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Greek Dystopia in British Women Travellers’ Discourse

By: Dimitrios Kassis

£58.99

Kassis discusses British women travellers’ perceptions of Greece and the Orient from the late-eighteenth century until the late-Victorian era, exploring them in relation to the context that fuelled the conceptualisation of Greece as perilous to the British imperialist agenda.

Greek Lyric Poetry and Its Influence

Texts, Iconography, Music and Cinema

Edited By: Alejandro Cantarero de Salazar, Alicia Esteban Santos, Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado

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Composed 25 centuries ago, Greek lyric poems sing of everyday life, presenting a living portrait of the ancient Greeks. This multidisciplinary volume offers literary analyses, studies the poems' reflection in Greek art, and explores their connection to music and modern cinema.

Composed 25 centuries ago, Greek lyric poems sing of everyday life, presenting a living portrait of the ancient Greeks. This multidisciplinary volume offers literary analyses, studies the poems’ reflection in Greek art, and explores their connection to music and modern cinema.

Grendel Recast in John Gardner’s Novel and Beowulf

By: Sandra Hiortdahl

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This comprehensive study of John Gardner’s Grendel shows the novel to be much more than an ironic twist on Beowulf. It reveals three distinct fights that mirror the poem, solving mysteries that have stymied readers and assessing Grendel as a tragic hero.

Grotesque Anatomies

Menippean Satire since the Renaissance

By: David Musgrave

£44.99

This study defines Menippean satire as a literary version of the grotesque. Through revisionist readings of canonical works from Pope’s Dunciad to Eliot’s The Waste Land, it changes our understanding of them and traces the form to the present day.

Grotesque Revisited

Grotesque and Satire in the Post/Modern Literature of Central and Eastern Europe

Edited By: Laurynas Katkus

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the grotesque in modern Central and Eastern European writing, focusing on the Soviet era. Scholars analyze the relationship between the socio-political background and subversive literary representations of the grotesque.

Gynocritics and the Traversals of Women’s Writing

Intersections of Diverse Critical Essays

Edited By: Hemant Verma, Ajit Kumar, Rafseena M.

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This volume's scholarly articles use feminist approaches to re-read male-centered narratives, revealing how women's rights and roles have been historically undermined. The book offers a space for scholars to contribute to the development of a more egalitarian world.

This volume’s scholarly articles use feminist approaches to re-read male-centered narratives, revealing how women’s rights and roles have been historically undermined. The book offers a space for scholars to contribute to the development of a more egalitarian world.

H. G. Wells

Interdisciplinary Essays

Edited By: Steven McLean

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H. G. Wells is known for his ‘scientific romances,’ but he was a polymath. This collection of new essays examines his varied writings, from works like The Time Machine to lesser-known novels, assessing his lasting philosophical and political impact.

Halma by Benito Pérez Galdós

By: Robert S. Rudder

£41.99

An aristocratic lady, Halma, uses her inheritance to found a Christian society for the needy. Her family, believing she is as mad as the disgraced priest Nazarín whom she harbors, works to defeat her. A fortunate denouement comes from the priest himself.

Hamlet of Morningside Heights

By: Kenneth Craven

£34.99

Craven uncovers Apostle Paul's ethics hidden in Hamlet, a discovery that unlocks seismic shifts in American culture and illuminates his own quest for power.

Craven uncovers Apostle Paul’s ethics hidden in Hamlet, a discovery that unlocks seismic shifts in American culture and illuminates his own quest for power.

Hamlet’s Ghost

Vespasiano Gonzaga and his Ideal City

By: James Cowan

£47.99

Haunted by the mysterious deaths of two wives, Duke Vespasiano Gonzaga forged a new life by building Sabbioneta, the first ideal city. A true Renaissance man, his story reveals a fascinating link to Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the emergence of our modern consciousness.

Handmaids, Tributes, and Carers

Dystopian Females’ Roles and Goals

Edited By: Myrna Santos

£61.99

This book studies the role of female figures in dystopian narratives, from fiction to film, addressing how such characters, from all stages of life, are often critical to these narratives, positing females as particularly powerful heroines or catalysts to action.

Harry Potter’s World Wide Influence

Edited By: Diana Patterson

£44.99

This collection of essays contributes to Potter Studies, examining Rowling's work as a literary and cultural phenomenon. International scholars explore the books' popularity, their effects on readers, film adaptations, and philosophical considerations of good and evil.

This collection of essays contributes to Potter Studies, examining Rowling’s work as a literary and cultural phenomenon. International scholars explore the books’ popularity, their effects on readers, film adaptations, and philosophical considerations of good and evil.

Heinrich Böll and Ireland

By: Gisela Holfter

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Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll’s relationship with Ireland went far beyond his famous *Irish Journal*. This book charts his deep personal and literary connections, from his second home on Achill Island to his translations of Irish authors and the controversies he caused.

Helen Craik, Adelaide de Narbonne, with Memoirs of Charlotte de Cordet

Edited By: Marianna D’Ezio

£70.99

A unique hybrid of historical Gothic, this novel is set amid the sanguinary events of post-revolutionary France. It follows Countess Adelaide de Narbonne’s rebellion against male authority, connecting her story with that of Charlotte Corday, Marat’s murderer.

Henry Fielding In Our Time

Papers Presented at the Tercentenary Conference

Edited By: J. A. Downie

£39.99

Essays by leading scholars offer a cross-section of current approaches to Henry Fielding’s life and writings. This collection explores his famous novels, journalism, and social pamphlets, appealing to students, academics, and readers interested in the novel.

Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity

Edited By: Annick Duperray, Adrian Harding, Dennis Tredy

£44.99

This collection of essays by international scholars explores Henry James's use of duplicity—a key strategy in his arsenal of ambiguity. The essays examine duplicitous characters, subtexts, and self-representation in his fiction and non-fiction.

This collection of essays by international scholars explores Henry James’s use of duplicity—a key strategy in his arsenal of ambiguity. The essays examine duplicitous characters, subtexts, and self-representation in his fiction and non-fiction.

Henry James Today

Edited By: John Carlos Rowe

£41.99

This collection of essays focuses on the relevance of Henry James’s work for understanding current problems. Studies explore his influence on modernist and postmodern writers and his connections to visual and new media, revealing continuities between his era and our own.

Here, and Here

Essays on Affirmation and Tragic Awareness

By: Vasilis Papageorgiou

£34.99

These essays explore using logos without its negative, restricting aspects through affirmation and tragic awareness. It is all about arrangements that say yes, since they do not raise absolute boundaries. The arrangement is a logos without logos: a cosmos.

Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema

Edited By: Cornelius Crowley, Geetha Ganapathy-Doré

£61.99

Studying the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent, this collection questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past. It does this to address the conflicting comprehensions of the present and the figuring/imagining of a possible future.

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi

A Taste for Eccentricity

By: Marianna D’Ezio

£39.99

More than a hostess or a footnote to Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a pioneering writer. This volume links her subversive biography to her innovative works, revealing how a scandalous marriage launched her career as a public author.