Literary theory

Oriental Wells explores the manifold ways in which the East was a major source of inspiration for the British Romantic poets, who generously borrowed from the Eastern sources in their effort to reinvent the British poetic tradition.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the complete works of Wilkie Collins's.

In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies.

Extending the discussion of critical content analysis to the visual realm of picturebooks and graphic novels, this book provides a clear research methodology for understanding and analyzing visual imagery.

Austen After 200 explores our contemporary relationship with Jane Austen in the wake of the bicentenaries of her death and the first publication of her novels.

Afterlives of Abandoned Work considers the relevance of unfinished projects to literary history and criticism, looking beyond famous posthumous work to investigate the abandoned everyday, from scrapped plans and rejected ideas to half-written novels or unfinished artistic works.

This book sets out to determine the validity of an accusation made against Jacques Lacan by Noam Chomsky in an interview in 1989.

This book explores the ideas of the neglected English aesthetician and art historian, Adrian Stokes.

This book, first published in 1980, is a guide to the major forces in the subculture of science fiction.

Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic.

British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhetoric, using the language of the heart to powerful effect in the most important political and humanitarian battle of the time.

This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory.

A bestselling author in his own time and long after, Sir Walter Scott was not only a writer of thrilling tales of romance and adventure but also an insightful historical thinker and literary craftsman.

This much-needed collection examines the formation of a black British canon including writers, dramatists, film-makers and artists.

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This book demonstrates how city literature addresses questions of possibility.

This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century.

Marvell and Liberty is a collection of original essays by leading scholars which treats this major poet in an entirely new light.

This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust.

Women and the Irish Diaspora looks at the changing nature of national and cultural belonging both among women who have left Ireland and those who remain.

Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works.

Violence and the Sacred is Ren Girard's landmark study of human evil.

This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations.

Sultzbach''s book provides a wide-ranging investigation into how the works of Forster, Woolf, and Auden helped shape our environmental imagination.

Literature is often defined as a distinct category of writing in terms of particular formal or aesthetic attributes.

This book offers new perspectives on text/image hybridity in the context of life writing.

Sigmund Freud can be a polarizing figure, beloved by many and despised by some.

There has been a proliferation in recent scholarship of studies of monuments and their histories and of theoretical positions that shed light on aspects of their meanings.

The first work devoted specifically to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature.

Originally published in 1929, The Process of Literature is a study of the art of letters considered from a new point of view, as a process of human activity rather than as a series of objects produced by that activity.

This book is a comprehensive critical re-reading of Nayantara Sahgal's oeuvre.

This guide to investing in the bioenergy market covers the topic from both a scientific, economic and political perspective.

Literature and Modern Time is a collection of essays that explore literature in the context of a wave of challenges to linear conceptions of time introduced by thinkers such as Bergson, Einstein, McTaggart, Freud and Nietzsche.

In countries worldwide, the Cold War dominated politics, society and culture during the second half of the twentieth century.

This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first century.

In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "e;forge"e;-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.

The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye is the first volume of literary criticism to be co-authored by a practicing psychoanalyst and a literary critic.

This book presents an ecocritical reading of DeLillo's novels in an attempt to mediate between the seemingly incompatible influences of postmodernism and environmentalism.

Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is new and autonomous.

Originally published in 1983, this volume follows others in the series.

'The dead travel fast and, in our contemporary globalised world, so too does the gothic.

This is a collection of fifteen essays which expose weaknesses in western epistemological frames of reference that for centuries have limited our views, and, thus, our experiences of animal being, including our own.

Luxurious Sexualities contains some of the most path- breaking adventurous critical writing currently to be found in Britain.