History

This book offers an alternative to intertextuality as influence and appropriation. Grounded in the lived experience of reading, it focuses on the expansion of experience created by telling and retelling stories, which inhabit us and enrich our responses.

This collection of essays examines overlooked women novelists of the interwar period. The essays discuss how they used comic structures to critique the dominant patriarchal structures of their time, offering alternative, subversive views of the world.

This book forges a new path with Islamic postcolonialism, using a Muslim perspective to challenge colonial legacies in Western writing. It explores the construction of Muslim identity in fiction by Kureishi, Ali, Aboulela, and Rushdie.

This volume explores the impact of Hellenistic Greek epigram on Latin erotic elegy in light of new papyrus discoveries. Chapters examine the reception of epigrams in Propertius and Ovid and the appropriation of their thematic and structural motifs.

This collection of essays cast new light on some surprisingly neglected areas of Dickens’s writings, namely the rites of passage represented by such transitional moments and ceremonies as birth/christenings, weddings/marriages, and death.

This book traces an overall picture of the literature born from the Great War. Focused on Italy, but rich in European references, it is a journey through history and the human soul, between hopes and fears, from the eve of war to the trenches and the return home.