Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

* 2025 Locus Awards Winner, Non-Fiction* 2025 Ignyte Awards Shortlist, Outstanding Creative Nonfiction* 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, African American Non-Fiction* 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist* 2024 British Science Fiction Association Award (BSFA) Shortlist, Best Short Non-Fiction * 2024 BSFA Award Longlist, Best Long Non-Fiction* One of Brittle Paper's 100 Notable African Books of 2024* One of Open Country Mag's 60 Notable African Books of 2024In this vibrant and approachable book, award-winning writers of black speculative fiction bring together excerpts from their work and creative reflections on futurisms with original essays.

Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction.

Considering texts by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, James Weldon Johnson, F.

Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most established, and controversial, writers.

Margaret Atwood is an internationally renowned, highly versatile author whose work creatively explores what it means to be human through genres ranging from feminist fable to science fiction and Gothic romance.

It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of the nineteenth century show a constant experimentation and evolution.

Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer is far more than a work that tested American censorship laws.

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This literary biography is "e;a story of obsession and the search for pure childhood .

In a compelling chronicle of her search to understand Beauvoir's philosophy in The Second Sex, Margaret A.

This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference.

This study looks at the origins of the modernist movement, linking gender, modernism and the literary, before considering the bearing these discourses had on Djuna Barnes's writing.

This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present.

This book is about the role that the imperfect, the disquieting and the dystopian are currently playing in the construction of Irish identities.

Winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T.

This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy-Lord Dunsany, E.

This book analyses the 1980s as a nuclear decade, focusing on British and United States fiction.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language.

This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience.

Through a series of case studies spanning the bounds of literature, photography, essay, and manifesto, this book examines the ways in which literary texts do theoretical, ethical, and political work.

This book unearths Carter's deconstruction of the male-dominated discipline of Western thought.

This book considers scientific performances across two centuries, from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

This book provides a much-needed comparative approach to the history of cities by investigating the dissemination of cultural forms between cities of the Atlantic world.

This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children's literature in collections.

In this critical volume, leading scholars in the field examine the performance of Shakespeare in Asia.

The idea of the "e;mamma italiana"e; is one of the most widespread and recognizable stereotypes in perceptions of Italian national character both within and beyond Italy.

This book examines ideas of Irishness in the writing of Mary McCarthy, Maeve Brennan, Alice McDermott, Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart, and Emma Donoghue.

This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction.

This book argues that Shaw was a masterful reader of Ibsen's plays both as texts and as the cornerstone of the modern theatre.

100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre.

This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women's writing of this period.

This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction.

An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society.

This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett's pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio.

This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region.

Hemingway has been labeled a 'communist sympathizer,' 'elitist', and a 'rugged individualist.

This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents.

Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Imagining New Europe provides a comprehensive study of the way in which contemporary writers, filmmakers, and the media have represented the recent phenomenon of Eastern European migration to the UK and Western Europe following the enlargement of the EU in the 21st century, the social and political changes after the fall of communism, and the Brexit vote.

What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics?

This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread yet often misunderstood condition - nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national and historical as well as personal boundaries.

First published in 1981, this book offers a study of British and American popular fiction in the 1970s, a decade in which the quest for the superseller came to dominate the lives of publishers on both sides of the Atlantic.

First published in 1967, this is a study which tackles the central problem of meaning, within Ezra Pound's The Cantos.

This book investigates the relationship developed between the researcher/evaluator and the commissioning arts and cultural producer in providing an opportunity to rethink the traditional process of reporting back on value and impact through the singular entity of funds acquittal.

This book analyzes the roots of Irish social and sexual conservatism and the dramatic change in one of the most basic areas of human experience: how we understand our roles as men and women.

This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson.

This book will be the first study to focus exclusively on presentations of the antipodes.

In this timely study, Batra examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries.

Melvin Burgess has made a powerful name for himself in the world of children's and young adult literature, emerging in the 1990s as the author of over twenty critically acclaimed novels.

Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and Genre: BeyondFiction offers the first study of Wharton's full engagement with original writing ingenres outside those with which she has been most closely identified.

Society does not make it easy for young people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to find accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality.