of James Joyce and Derek Walcott. Th......more
As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics ......more
This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited do......more
When Jane Austen represented the ideal subject for a novel as "three or four families in a country village", rather than......more
Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays dealing with cultur......more
This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century women s travel narratives by challenging the......more
Reading London in Wartime: Blitz, the People and Propaganda in 1940s Literature presents an expansive variety of writers......more
New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject: Finite, Singular, Exposed offers new approaches to the modernis......more
Shakespeare s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety of ......more
Questions of Authority investigates Italian-Australian literary travel exchanges throughout the long nineteenth century.......more
Recent years have seen a burgeoning of novels that respond to the environmental issues we currently face. Among these, L......more
A modern-day Taming of the Shrew that concludes at a high school prom. An agoraphobic Olivia from Twelfth Night sending ......more
Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico García Lorca’s trajectory in the theater as a l......more
Following the publication of Ghost Town (2005), a complex, globally conscious genealogy of millennial Manhattan, McGrath......more
Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort sits at the intersection of literary......more
The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction looks at how the twenty-first-century British novel has explo......more
The Algerian War Retold: Of Camus’s Revolt and Postwar Reconciliation focuses on specific aspects of Albert Camus’s ethi......more
This book offers a critical reflection on interpersonal positioning across both large- and small-scale contexts and high......more
This new edition of Eva Feder Kittay’s feminist classic, Love’s Labor, explores how theories of justice and morality mus......more
The first major scholarly investigation into the rich history of the marked body in the early modern period, this interdi......more
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This book interprets the ideas, thoughts and concepts that characterize the writings and philosophy of Albert Camus for ......more
This breakthrough book examines dynamic intersections of poetics and geography. Gathering the essays of an international......more
First published in 1986. It is often suggested that the great first generation of Romantics, after the first flush of th......more
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Routledge Library Editions: Utopias (6 volume set) contains titles, originally published between 1923 and 1982. It inclu......more
Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, law, and Council in the fifth-fourth centuries BCE, these essays......more
Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African Am......more
In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relation......more
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A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern literature brings together a range of arguments explorin......more
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