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Sufism as Lorna Goodison’s Alternative Poetic Path to Hope and Healing

By: Brenda Domínguez-Rosado

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Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison's poetry uses Sufism to heal the trauma of the Middle Passage. This book examines how she applies Sufi ideals to a Caribbean context, showing how its message resonates with Jamaican-based religions and creates a new literary canon.

Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison’s poetry uses Sufism to heal the trauma of the Middle Passage. This book examines how she applies Sufi ideals to a Caribbean context, showing how its message resonates with Jamaican-based religions and creates a new literary canon.

Images of Irishness in Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature

By: Dimitrios Kassis

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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.

Urban Monstrosities

Perversity and Upheaval in the Unreal City

Edited By: Joseph Lamperez, Ali McGhee

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The contributors here show how artists and writers across the past two hundred years figure the monster as a barometer of changing urban patterns. Here, monstrosity becomes the herald of embryonic social forms and marginalized populations in portrayals of cities across media.

Literature’s Contributions to Scientific Knowledge

How Novels Explored New Ideas about Human Nature

By: Dario Maestripieri

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Interdisciplinary scholarship holds the promise of the unification of all knowledge. Through its wide-ranging analysis, this volume demonstrates, ¬in a careful and original manner, how literary fiction has contributed to the scientific understanding of human nature.

Transmedia Storytelling

Pemberley Digital’s Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley

By: Jennifer Camden, Kate Faber Oestreich

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This book charts Pemberley Digital’s transmedia adaptations of classic literature, interrogating their relationship with consumer culture. While appearing feminist, their narratives expose anxieties about unstable gender roles and financial vulnerability in the digital age.

British Children’s Adventure Novels in the Web of Colonialism

By: Nilay Erdem Ayyıldız

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Ayyıldız fills a remarkable void in literary studies which has escaped the attention of many researchers. Her work interrogates the extent to which nineteenth-century children’s adventure novels justify and perpetuate the British Imperialist ideology of the period.

China Beyond the Binary

Race, Gender, and the Use of Story

Edited By: Gong Qiangwei, Kate Rose

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This book brings together Ancient Chinese stories, great novels, and modern online literature. It is a magic combination of stories and academic studies, with ideas from writers from different backgrounds, forming a picture of China and its relationship with other cultures.

Writings on Caribbean History, Literature, Art and Culture

One Love

Edited By: Irline François

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This book discusses the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists and literary scholars explore in their narratives a historical process embedded in the violence seared in their pasts and their present, drawing attention to the way history shapes their memories.

Race Theory and Literature

Dissemination, Criticism, Intersections

Edited By: Pauline Moret-Jankus, Adam J. Toth

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This volume explores the unique interplay between literature and racial theories from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Spanning diverse genres and traditions, it features reflections on authors such as Kafka, Kleist, Voltaire, and Coleridge.

Proceedings of the First International Colin Wilson Conference

Edited By: Colin Stanley

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This volume contains papers from a conference marking the 60th anniversary of Colin Wilson's famous book, The Outsider. Experts, scholars and fans gathered to present papers on topics ranging from Existentialism to the Occult and from H.P. Lovecraft to Jack the Ripper.

This volume contains papers from a conference marking the 60th anniversary of Colin Wilson’s famous book, The Outsider. Experts, scholars and fans gathered to present papers on topics ranging from Existentialism to the Occult and from H.P. Lovecraft to Jack the Ripper.

Edward Thomas’s Roads from Arras

Edited By: Adrian Grafe, Andrew McKeown

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This celebratory centenary volume edited by two of the leading poetry specialists in Europe, sheds new light on Edward Thomas and the roads his poems have travelled, a century after his death at the Battle of Arras on 9th April 1917.

Critiquing the Postcolonial Construct in Chinua Achebe’s Novels

By: Ranjana Das Sarkhel

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Das Sarkhel explores how Achebe’s novels articulate his knowledge of his own people and the manner in which he participates in the politics of representation, showing that he critiques the postcolonial methodology, and provides an alternative narrative of such an experience.

Fictional Portrayals of Spain’s Transition to Democracy

Transitional Fantasies

By: Anne L. Walsh

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Walsh looks at a selection of narratives published in Spain during the transition to democracy and compares them with more recent publications. She notes how fiction brings an extra dimension to the recreation of the past, by adding imagination to historical fact.

Emerging Perspectives on Alobwed’Epie

Edited By: Sarah Anyang Agbor, Manyaka Toko Djockoua, Stephen Ambe Mforteh

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This collection explores the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. It highlights that gender equality, ethnicity, religion, tradition, modernity and linguistic affinities are recurrent in many contemporary national literatures.

The Unknowable in Literature and Material Culture

Essays in Honour of Clive Thomson

Edited By: Margot Irvine, Jeremy Worth

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How do we come to know the hidden, unspoken, and “unknowable”? Inspired by this question, the contributors to this volume explore fin de siècle homosexuality, Émile Zola as a seeker of concealed truths, crises of representation, and the dialogue between self and other.

Greek Dystopia in British Women Travellers’ Discourse

By: Dimitrios Kassis

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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.

Close Readings of Jane Austen’s Emma, Volume II

Edited By: Kenneth R. Morefield

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This volume continues the series project of providing interpretations of selected novels through analyses of each of its chapters. It provides in-depth explications of Austen’s text in order to illustrate its thematic complexity and model the practice of close reading.

Reading Othello as Catholic Tragedy

By: Greg Maillet

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This book builds upon recent analysis of Shakespeare’s Othello, in order to show how the discourse of religion might affect our understanding of this play. It specifically looks at how Catholicism, a contested topic in Shakespeare’s world, affects our understanding of Desdemona.

Diaspora Poetics in South Asian English Writings

Edited By: Eeshan Ali, Md. Rakibul Islam

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This volume brings together various discussions on various South Asian Diaspora writers of diverse sociopolitical backgrounds. It provides perspectives drawn from border studies, philosophical studies, and regional issues of South Asia.

On Shakespeare in Sonnets

A Study in the Theory and Practice of Reader Response Criticism

By: E. L. Risden

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This text discusses the history and practice of Reader Response criticism and comprises a collection of thirty-eight sonnets responding both critically and creatively to Shakespeare’s works, showing that the creative and the critical need not be separate, exclusive acts.