Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

This book examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

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 study considers cultural representations of "e;brown"e; people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the Abolition era onwards.

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 offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior.

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 post-1960s era of popular music in the Anglo-Black Atlantic through the prism of historical theory and methods.

This book represents a meeting of queer theorists and psychoanalysts around the figure of the child.

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?

Through close readings of works from Henry James to W.

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.

In this book, the first in English devoted exclusively to Maurice Blanchot, John Gregg examines the problematic interaction between the two forms of discourse, critical and fictional, that comprise this writer's hybrid oeuvre.

A charming guide to Japan in comic-book form!

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

Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality, follows a group of characters who try to fashion their fife stories into acceptable drama.

What does the world's favorite sport mean in the United States?

In this fun Japanese children's book, kids will learn to create haiku--elegant and simplistic Japanese poems.

As video gaming and gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work.

This book is an exploration of how the relationship of evangelicals to the arts has been portrayed in fiction for the last century.

Based on an analysis of Sherwood Anderson's letters, this study explores the novelist's principal inspiration during his final years (1938-1941): his exposure to Latin America.

New Zealand author Janet Frame (1924-2004) during her lifetime published 11 novels, three collections of short stories, a volume of poetry and a children's book.

This collection of 19 new essays by 21 authors from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and India focuses on contemporary film and television (1989 to the present) from those countries as well as from China, Korea, Thailand and France.

Richard Yates (1926-1992) has been described as a "e;writer's writer"e; but has never received the critical attention befitting that designation.

This detailed chronological analysis of British World War II movies from 1939 until the present explores how films projected recognizable stereotypes of British national character and how the times in which a film was made shaped its perspectives.

The 2005 James McTeigue and Wachowski Brothers film V for Vendetta represents a postmodern pastiche, a collection of fragments pasted together from the original Moore and Lloyd graphic novel of the same name, along with numerous allusions to literature, history, cinema, music, art, politics, and medicine.

The controversial Leslie Fiedler (1917-2003) was one of the first critics of popular culture as well as an early proponent of queer theory.

This study explores Chaucer's present-day cultural reputation by way of popular culture.

Fan CULTure explores how present-day fans interact with the films, television shows, books, and pop culture artifacts they love.

On the TV screen as elsewhere, there is often more than meets the eye.

"e;Top 40"e; was the preeminent American radio format of the 1950s and 1960s.

`the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended.

The chautauqua movement was a truly American phenomenon, providing education and entertainment for millions of people and employing thousands of musicians in the process.

This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences.

Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.