Victorian Murderesses
Bulamur investigates the politics of female violence in four novels of the Victorian period, demonstrating how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology and tackling the question of female agency.
The first scholarly analysis to focus on the novels of the critically acclaimed Scottish writer Louise Welsh, this study explores the image of the labyrinth as one of the sites for horror in classic Gothic literature and its rewriting into 21st century Scotland.
This edited collection examines the various ways combinatory processes influence the work of the Italian author Italo Calvino. Comprising chapters by six literary scholars, it asserts that the Ligurian writer’s creativity often stems from his contemplation of literature.
Literature and Geography
Space has now replaced time as the main category of literary analysis, and is considered to be a central metaphor and topos. As such, this book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies.
Alphonse de Lamartine’s prose-poem The Stonemason of Saint Point is the story of a peasant’s life, love and faith in the hills of Burgundy. In reality, it describes Lamartine’s own search for God through threatening and godless times in his country.
A New Theory of Mind
This book presents a unique way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that the “urge” to think narratively reflects known neurological processes and enables us to transcend our evolutionary limits and shape our own futures.
Despite efforts by ethnographic museums to acknowledge contemporary cultural practices and aesthetic expressions, this book reveals how the institution of the museum as such continues to be haunted by its previous, restrictive ideas of the other while talking about the self.
Englishness and Post-imperial Space
Milton Sarkar investigates the English mind-set immediately after British withdrawal from the colonies, and examines how the loss of power and global prestige affected the poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes, who returned to archetypal English customs and conventions.
Interface between Literature and Science
This volume explores the permeable boundaries between science and literature in Latin American narrative. It uses a cross-disciplinary approach to offer new readings of authors like Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, and Ernesto Sábato.
Home and Away
The first contribution to literary juvenilia studies in the past decade, this volume theorises the current state of this field and exemplifies it in action, showing the importance of the familiar world of home and the territory of adulthood to the imaginations of young authors.
Laughter and War
This book explores the impact of World War One in four countries, and breaks new ground by exploring this through the medium of what their respective populations laughed at, investigating four humorous-satirical magazines of the period.
Dante and Milton
This anthology explores synchronic and diachronic constructions of Dante Alighieri and John Milton as culturally produced icons, deeply engrained in the world’s cultural memory, offering a perspective that goes beyond merely national contexts.
Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development
Representing presentations given at the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, the chapters here discuss issues related to second language acquisition, teaching and teacher education in a variety of contexts from around the world.
This journal brings together current research on emotional intelligence, an important factor in the development of emotional competency and cognition. It represents a useful resource for teachers, researchers and students of adolescent psychology, and for mental health workers.
Traditional Chinese Rites and Rituals provides an overview of important social practices. While explaining how these rites are performed, it also introduces the reasons why norms are followed, offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on Chinese culture.
In the first single-authored monograph on Roald Dahl since 1994, Valle focuses on the critical context, texts and paratexts that make up the packaging of “Dahl”, and offers the first thorough overview of the criticism and the language employed to discuss Dahl since the 1970s.
An Ethics of Reading
Sandra Cox considers how writers of contemporary American fiction represent collective identities by producing literature that bears witness to cultural traumas, and situates novels that explore ethnic identity in conversation with one another.
William Bellamy examines the newly re-discovered anagrams that lie hidden in all Shakespearean texts, and explains the essential role played by these concealed figures in Classical and Renaissance poetry, using a range of examples, including Othello, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night.
The Power of Culture
This edited collection, comprising mainly Chinese academics and students, focuses upon the role of culture in Sino-American affairs, showing how cultural factors are enormously significant in affecting how Chinese and Americans think about and approach each other.
Oscar Wilde’s Elegant Republic
Using Oscar Wilde as a connecting thread, this monograph navigates the question of Paris’ popularity as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century. It uses French, English and American sources to offer an exploration of both the city and its communities.