Literary theory

The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels, reflect contemporary social concerns about the blurring of the boundaries of class and gender.

Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in literary studies.

Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines of queer theory and disability studies.

A woman is incomplete without a man, motherhood is a woman's destiny, and a woman's place is in the home.

In this handy volume, Claire Colebrook offers an overview of the history and structure of irony, from Socrates to the present.

One of the primary objectives of comparative literature is the study of the relationship of texts, also known as intertextuality, which is a means of contextualizing and analyzing the way literature grows and flourishes through inspiration and imitation, direct or indirect.

This study describes a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost.

The South Asian region has been especially prone to mass displacement and relocations owing to its varied geographical settings as well as socio-political factors.

Cutting-edge philosophers, psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and scholars use Freud and Lacan to understand laughter, humor, and the comic.

The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious.

The short story is one of the most difficult types of prose to write and one of the most pleasurable to read.

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This book focuses on queer people and their encounters with international law.

This is a book about contemporary literary and artistic entanglements: word and image, media and materiality, inscription and illustration.

First published in 1979, this collection of sixty-three essays on the novel drawn from ten periodicals demonstrates the primary concerns of those discussing the nature and purpose of prose fiction in the period from 1830 to 1850.

Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman.

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century public discourse, the ontological and material turns in the academy that have occurred over the same time period, and how Afro-diasporic fiction has responded to both with alternative visions of bloodlines, kinship, and community.

Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood, and often unrecognized, geniuses of moral philosophy, but not simply because of their virtue or wit or natural skills in game theory.

Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion explores how emotion is communicated in drama, theatre, and contemporary performance and therefore in society.

First published in 1938, this study explores the reception of the mythology of King Arthur by modern poets and playwrights.

Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture presents an examination of ecoprecarity - the precarious lives that humans lead in the process and event of ecological disaster, and the increasing precarious state of the environment itself as a result of human interventions - in contemporary literary-cultural texts.

This anthology explores the spatial dimension and politics of haunting.

Considering a wide range of cultural materials and engaging in a close reading of literary texts, this book draws a compelling comparison between national identity in Europe and the Third World.

This book contains a lively and wide ranging collection of critical essays on Black women's writing from Afro-American, African, South African, British and Caribbean novelists, poets, short story writers and a dramatist.

This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of ethics in the canon of William Faulkner.

This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works.

Originally published in 1988, this volume contains papers from, and commissioned after, "e;The Passing of Arthur"e;, a conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in November 1986.

'I've never kept a journal', Roland Barthes declared in 1979, ' - or, rather, I've never known if I should keep one'.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

In his discussion of clowns in nineteenth-century French painting from Jean-Leon Gerome's 1857 La Sortie du bal masque to Georges Rouault, art historian Francis Haskell wondered why they are so sad.

One of the primary objectives of comparative literature is the study of the relationship of texts, also known as intertextuality, which is a means of contextualizing and analyzing the way literature grows and flourishes through inspiration and imitation, direct or indirect.

This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature.

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This handbook provides an extensive overview of traditional and emerging research areas within the field of intermediality studies, understood broadly as the study of interrelations among all forms of communicative media types, including transmedial phenomena.

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The essays in this collection explore the concept of 'transubstantiation', its adaptations and transformations in English and European culture from the Elizabethans to the twentieth century.

The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual discourse, centred on sustained discussion of the practice, teaching and morality of art.

This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao's writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic writing in the 20th century.

Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked.

Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 explores a series of debates concerning the nature and value of the past in the long eighteenth century.