Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin's writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin's related writings.

This collection is the first book-length study to re-evaluate all of James Joyce's major fictional works through the lens of cognitive studies.

This book follows the figure of 'the clever girl' from the post-war to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays and memoirs of contemporary British women writers.

This book provides a fascinating account of rooms in selected works by Virginia Woolf.

This book examines the relationships between memory, history, and national identity through an interdisciplinary analysis of James Joyce's works-as well as of literary texts by Kundera, Ford, Fitzgerald, and Walker Percy.

Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture is a collective reflection on the value of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's work for the study of Spanish and Latin American literature and culture.

This book explores Henry James's negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substantively examined in light of their relationships to his work.

Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his sex.

Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery, metaphors, and concepts in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919-1987).

This book is concerned with food autobiographies written by men from the 1980s to the present.

This book argues that there are deep connections between 'poetic' thinking and the sensitive recognition of creaturely others.

This book examines one work dealing with madness from each of five prominent authors.

This book of collected essays approaches Beckett's work through the context of modernism, while situating it in the literary tradition at large.

This book examines women's domestic occupations in the Romantic-period novel at the most intimately human level.

This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination.

This book analyzes a collection of literary memoirs to demonstrate how this genre is an avenue for participation in public life.

This book represents the first serious consideration of the 'domestic noir' phenomenon and, by extension, the psychological thriller.

Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic explores the impact of climate change on Canadian literary culture.

One of the leading figures in Latin American folk music and art during her lifetime, Violeta Parra was a vital force in the artistic, musical, visual, cultural, and social cultural production of the Chilean 1960s.

This book is an exploration of the material conditions of the production of African literature.

This book is a collection of traditional German fairy tales and fables, deliberately transformed into utopian narratives and social commentary by political activists in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933).

Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion  and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the profound and frequently perplexing bond between writer and mother.

This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960.

This book explores the relationship between psychoanalysis, literary criticism and contemporary literature.

This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature.

This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett.

The book is the first full-length text on Anthony Burgess's fiction in a generation, and offers a radical and innovative way of understanding the extensive literary achievements of one of the twentieth century's most innovative authors.

This book is about the modernist narrative voice and its correlation to medical, mythological, and psychoanalytic images of emasculation between 1919 and 1945.

This book is about haunting in modernist literature.

This collection represents a new range of critical awareness and marks the burgeoning of what is a twenty-first-century Marianne Moore renaissance.

This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb's ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality, redistribution and democracy in a developed economy.

This book explores the themes of identity, suffering, and hope in the stories of Puerto Rican people to surface the anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology of a Puerto Rican decolonial theology.

This book examines Toni Morrison's fiction as a sustained effort to challenge the dominant narratives produced in the white supremacist political imaginary and conceptualize a more inclusive political imaginary in which black bodies are valued.

This book brings together essays dealing with the question of zoopoetics both as an object of study-i.

This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature.

This book is a major study of the presentation of work and workers in contemporary novels from India, North America and the UK.

This book offers fresh critical interpretation of two of the central tenets of Irish culture - migration and memory.

This book examines the role of food in the life and works of Thomas Hardy, analysing the social, political and historical context of references to meals, eating and food production during the nineteenth century.

This volume considers Joseph Conrad's use of multiple genres, including allusions to sensation fiction, pornography, anthropology, and Darwinian science, to respond to Victorian representations of gender in layered and contradictory representations of his own.

This volume uncovers the ideas concerning everyday life circulating in the burgeoning feminist periodical culture of Britain in the early twentieth century.

This book explores Sartre's engagement with the Cuban Revolution.

This book examines Donald M.

This book attempts to understand what 'contemporary' has meant, and should mean, for literary studies.

This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics.

This book brings together geographers and literary scholars in a series of engagements near the boundaries of their disciplines.

This book provides a rich and cutting-edge analysis of one of the most prominent literary groups in Latin America: the Mexican Crack Writers.

This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss' and Lewis Hyde's theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy.

This book examines Uncreative Writing-the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry-against a decade of controversy.

This book explores the humanities as an insightful platform for understanding and responding to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, other manifestations of "e;Guantanamo,"e; and the contested place of freedom in American Empire.

This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children's literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century.