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Equestrian Rebels

Critical Perspectives on Mariano Azuela and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution

Edited By: Roberto Cantú

£52.99

This collection of essays commemorates the first centenary of Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo, and traces its impact on twentieth-century autobiographies, memoirs and, more specifically, on the Novel of the Mexican Revolution.

Eva Figes’ Writings

A Journey through Trauma

By: Silvia Pellicer-Ortin

£47.99

Offering an overview of the life and literary career of the prolific writer Eva Figes, this book places her extensive production within the various literary movements that shaped the previous century, using the theoretical background provided by ethics and trauma studies.

Ex-centric Writing

Essays on Madness in Postcolonial Fiction

Edited By: Annalisa Pes, Susanna Zinato

£44.99

This volume of essays examines postcolonial alienation through the anamorphic lens of madness. In fiction from Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia, the mad character’s vision is a warning against discourses that pass as the natural order of things.

Fatal Attractions, Abjection, and the Self in Literature from the Restoration to the Romantics

By: Laura Alexander

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Alexander uses Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to examine several works by British writers from the Restoration to the Romantic era, providing a constructive perspective for thinking about literary depictions of the self-in-crisis.

Fiction Unbound

Bernardine Evaristo

By: Sebnem Toplu

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This book shows how Bernardine Evaristo is not simply a “multicultural” writer. It reveals an author who questions concepts like “Englishness,” race, and gender, giving marginalized characters the chance to tell their own stories.

First Letters in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Edited By: Alain Kerhervé, Catherine Thomas-Ripault

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What is a 'first letter'? Is it a child's first writing, a first love letter, or the first to a new correspondent? This volume examines the first letters of authors, philosophers, and artists—including Voltaire, Diderot, and Coleridge—and their connection to what follows.

What is a ‘first letter’? Is it a child’s first writing, a first love letter, or the first to a new correspondent? This volume examines the first letters of authors, philosophers, and artists—including Voltaire, Diderot, and Coleridge—and their connection to what follows.

French Orientalism

Culture, Politics, and the Imagined Other

Edited By: Desmond Hosford, Chong J. Wojtkowski

£39.99

This volume challenges the canonic approach to French Orientalism. Broadening the scope of enquiry from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, it uses new theoretical perspectives to question, subvert, and resituate canonic theories and their global consequences.

Girlhood in British Coming-of-Age Novels

The Bildungsroman Heroine Revisited

By: Soňa Šnircová

£58.99

Šnircová discusses a selection of coming-of-age narratives that offer a revisiting of the classic Bildungsroman heroine and present her developments in postwar and postmillennial British literature, drawing on the work of various feminist critics.

Glocal Ireland

Current Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts

Edited By: Juan F. Elices Agudo, Marisol Morales Ladrón Soledad

£39.99

Ireland's transformation from the Celtic Tiger's boom to its dramatic downfall has redefined the nation's identity. This volume explores the interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Irish literature, culture, and cinema.

Ireland’s transformation from the Celtic Tiger’s boom to its dramatic downfall has redefined the nation’s identity. This volume explores the interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Irish literature, culture, and cinema.

Graphic History

Essays on Graphic Novels And/As History

Edited By: Richard Iadonisi

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the unique ways graphic novels shed new light on history. Analyzing writers from Art Spiegelman (Maus) to Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), these essays cover subjects from Jack the Ripper to the Iranian Revolution.

Greece and Britain since 1945

Edited By: David Wills

£34.99

This book explores the transformation of Anglo-Greek relations since 1945. With contributions from leading academics and journalists, it focuses on cultural perceptions, covering literature, the work of aid agencies, and television series set in Greece.

Greece and Britain since 1945 Second Edition

Edited By: David Wills

£29.99

This book explores the transformation of Anglo-Greek relations since 1945, focusing on the perceptions of writers and organisations. This updated edition includes new chapters discussing the recent "Greek Crisis" and its portrayal in British media.

Histories of Laughter and Laughter in History

HistoRisus

Edited By: Rafał Borysławski, Justyna Jajszczok, Jakub Wolff

£52.99

This volume represents a meeting ground for historians, philologists, and scholars of social science, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present.

History, Memory and Nostalgia in Literature and Culture

Edited By: Regina Rudaitytė

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The essays here focus on the relevance of the past to the present and future in terms of the shifting attitudes to personal and collective experiences that have shaped dominant Western critical discourses about history, memory, and nostalgia.

Homosexuality in Italian Literature, Society, and Culture, 1789-1919

Edited By: Elisa Bianco, Anita Virga

£61.99

Homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestitism and trans-genders represented new ideas and mentalities which shattered nineteenth-century Italy. This book offers a comprehensive overview of this phenomenon and makes a major contribution to Italian studies and modern European history.

Humanism and Christian Letters in Early Modern Iberia (1480-1630)

Edited By: Alejandro Coroleu

£39.99

These essays examine the influence of Christian Latin literature upon the Latin and vernacular letters of the Iberian Peninsula (1480–1630). Contrary to most studies, this volume accommodates authors writing in Portuguese, Catalan, and Latin.

Images in Words

Only History Exists

By: William Mallinson

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This compendium of William Mallinson’s poetry and prose is a vehicle to demonstrate that only history—in its purest form, the past—exists. It briefly evaluates the circumstances that led to each poem and story but avoids analysis, stressing the importance of emotion in reading.

Images of Irishness in Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature

By: Dimitrios Kassis

£58.99

As the British Empire defined itself against alleged Celtic backwardness, Irish nationalism surged. This book investigates how 19th-century racist and nationalist discourses shaped Irish identity, exploring travelogues that cast the island as both a utopia and a dystopia.

Imagining Home

Exilic Reconstructions in Norma Manea and Andrei Codrescu’s Diasporic Narratives

By: Anamaria Falaus

£41.99

Tracing the nomadic lives of two exiled writers, this book redefines Romanian and American identity. It offers a crucial new context for Eastern European immigrant narratives.

In and Out

Eccentricity in Britain

Edited By: Sophie Aymes-Stokes, Laurent Mellet

£44.99

This book provides an overview of the critical history of eccentricity, a defining feature of the English character. It explores the eccentric’s paradoxical status as both outsider and insider, and the struggle to retain individuality against standardization.