Literary theory

Edward W.

This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns-both practical and theoretical-related to the study of print culture.

This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in the subject.

This book focuses on the way that notions of home and identity have changed for Muslims as a result of international 'war on terror' rhetoric.

This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the inner life.

Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the ways Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition.

The reputation of the Marquis de Sade is well-founded.

Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood.

A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the relationship between such policymaking and transformations in the economy.

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century.

This study contributes to ongoing discussions on the connections between the environmental imaginary and issues of identity, place and nation.

This book offers a new critical perspective on emerging and alternative 'spaces' for emancipation within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities.

Water Stories in the Anthropocene explores how climate change has emerged as a major theme in our daily lives as it poses a myriad of economic, scientific, political and cultural challenges in the age of the Anthropocene.

Cosmopolitanism and Place considers the way contemporary Anglophone fiction connects global identities with the experience in local places.

Serial Memoir chronicles the phenomenon of seriality in memoir, a transition in life writing toward repeated acts of self-representation in the later twentieth century.

Fin-de-Siecle Fictions, 1890s- 1990s focuses on fin-de-siecle British and postmodern American fictions of apocalypse and investigates the ways in which these narratives demonstrate shifts in the relations among modern discourses of power and knowledge.

This collection of essays is dedicated to examining the recent literary phenomenon of the 'neo-historical' novel, a sub-genre of contemporary historical fiction which critically re-imagines specific periods of history.

Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.

In 1898, both Cuba and the Philippines achieved their independence from Spain and then immediately became targets of US expansionism.

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances.

Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century.

This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature.

A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline.

Literature and Politics in the 1620s argues that literature during this decade was inextricably linked to politics, whether oppositional or authoritarian.

Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination.

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century.

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century.

This edited book provides a unique opportunity for international scholars to contribute to the exploration of liminality in the field of Anglo-American literature written by or about women between the Victorian period and the Second World War.

The Gothic and the Everyday aims to regenerate interest in the Gothic within the experiential contexts of history, folklore, and tradition.

This stylistic study of consciousness in the Modernist novel explores shifts across different viewpoints and the techniques through which they are dialogically interconnected.

Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted national tropes by reclaiming their countries' shared historical identification with hospitality.

Ocho articulos academicos de Claudio Maiz, Maria Paula Pino Villar, Alejandro Paredes, Emiliano Matias Campoy, Pablo Ponza, Ramiro Esteban Zo y Gabriel Motali, sobre las redes intelectuales que se crearon en Latinoamerica durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX en torno de las revistas culturales Crisis, Forja y Terra.

First published in 2004.

First published in 2004.

Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon.

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century.

A comprehensive, yet entertaining, examination of the Law & Order juggernaut.

John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall's eclectic body of work from the perspective of his heterodox materialist arguments about the imagination, political reform, and the principle of life itself, and his contributions to Romantic-era science.

This is Volume IV of Postcolonialism part of a series of critical concepts in literary and cultural studies.

The Postcolonial Cultural Industry makes a timely intervention into the field of postcolonial studies by unpacking its relation to the cultural industry.

This resounding defence of the principles of free expression revisits the Satanic Verses uproar of 1989, as well as subsequent incidents such as the Danish cartoons controversy, to argue that the human right of free speech is by no means so secure that it can be taken for granted.

Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception.

Literature after Postmodernism explores the use of literary fantastic storylines in contemporary novels which begin to think beyond postmodernism.

First published in 2004.

This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siecle to World War One.

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century.

This original study examines Jean-Francois Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature.

Tracking ideas of the child in Chinese society across the twentieth century, Kate Foster places fictional children within the story of the nation in a study of tropes and themes which range from images of strength and purity to the murderous and amoral.

This book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture.

Here, Bjorklund shows that Swedish literary discourses on lesbianism provocatively contrast with a widely accepted view that attitudes toward homosexuality have gradually become more tolerant.