Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame.

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame.

Through her formally innovative and psychologically insightful short stories, Katherine Mansfield is increasingly recognised as one of the central figures in early 20th-century modernism.

Through her formally innovative and psychologically insightful short stories, Katherine Mansfield is increasingly recognised as one of the central figures in early 20th-century modernism.

Finalist for the 2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy StudiesFrom the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy.

Finalist for the 2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy StudiesFrom the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy.

Writing Remains brings together a wide range of leading archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging intersections in archaeological and literary studies.

Writing Remains brings together a wide range of leading archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging intersections in archaeological and literary studies.

An obsession with “degeneration” was a central preoccupation of modernist culture at the start of the 20th century.

An obsession with “degeneration” was a central preoccupation of modernist culture at the start of the 20th century.

For more than 40 years Eastern European culture came under the sway of Soviet rule.

For more than 40 years Eastern European culture came under the sway of Soviet rule.

With his richly detailed world of Middle Earth and the epic tales he told around it, J.

With his richly detailed world of Middle Earth and the epic tales he told around it, J.

Samuel Beckett's private writings and public work show his deep interest in the workings of the human mind.

Samuel Beckett's private writings and public work show his deep interest in the workings of the human mind.

Along with humans and animals, ghosts populate the pages of contemporary Anglophone novels.

Along with humans and animals, ghosts populate the pages of contemporary Anglophone novels.

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literature grappled with ideas of time and history during the political transition away from apartheid?

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literature grappled with ideas of time and history during the political transition away from apartheid?

Traditional apocalyptic texts concern the advent of a better world at the end of history that will make sense of everything that happened before.

Traditional apocalyptic texts concern the advent of a better world at the end of history that will make sense of everything that happened before.

This book draws on the philosopher René Girard to argue that three twentieth-century American novels (Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides, Rick Moody's The Ice Storm, and Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road) are tragedies.

This book draws on the philosopher René Girard to argue that three twentieth-century American novels (Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides, Rick Moody's The Ice Storm, and Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road) are tragedies.

Antitheory has long been a venerable brand of theory and although seemingly opposite the two impulses have long been intertwined.

Antitheory has long been a venerable brand of theory and although seemingly opposite the two impulses have long been intertwined.

Metaphysics of Children's Literature is the first sustained study of ways in which children's literature confronts metaphysical questions about reality and the nature of what there is in the world.

Metaphysics of Children's Literature is the first sustained study of ways in which children's literature confronts metaphysical questions about reality and the nature of what there is in the world.

Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers.

Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers.

With fascism on the march in Europe and a second World War looming, a group of Britain's leading intellectuals – including T.

With fascism on the march in Europe and a second World War looming, a group of Britain's leading intellectuals – including T.

Bringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors explores Booker and Franz Kafka prize-winning Irish author John Banville's most significant intellectual influences.

Bringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors explores Booker and Franz Kafka prize-winning Irish author John Banville's most significant intellectual influences.

Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy is the first book to draw extensively from material in the Salman Rushdie archive at Emory University to uncover the makings of the British-Indian writer's modernist poetics.

Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy is the first book to draw extensively from material in the Salman Rushdie archive at Emory University to uncover the makings of the British-Indian writer's modernist poetics.

The novels of Storm Jameson and their depictions of Britain's relationship to Europe around the Second World War represent a crucial departure from the work of her contemporaries.

The novels of Storm Jameson and their depictions of Britain's relationship to Europe around the Second World War represent a crucial departure from the work of her contemporaries.

Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender.

Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender.

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Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the 'queer troublemaker' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically.

Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the 'queer troublemaker' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically.

With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today.

With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today.

Since the publication of Ghostwritten (1999), David Mitchell has rapidly established himself as one of the most inventive and important British novelists of the 21st century.

Since the publication of Ghostwritten (1999), David Mitchell has rapidly established himself as one of the most inventive and important British novelists of the 21st century.

From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of “Cool Britannia,” the many subcultures of Britain's teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change.

From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of “Cool Britannia,” the many subcultures of Britain's teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change.