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Latin Elegy and Hellenistic Epigram

A Tale of Two Genres at Rome

Edited By: Alison Keith

£34.99

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.

Negritude

Legacy and Present Relevance

Edited By: Isabelle Constant, Kahiudi C. Mabana

£39.99

Is Negritude a relic of the colonial era? This collection shows its continued vitality. African & Caribbean writers demonstrate how, beyond race, Negritude remains a relevant poetic, philosophical, and cultural force in its modern forms.

Mobilizing Narratives

Narrating Injustices of (Im)Mobility

Edited By: Hager Ben Driss

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In a world defined by forced migration, who is free to move and who is not? This volume uncovers the injustices of (im)mobility—driven by war, climate change, and inequality—as powerfully represented in literary texts.

Pope, the Odyssey and the Ontology of Language

By: Nicholas Gayle

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This study examines Pope's translation of the Odyssey through Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology. It explores the poems' figurative language to uncover a withdrawn reality, contrasting it with a sensual world of shimmering objects from the quotidian to the bizarre.

This study examines Pope’s translation of the Odyssey through Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology. It explores the poems’ figurative language to uncover a withdrawn reality, contrasting it with a sensual world of shimmering objects from the quotidian to the bizarre.

Text, Body and Indeterminacy

Doppelgänger Selves in Pater and Wilde

By: Anna Budziak

£39.99

This book forges a link between the philosophical self and the literary character. Using neo-pragmatist thought, it assesses Pater and Wilde’s characters, contrasting the textual self with the somatic to reveal the ethical gains of a self rooted in the body.

Metropolis and Experience

Defoe, Dickens, Joyce

By: Hye-Joon Yoon

£44.99

Reading Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce through Benjamin’s concepts of experience (Erlebnis and Erfahrung), this book traces the novel's critique of urban modernity from Defoe's narration of lived experience to Joyce's exuberant, joyous excess.

Reading Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce through Benjamin’s concepts of experience (Erlebnis and Erfahrung), this book traces the novel’s critique of urban modernity from Defoe’s narration of lived experience to Joyce’s exuberant, joyous excess.

Entanglement and Entropy in Claire Messud’s Novels

Edited By: Sandra Singer

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These essays explore Claire Messud’s fiction and its complex narration of cosmopolitan entanglements. Foci include emigrant identities, 1960s Pop Art, and 9/11 trauma. This collection also provides an interview with the author.

Exploring Space

Spatial Notions in Cultural, Literary and Language Studies; Volume 1

Edited By: Andrzej Ciuk, Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska

£49.99

This two-volume collection offers a comprehensive insight into how the category of space can inform original philological research. The first volume covers cultural and literary studies, while the second refers to English language studies.

Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing

Edited By: Paul Salzman

£39.99

This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing introduces little-known writers and offers new critical strategies. The authors explore diverse genres, integrating literary history with religion, legal issues, and genre questions.

Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace

Edited By: Mary De Jong, Earl Yarington

£44.99

This collection of essays places women writers in the center of the 19th-century literary marketplace. It showcases how authors like Stowe, Alcott, and Southworth met consumer desires and mastered a burgeoning and anything but genteel industry.

Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature

Edited By: Tao Dongfeng, Rosemary Roberts, Yang Xiaobin

£44.99

This volume explores the revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature from various angles, including feminism, sexuality, and history. Scrutinizing its complex legacy, revolution is viewed as neither a progressive force nor a simple tragedy.

Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: Gabrielle Malcolm, Kelli Marshall

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Where is Shakespeare in the 21st century? In global cinema, graphic novels, sci-fi television, and Jewish revenge films. This collection assesses the active world of Shakespearean adaptation, considering where he is now and where his works might be going.

Margaret Atwood’s Apocalypses

Edited By: Karma Waltonen

£41.99

Margaret Atwood’s Apocalypses features essays on Atwood’s poetry, The Handmaid’s Tale, and the MaddAddam trilogy. The collection traces the theme of apocalypse through her work using lenses like disability studies, theology, and ecofeminism.

Cultural and Literary Traditions in India

History, Myth and Orality

Edited By: Prakash Chandra Pradhan, Devender Kumar, Arti Nirmal, Sandip Paul

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Indian myth is a living force. This book traces the interplay of history and orality from The Ramayana to diverse folk traditions, revealing how ancient narratives of power, gender, and identity illuminate contemporary conflicts and crises.

Women and Trauma in the Works of Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai

By: Naadiya Yaqoob Mir

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This book analyzes feminist trauma fiction, exploring how authors like Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai detail the trauma women experience in a prejudiced world. It expands awareness of traumatic memory and warns that trauma gets reproduced if left unattended.

Representations of the Local in the Postmillennial Novel

New Voices from the Margins

Edited By: Milena Kaličanin, Soňa Šnircová

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This book maps a rich variety of voices from the margins of our globalized world. Through contemporary novels by international authors, it explores the rising tension between global and local identities for those overshadowed by the intense pressure of globalization.

Literature against Paralysis in Joyce and His Counterparts

The Other Dubliners

Edited By: Márcia Lemos

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Dublin has inspired many literary masters, including James Joyce. This collection of essays on Irish writers analyses how their literature disrupts paralysis and entropy, making sense of our human “chaosmos” by juxtaposing local and universal concerns.

In the Shadows of Albania-China Relations (1960-1978)

By: Enver Bytyçi

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This book details the unique 20th-century alliance between small Albania and giant China. Based on specific interests, this relationship unfolded from initial optimism to sworn animosity, cracking when China established a new affinity with the USA.

The Cultural Exchange History of Ancient Currency between China and Other Countries

By: Jianbing Dai, Luqian Peng, Xiaorong Chen

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This book surveys Chinese ancient currency through the ages, exploring the history of currency exchange between China and other countries like ancient Greece and Rome. It considers the influence of Chinese currency on Asia and its interaction with European and American coins.

Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns

Essays on Fiction and Culture

Edited By: Penny Gay, Judith Johnston

£34.99

Essays by international scholars explore Victorian writers like Dickens and Eliot in their cultural context. The collection then examines NeoVictorian returns in contemporary literature and film, revealing the era's ongoing dialogue with the modern world.