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This study traces the picaresque from its Spanish roots to contemporary novels, arguing it has never left the British literary scene. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre for their own stories of displaced characters and modern-day rogues.
This study traces the picaresque from its Spanish roots to contemporary novels, arguing it has never left the British literary scene. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre for their own stories of displaced characters and modern-day rogues.
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The Body of the Postmodernist Narrator
Between Violence and Artistry
This book reads postmodern fiction through the bodies of its narrators. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminist theory, it explores trauma, murder, and desire, exposing the body as the site of repressed knowledge, resistance, and artistic resolution.
This book reads postmodern fiction through the bodies of its narrators. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminist theory, it explores trauma, murder, and desire, exposing the body as the site of repressed knowledge, resistance, and artistic resolution.
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This new approach to G. Eliot’s thought focuses on her profound religious and spiritual quest in Silas Marner. The author shows how Eliot distinguishes religion from superstition and offers a new definition of faith, stressing the qualities of her art.
This new approach to G. Eliot’s thought focuses on her profound religious and spiritual quest in Silas Marner. The author shows how Eliot distinguishes religion from superstition and offers a new definition of faith, stressing the qualities of her art.
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Irish Childhoods
Children’s Fiction and Irish History
This book explores how contemporary Irish children’s fiction engages with the past. It reveals how constructions of childhood in novels and films are used to explore complex questions of Irish history, culture, and identity.
This book explores how contemporary Irish children’s fiction engages with the past. It reveals how constructions of childhood in novels and films are used to explore complex questions of Irish history, culture, and identity.
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Beckett Re-Membered
After the Centenary
This collection of recent scholarship on Samuel Beckett offers a diverse and comprehensive survey of his literary and philosophical work. It will appeal to any reader interested in provocative responses to one of the 20th century’s most important writers.
This collection of recent scholarship on Samuel Beckett offers a diverse and comprehensive survey of his literary and philosophical work. It will appeal to any reader interested in provocative responses to one of the 20th century’s most important writers.
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This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region's literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer's role as a political activist.
This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region’s literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer’s role as a political activist.
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P. Papinius Statius Volume I
Thebaid and Achilleid
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive secondary apparatus for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive secondary apparatus for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.
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French Orientalism
Culture, Politics, and the Imagined Other
This volume challenges the canonic approach to French Orientalism. Broadening the scope of enquiry from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, it uses new theoretical perspectives to question, subvert, and resituate canonic theories and their global consequences.
This volume challenges the canonic approach to French Orientalism. Broadening the scope of enquiry from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, it uses new theoretical perspectives to question, subvert, and resituate canonic theories and their global consequences.
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P. Papinius Statius Volume II
Thebaid and Achilleid
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.
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This volume examines silence and excessive speech in contemporary novels. It explores how authors use silence not as absence, but as presence and resistance, while compulsive verbosity may hide more than it reveals, testing the limits of language.
This volume examines silence and excessive speech in contemporary novels. It explores how authors use silence not as absence, but as presence and resistance, while compulsive verbosity may hide more than it reveals, testing the limits of language.
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Making Up
Research in Creative Writing
Research in creative writing is not only about the works it produces, but the explorations a creative writer undertakes. Through creative writing, a writer can explore ideas, concepts, and states of mind. This collection shows what this growing field does and more.
Research in creative writing is not only about the works it produces, but the explorations a creative writer undertakes. Through creative writing, a writer can explore ideas, concepts, and states of mind. This collection shows what this growing field does and more.
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Florida Studies
Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association
This volume contains essays on Florida literature and history. The first section focuses on the college classroom, while "Old Florida" explores writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Jack Kerouac. The final section identifies the state’s place within larger traditions.
This volume contains essays on Florida literature and history. The first section focuses on the college classroom, while “Old Florida” explores writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Jack Kerouac. The final section identifies the state’s place within larger traditions.
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These essays examine the influence of Christian Latin literature upon the Latin and vernacular letters of the Iberian Peninsula (1480–1630). Contrary to most studies, this volume accommodates authors writing in Portuguese, Catalan, and Latin.
These essays examine the influence of Christian Latin literature upon the Latin and vernacular letters of the Iberian Peninsula (1480–1630). Contrary to most studies, this volume accommodates authors writing in Portuguese, Catalan, and Latin.
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Educating the ‘Unconstant Rabble’
Arguments for Educational Advancement and Reform during the English Civil War and Interregnum
The English Revolution was a revolution in reading. While the state sought to restrict access to potentially dangerous ideas, key thinkers argued for the opposite: extending education to equip the emerging ‘reading public’ to take an active part in political life.
The English Revolution was a revolution in reading. While the state sought to restrict access to potentially dangerous ideas, key thinkers argued for the opposite: extending education to equip the emerging ‘reading public’ to take an active part in political life.
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Canterbury
A Medieval City
Since becoming the religious heart of the country in AD 597, Canterbury's fame has endured. This book explores its history, from illustrious figures like Thomas Becket and Chaucer to the lesser-known people and events that shaped its identity.
Since becoming the religious heart of the country in AD 597, Canterbury’s fame has endured. This book explores its history, from illustrious figures like Thomas Becket and Chaucer to the lesser-known people and events that shaped its identity.
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Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel
A First Exploration into Commensurable Perspectives
This is the first book to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel with microhistory. This innovative volume brings together expert scholars to reveal how microhistory can shed new light on classic novels and their marginal protagonists.
This is the first book to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel with microhistory. This innovative volume brings together expert scholars to reveal how microhistory can shed new light on classic novels and their marginal protagonists.
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This volume discusses the critical views of Polish and Russian women writers from the 19th to 21st centuries. The articles explore constructions of femininity, trauma, body, and sexuality, tracing the parallels and differences in their work.
This volume discusses the critical views of Polish and Russian women writers from the 19th to 21st centuries. The articles explore constructions of femininity, trauma, body, and sexuality, tracing the parallels and differences in their work.
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Byron’s dubious status as an icon disguises that he is one of the greatest English poets. This book ignores his iconography and concentrates on his poems. Written by leading authorities, it puts his real achievement as a creative writer back into focus.
Byron’s dubious status as an icon disguises that he is one of the greatest English poets. This book ignores his iconography and concentrates on his poems. Written by leading authorities, it puts his real achievement as a creative writer back into focus.
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Text, Body and Indeterminacy
Doppelgänger Selves in Pater and Wilde
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.
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.
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Afroeurope@n Configurations
Readings and Projects
This volume explores the African presence across Europe, from Russia to the Canary Islands. These essays offer a wide spectrum of research on contemporary black literatures and identities, providing insights into previously little explored areas.
This volume explores the African presence across Europe, from Russia to the Canary Islands. These essays offer a wide spectrum of research on contemporary black literatures and identities, providing insights into previously little explored areas.
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