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Telling Tales

Storytelling in Contemporary Spain

Edited By: Anne L. Walsh

£52.99

This volume explores how stories in Spanish fiction and film shape the nation's identity. Examining the impact of events like the Civil War and Franco's dictatorship, it reveals the close bond between real-world events and fictional stories.

This volume explores how stories in Spanish fiction and film shape the nation’s identity. Examining the impact of events like the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship, it reveals the close bond between real-world events and fictional stories.

Fathers in Victorian Fiction

Edited By: Natalie McKnight

£39.99

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in Victorian authors' lives and fiction. They explored conflicting expectations of fatherhood, yielding memorable portrayals and asking a question still relevant today: What makes a good father?

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in Victorian authors’ lives and fiction. They explored conflicting expectations of fatherhood, yielding memorable portrayals and asking a question still relevant today: What makes a good father?

On the Turn

The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English

Edited By: Bárbara Arizti, Silvia Martínez-Falquina

£44.99

This diverse, challenging collection of essays explores the 'ethical turn' in literary studies. Scholars analyze the connections between ethics and fiction, tackling complex topics like race, gender, and the politics of representation. Essential reading.

This diverse, challenging collection of essays explores the ‘ethical turn’ in literary studies. Scholars analyze the connections between ethics and fiction, tackling complex topics like race, gender, and the politics of representation. Essential reading.

Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan

Honing the Hybridity of the Graphic Novel

By: DJ Dycus

£39.99

This book examines Chris Ware, a preeminent comics creator who fortifies and expands the genre. It analyzes comics in relation to literature and film before focusing on his magnum opus, Jimmy Corrigan, contextualizing it alongside other prominent figures.

Parallaxes

Virginia Woolf Meets James Joyce

Edited By: Marco Canani, Sara Sullam

£44.99

Despite being major Modernists, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are seldom studied together. This volume fills that void, using the concept of parallax to provide new perspectives on the connections between their respective work and their difficult encounter.

Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things

By: Richard Allen Shoaf

£41.99

This book reveals Shakespeare as an early modern materialist inspired by Lucretius. In chapters on six important plays, it demonstrates how he writes an “atomic” poetry of joining and splitting language to explore the art of nature and the nature of art.

Towards or Back to Human Values? Spiritual and Moral Dimensions of Contemporary Fantasy

Edited By: Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Marek Oziewicz

£34.99

Fantasy literature is a provocation. Against the dominant skepticism of the age, it points to hope and trust. This collection of essays explores how fantasy brings spiritual and moral values back to the center, rekindling the hope of finding meaning.

Masquerade and Femininity

Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers

Edited By: Urszula Chowaniec, Ursula Phillips, Marja Rytkönen

£34.99

These essays on Russian and Polish women writers explore femininity through the lens of masquerade. They scrutinize the gap between lived female experience and the culturally constructed masks women wear, combining East European literary and gender studies.

On Violence in the Work of J.H. Prynne

By: Matthew Hall

£47.99

An accessible and comprehensive analysis of J.H. Prynne, a leading figure in contemporary poetry. This study analyses the nexus between Prynne’s political thought and linguistic innovation, providing a crucial pathway into his most challenging and complex volumes.

Wretched Refuge

Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern

Edited By: Jessica Datema, Diane Krumrey

£34.99

This book reimagines the immigrant experience as part of a larger motif: the postmodern itinerant. As a figure of displacement and dispersion, the itinerant suggests a cosmopolitan response to anxieties about global hegemony in works by Diaz, Lahiri, and others.

Beautiful China

By: Lina Unali

£41.99

Unali discusses the centuries-old familiarity between Europe and China, exploring European nations’ admiration for the distant Asian country, and their attempt at capturing the meaning of its ancient culture and language.

New Beginnings in Literary Studies

Edited By: Willie van Peer

£44.99

This volume shows there is much more to analysing literature than traditional studies. It demonstrates, in non-technical language, how diverse perspectives from psychology to computer science can offer new insights into literary texts, their readers, and effects.

As Time Goes By

Portraits of Age

Edited By: Joy Charnley, Caroline Verdier

£49.99

This volume provides literary analyses of ageing through writers from Cervantes to Cixous. Exploring universal themes, these essays offer portraits of what age is, has been, and might be, demonstrating literature's power to reflect social trends.

Mnemosyne and Mars

Artistic and Cultural Representations of Twentieth-century Europe at War

Edited By: Manuel Bragança, Dominique Jeannerod, Peter Tame

£49.99

Explore the enduring cultural legacy of war through its powerful representation in literature, film, theatre, and music.

Modern Sonneteers, Hilary Mantel, and Critical Letters

A Triptych

By: Ethan Lewis

From £30.99

This series of critiques explores three literary forums. "Modern Sonneteers" shows that the sonnet thrives still. "Homage to Hilary Mantel" offers new analyses of the pre-eminent novelist. "Critical Letters" gathers pensees on literature written during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This series of critiques explores three literary forums. “Modern Sonneteers” shows that the sonnet thrives still. “Homage to Hilary Mantel” offers new analyses of the pre-eminent novelist. “Critical Letters” gathers pensees on literature written during the COVID-19 pandemic.

James Joyce and After

Writer and Time

Edited By: Katarzyna Bazarnik, Bożena Kucała

£39.99

This volume of essays examines time in literature, from the modernist revolution initiated by Joyce to the present. It offers new readings of Joyce’s work and explores subjective time in writers like Coetzee and collective experience in post-9/11 fiction.

Byron and the Best of Poets

By: Nicholas Gayle

£52.99

This comparative exploration of Bryon and Pope’s satirical portraits of men and women, their expression of love and forbidden passion, and their various poetic techniques shows the profound influence Pope had on the deepest recesses of Byron’s poetic thought.

Knowledge Dissemination in the Long Nineteenth Century

European and Transatlantic Perspectives

Edited By: Marina Dossena, Stefano Rosso

£47.99

Offering insights into various under-explored phenomena, the studies here deal with literary, cultural and linguistic history in Europe and the US during the nineteenth century, focusing particularly on the numerous advances made during that period.

Women’s Identities and Bodies in Colonial and Postcolonial History and Literature

Edited By: Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

£34.99

This collection examines women’s identities and bodies through literary and historical accounts. Using the colonial past to analyze contemporary issues, it explores the female body as a site of abuse and discrimination, but also of knowledge and cultural production.

Middlebrow Satire in the Works of P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton and Nancy Mitford

By: Daniel Buckingham

From £32.99

Scholars claim satire is too aggressive to persuade. But what if they’re looking in the wrong places? This study finds genuine satiric impact in the middlebrow delight of P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton, and Nancy Mitford, commercially driven writers who defended their work.