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Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s

Converging Realms

Edited By: Márcia Lemos

£61.99

This collection responds to the intense interest that the relations between the discourses of literature and those of science have obtained. It focuses on the cultural significance of scientific discoveries and practices and scientific representations in literature and the arts.

The Indigenous Voice of Poetomachia

The Various Perspectives of Textuality and Performance

Edited By: Sayan Dey, Robert Masterson

£61.99

In an era of struggling individuality, how can theatre stage individual voices? This collection of essays from scholars across the world explores different perspectives of textuality and performance, pushing beyond prevailing clichés with indigenous perspectives.

Signs of Identity

Literary Constructs and Discursive Practices

Edited By: Emilia Parpală

£61.99

This volume rethinks identity from a communicational and comparative perspective, linking it to performativity. Contributions cover diverse periods and genres, from Medieval clothing to postcolonial narratives, for all those involved in the reevaluation of this central term.

The Legacy of Empire

Napoleon I and III and the Anglo-Italian Circle during the Risorgimento

By: Sharon Worley

£61.99

The shadow of Napoleon’s empires haunted the nineteenth-century. In reaction, a unique Anglo-Italian style developed among ex-patriot writers and artists. Contrasting Napoleon's legacy with an ideal state, their work championed national independence, feminism, and republicanism.

The shadow of Napoleon’s empires haunted the nineteenth-century. In reaction, a unique Anglo-Italian style developed among ex-patriot writers and artists. Contrasting Napoleon’s legacy with an ideal state, their work championed national independence, feminism, and republicanism.

Sidney, Spenser and the Royal Reader

By: Shormishtha Panja

£61.99

Elizabeth I’s controversial marriage proposal angered courtiers Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser, who used their writing to express their dissent. This book interweaves history and literature to analyze the workings of gender, desire, politics, and poetics in her reign.

R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi Milieu

A Sensitive World of Grotesque Realism

By: Sravani Biswas

£61.99

This book presents R.K. Narayan as a writer who addressed his times without giving in to ruling ideologies. It explores his ethical critique of colonial capitalism and positions him as a deceptively simple, yet foremost post-modern writer who depicted the subversion of influence.

Myth, Music and Ritual

Approaches to Comparative Literature

Edited By: Gabriela Chiciudean, Rodica Gabriela Chira, Emilia Ivancu

£61.99

Divided into two, the essays here consider both myth and some of its contemporary reflections and the connection between myth, music and ritual. Subjects discussed include folklore, literature, traditional music, science-fiction, philosophy, and religion, among others.

Acculturation, Otherness, and Return in Adichie’s Americanah

Outside the Homeland

By: Soheila Arabian, Vida Rahiminezhad

£61.99

This title examines the concepts of diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013), investigating the novel through diasporic concepts such as self and Otherness, acculturation, cultural diversity, hybridity, ambivalence and mimicry, unbelonging and return.

The Ways of Fiction

New Essays on the Literary Cultures of the Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Nicholas J. Crowe

£61.99

The essays gathered here capture fresh perspectives on the literary environments of the eighteenth century, and are specifically concerned with how culture shapes literature and is in turn influenced by it.

Late-Victorian Heroic Lives in the Writings of Frank Mundell

By: Moniez Baptiste

£61.99

Baptiste explores the work of Frank Mundell, a late-Victorian author for the Sunday School Union. Mundell focused on heroism and represented various kinds of heroic deeds and figures, regardless of gender, in his books, and wrote for both educative and entertaining purposes.

Arthur Miller’s Century

Essays Celebrating the 100th Birthday of America’s Great Playwright

Edited By: Stephen Marino

£61.99

Arthur Miller was one of the 20th century's major dramatists and a significant cultural figure. This collection of essays by Miller scholars provides detailed discussions of his career, his most famous works like Death of a Salesman, and his role as a political figure.

Arthur Miller was one of the 20th century’s major dramatists and a significant cultural figure. This collection of essays by Miller scholars provides detailed discussions of his career, his most famous works like Death of a Salesman, and his role as a political figure.

Broadening Critical Boundaries in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

Edited By: Amie A. Doughty

£61.99

The contributions here explore a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult (YA) literature and culture, and include an examination of the Watchbird cartoons by Munro Leaf, the role of public youth librarians, and the use of popular video games in the secondary classroom.

Imagology Profiles

The Dynamics of National Imagery in Literature

Edited By: Laura Laurušaitė

£61.99

This volume expands the field of imagology with new critical analyses, introducing concepts like "geo-imagology" and linking the field to post-colonialism. Essays focus on shifting national and peripheral identities, gender, mobile imagery, and well-established stereotypes.

This volume expands the field of imagology with new critical analyses, introducing concepts like “geo-imagology” and linking the field to post-colonialism. Essays focus on shifting national and peripheral identities, gender, mobile imagery, and well-established stereotypes.

Alice Munro and the Anatomy of the Short Story

Edited By: Oriana Palusci

£61.99

This edited volume investigates Alice Munro’s art as a storyteller and the processes she performs on the contemporary short story genre in her creative anatomical theatre from a variety of different critical perspectives ranging from post-structuralism to cultural studies.

Raymond Queneau’s Dubliners

Bewildered by Excess of Love

By: James Patrick Gosling

From £30.99

An exploration of two comic, erotic, and feminist novels by Raymond Queneau set in Ireland. This book examines Joycean influences and a surreal version of the Dublin Uprising, solving puzzles to reveal *Les Œuvres completes de Sally Mara* as a subtly integrated literary work.

Transgressive Romanticism

Edited By: Larry H. Peer

£61.99

This edited text, gathering established scholars and newer academic voices, offers fresh perspectives on what Romanticism thought itself to be by suggesting spaces in Romanticism studies needing negotiation and elaboration.

The Representation of the Relationship between Center and Periphery in the Contemporary Novel

Edited By: Ruth Amar, Françoise Saquer-Sabin

£61.99

This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on social hybridity in contemporary novels. It explores the challenge of center and periphery, examining the dynamics of power, marginality, and space to shed new light on the contemporary novel as a whole.

Anna Seward’s Journal and Sermons

Edited By: Teresa Barnard

£61.99

Barnard restores the juvenile journal of Anna Seward, eighteenth-century poet, biographer, and letter-writer, to its original format, making the case for Seward’s importance as a social and cultural commentator.

Revolution, State Succession, International Treaties and the Diaoyu/Diaoyutai Islands

By: Tseng Hui-Yi

£61.99

This monograph draws on structural issues underlying the on-going dispute between China and Japan concerning the Diaoyu/Diaoyutai Islands, along with the concomitant, multifaceted challenges that need to be investigated, in order to provide insights into Sino-Japanese relations.

W.H. Auden’s “The Healing Fountain” Read through A. Aviram’s Theory of Poetic Rhythm

By: Boutheina Boughnim Laarif

£61.99

Auden, master of metre, remains a mystery. This book uses a revolutionary theory of poetic rhythm—placing rhythm before meaning—to unlock his formal art. It revives interest in Auden's poetry and his urgent questions: What is poetry? What is its use?

Auden, master of metre, remains a mystery. This book uses a revolutionary theory of poetic rhythm—placing rhythm before meaning—to unlock his formal art. It revives interest in Auden’s poetry and his urgent questions: What is poetry? What is its use?