Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Did aliens visit ancient civilizations?

This lively and ground-breaking collection brings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two.

Is the position of women in the workplace changing?

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Revisiting Virginia Woolf's most experimental novels, Elsa Högberg explores how Woolf's writing prompts us to re-examine the meaning of intimacy.

This title centres around digital gender activism focusing on the implications that the phenomenon of online gender activism has for politics, society, culture and gender relations/dynamics.

Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology, medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines the complicated intersections of food consumption, political economy, and religious conviction in nineteenth-century Britain.

This History traces the development of the Indian novel from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century up until the present day.

The hidden role of philanthropy in enriching America's prosperity-and the world'sPhilanthropy has long been a distinctive feature of American culture, but its crucial role in the economic well-being of the nation-and the world-has remained largely unexplored.

India as colourful and vibrant, a land as diverse as its people.

Writing Australian History On-screen: Television and Film Period Dramas "e;Down Under"e; reveals the depths of Australian history from convict times to the present day.

Shorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best MonographDespite his films being subjected to censorship and denigration in his native China, Jia Zhangke has become the country's leading independent film director internationally.

This volume advances scholarly understanding of the ways in which discourse deixis underpins the workings of metafictional novels.

Female Characters play various roles in the Odyssey: patron goddess (Athena), seductress (Kirke, the Sirens, Nausikaa), carnivorous monster (Skylla), maid servant (Eurykleia), and faithful wife (Penelope).

Soccer has long been known as 'the beautiful game'.

Monstrous media/spectral subjects explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present.

Offering comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to Natalia Ginzburg, this volume situates Ginzburg's works within major critical discourses to articulate innovative readings and mobilize further lines of inquiry.

There is a long history of interest in 'strangers' and 'strangeness' in the West.

Viewing the poem as a social agent and product in women's lives, the essays in this collection examine factors influencing the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in seventeenth-century England and Scotland.

Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic is an innovative new study of the ways in which women writers have used Gothic historical fiction to symbolise and counter their exclusion from traditional historical narratives.

A classic account of Jane Austen in the context of eighteenth century feminist ideas and contemporary thought.

The Best Sex Writing series has has fundamentally changed the way people thinkand what they sayabout sexuality.

Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero looks at how the comic book industry developed from a white perspective and how minority characters were and are viewed through a stereotypical white gaze.

Drawing on the recent academic interest in approaching health and wellbeing from a humanities perspective, Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds investigates how the Victorians dealt with questions of mental health by examining literary works in the genre of sensation fiction.

First published in 1957, this book explores what remained of Joyce's background, not only in Ireland but in those cities abroad where his books were written.

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Explores the first appearance of ''science fiction'' in the pages of late nineteenth-century general interest periodicals.

A work of reference on ''the age of Johnson'', putting literature in the context of the society that produced it.

Trilingual Joyce is a detailed comparative study of James Joyce's personal involvement in both French and Italian translations of the iconic 1928 text Anna Livia Plurabelle, which later became the eighth chapter of Finnegans Wake.

This publication titled, Applied Women and Children Studies provides readers with an introductory overview of women and children studies.

This book contains the Naval Staff History originally issued by the Admiralty in 1957 as a confidential book for use within the Royal Navy.

The appearance of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine in 1891 began a stampede of writers who wanted to emulate, build upon or even satirize Arthur Conan Doyle's work.

Viewing the poem as a social agent and product in women's lives, the essays in this collection examine factors influencing the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in seventeenth-century England and Scotland.

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction?

From the acclaimed author of Unfinished Business, a story of crisis and change that can help us find renewed honesty and purpose in our personal and political livesLike much of the world, America is deeply divided over identity, equality, and history.

How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States?

From the authors of Hope for the Weary Mom comes a new 40-day devotional.

North Carolina Society of Historians Book AwardSouthern Conference on African American Studies, Inc.

In 1997, Terryl Givens's The Viper on the Hearth was praised as a new classic in Mormon studies.

Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.

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This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.

Feminist theory is a challenging and often deeply divided body of thought that raises issues which affect us all.

In this memoir, Sascha Feinstein recounts life with his father, Sam Feinstein, who was both a brilliantartist and a hoarder of monumental proportions.

A critical deep-drive into conceptions of power and society in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, this book brings together experts in fantasy literature, political sciences, economics, philosophy, history, and journalism to consider the intricate social tapestry of one of the most intricate worlds in modern fantasy.

In this 2001 book, Jessica Berman claims that modernist fiction engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community.

This edition of the papyrus containing Didymos' comments on some of Demosthenes' speeches aims to provide the student with a new reading of the text, a facing translation that is carefully edited for those who cannot use the Greek to show what is extant and what is restored, and a detailed commentary that considers all issues related to the restoration of the text and to its historical content.