Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Dante on View opens an important new dimension in Dante studies: for the first time a collection of essays analyses the presence of the Italian Medieval poet Dante Alighieri in the visual and performing arts from the Middle Ages to the present day.

This lively and intellectually vigorous conspectus of studies approaches the subject of exile from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

This lively and intellectually vigorous conspectus of studies approaches the subject of exile from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.

Angelia Poon examines how British colonial authority in the nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways that were recognizably 'English'.

Angelia Poon examines how British colonial authority in the nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways that were recognizably 'English'.

There is no doubt that the political and cultural map of Europe is in the process of being radically redrawn.

There is no doubt that the political and cultural map of Europe is in the process of being radically redrawn.

In a career that spanned over forty years, Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857-1932) was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer.

In a career that spanned over forty years, Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857-1932) was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer.

This volume captures the rich diversity of European performance practice evident in the twentieth and early part of the twenty-first century.

This volume captures the rich diversity of European performance practice evident in the twentieth and early part of the twenty-first century.

Alison Holland's innovative book fills a gap in Beauvoir studies by focusing on the writer's frequently neglected novels and short stories, L'Invitee, Les Mandarins, Les Belles Images, and La Femme rompue.

Alison Holland's innovative book fills a gap in Beauvoir studies by focusing on the writer's frequently neglected novels and short stories, L'Invitee, Les Mandarins, Les Belles Images, and La Femme rompue.

Shelley Saguaro's unique book illustrates the persistent presence of gardens in literature.

Shelley Saguaro's unique book illustrates the persistent presence of gardens in literature.

Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of VergangenheitsbewA ltigung (coming to terms with the past).

Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of VergangenheitsbewA ltigung (coming to terms with the past).

In her provocative study of Gertrude Stein, G.

Dr Henri de Rothschild was a fifth generation Rothschild and perhaps the most famous of the Paris Rothschilds of the fin-de-siecle period.

Dr Henri de Rothschild was a fifth generation Rothschild and perhaps the most famous of the Paris Rothschilds of the fin-de-siecle period.

In her provocative study of Gertrude Stein, G.

What role did music play in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s?

What role did music play in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s?

In her compelling reexamination of Djuna Barnes's work, Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation.

In her compelling reexamination of Djuna Barnes's work, Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation.

How do books attract their readers?

How do books attract their readers?

This volume offers a reasoned critical account of a wide range of travel writing about rural Ireland.

This volume offers a reasoned critical account of a wide range of travel writing about rural Ireland.

This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Illuminating Eco covers the range of British scholarship on the prolific literary and theoretical work of Umberto Eco.

Illuminating Eco covers the range of British scholarship on the prolific literary and theoretical work of Umberto Eco.

Italian writer and political activist Ignazio Silone spent fifteen years from 1929 to 1944 as a political exile in Switzerland.

Italian writer and political activist Ignazio Silone spent fifteen years from 1929 to 1944 as a political exile in Switzerland.

Making the case that J.

Making the case that J.

Focusing on the last will and testament as a legal, literary, and cultural document, Cathrine O.

Focusing on the last will and testament as a legal, literary, and cultural document, Cathrine O.

Music is commonly felt to offer a valued experience, yet to put that experience into words is no easy task.

Music is commonly felt to offer a valued experience, yet to put that experience into words is no easy task.

Secretaries are the hidden technicians of much literary (and non-literary) writing; they also figure startlingly often as characters in modern literature, film, and even literary criticism.

Secretaries are the hidden technicians of much literary (and non-literary) writing; they also figure startlingly often as characters in modern literature, film, and even literary criticism.

Little magazines made modernism happen.

Little magazines made modernism happen.

European literature and theory of the twentieth century have been intensely preoccupied with questions of 'Desire', whereas 'love' has increasingly represented a fractured and strange, if not actually suspect, proposal: this is a prime symptom of an age of deep cultural mutation and uncertainty.

European literature and theory of the twentieth century have been intensely preoccupied with questions of 'Desire', whereas 'love' has increasingly represented a fractured and strange, if not actually suspect, proposal: this is a prime symptom of an age of deep cultural mutation and uncertainty.

Making Nothing Happen is a conversation between five poet-theologians who are broadly within the Christian tradition - Nicola Slee, Ruth Shelton, Mark Pryce, Eleanor Nesbitt and Gavin D'Costa.