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Social Jane

The Small, Secret Sociology of Jane Austen

By: Chris Wilkes

£44.99

Christopher Wilkes reveals the sociologist in Jane Austen. Exploring landscape, economics, and fashion, he argues that Austen was a brilliant analyst of the complex social hierarchies of her time.

Liminal Spaces

The Double Art of Carol Shields

By: Alex Ramon

£34.99

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of the work of Carol Shields. Arguing against enduring conceptions of Shields’s fiction as celebratory domestic miniaturism, the study presents her work as more expansive and equivocal than has sometimes been recognised, reading her texts as “liminal spaces” situated on a series of formal and thematic borders. Close attention is paid to Shields’s stylistic experimentation, to her subversions of auto/biography and historiography, and to the significance of her critical writing, while works which have previously received very little analysis, such as her early poetry…

Responsiveness to Comparison in Literature

By: Fatima Festić

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This book proposes a framework for rethinking world literature in nomadic terms. A unique, itinerant scholarly autobiography, it exemplifies how literary and cultural comparisons are shaped by real-life circumstances, violence, and wars across the globe.

Ghosts, Stories and Histories

Ghost Stories and Alternative Histories

Edited By: Sladja Blazan

£39.99

This collection reflects on ghost stories from the seventeenth century to our ghosts in the machine. Analyzing the ghostly figure in narratives from Daniel Defoe to Toni Morrison's Beloved, it shows how spectral vocabulary is finding its place in cultural theory.

This collection reflects on ghost stories from the seventeenth century to our ghosts in the machine. Analyzing the ghostly figure in narratives from Daniel Defoe to Toni Morrison’s Beloved, it shows how spectral vocabulary is finding its place in cultural theory.

Brief Forms in Medieval and Renaissance Hispanic Literature

Edited By: Alejandro Coroleu

£61.99

The studies gathered here engage in different ways with the ideas of André Jolles (1874–1946), whose Einfache Formen (“Simple Forms”) was first published in 1930. This anthology will be of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern Spanish, Catalan and Latin literature.

Critical Perspectives on Resistance in 21st-Century British Literature

Edited By: Nilay Erdem Ayyıldız

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This book is an intellectual journey through the critical perspectives on resistance in 21st-century British literature. It appeals to readers interested in cultural studies, literary studies, the humanities, and sociology, particularly resistance and discourse studies.

Ekphrasis in American Poetry

The Colonial Period to the 21st Century

Edited By: Sandra Lee Kleppe

£47.99

Providing a sample of the chronological range and stylistic variety of poetry that engages with visual art, this volume shows how ekphrasis has been a part of American poetry from its inception, and will be of interest to scholars of both literature and art.

Re-Embroidering the Robe

Faith, Myth and Literary Creation since 1850

Edited By: Suzanne Bray, Adrienne E. Gavin, Peter Merchant

£34.99

Since the mid-nineteenth century, writers have retold old myths with fresh messages or created new ones for traditional truths. The eighteen essays in this book examine this transforming artistry in literature from 1850 to the present day.

Transgressive Romanticism

Edited By: Larry H. Peer

£61.99

This edited text, gathering established scholars and newer academic voices, offers fresh perspectives on what Romanticism thought itself to be by suggesting spaces in Romanticism studies needing negotiation and elaboration.

The Weather in the Icelandic Sagas

The Enemy Without

By: Bernadine McCreesh

£58.99

The descriptions of the weather in medieval Icelandic sagas have long been considered unimportant, mere adjuncts to the action. McCreesh shows that this is not true, illustrating how medieval Icelandic attitudes to the weather often affect the portrayal of the hero.

Finding the Plot

Storytelling in Popular Fictions

Edited By: Loïc Artiago, Diana Holmes, David Platten

£49.99

Plot is basic to our experience, yet criticism has often passed it over. This book redresses this neglect, bringing together international scholars to explore the pleasures of consuming stories across a variety of media. How do plots work and why do they matter?

The Victorian Approach to Modernism in the Fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers

By: Aoife Leahy

£34.99

This book examines Dorothy L. Sayers’ attention to Victorian influences beyond Wilkie Collins, from John Ruskin to Oscar Wilde. It explores her questioning of the boundaries between “popular” and “serious” literature and her views on education.

Three Hundred Chinese Cut Verses, Ci and Sanqu with English Translations

By: Yongsheng Cheng

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This anthology includes three hundred Chinese metric verses exploring Chinese culture and the author’s personal life. All verses are written in Chinese with English translations and notes, making this collection ideal for readers interested in Chinese verse or culture at large.

Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous

Edited By: Janka Kaščáková, Janka Kaščăkovă

£39.99

The unifying factor of these essays is ambiguity. The volume explores this essential feature of the postmodern age—its definition, purpose, and historical use by writers—and its appearance not only in literature, but in wider social issues.

Incorporations of Chineseness

Hybridity, Bodies, and Chinese American Literature

By: Serena Fusco

£47.99

Through a repositioning of the Chinese component of Asian America in relation to modern transformations of Chinese identity, Fusco reads Asian American literature in relation to historical events and geopolitical changes that have informed the construction of “Chineseness”.

Titus out of Joint

Reading the Fragmented Titus Andronicus

Edited By: Paxton Hehmeyer, Liberty Stanavage

£34.99

Critics often see Titus Andronicus as a way station to better plays. This collection—the first in a decade—argues it deserves more, approaching the play as inherently dissonant through a wide variety of modern theoretical and critical perspectives.

The Whirlwind of Passion

New Critical Perspectives on William Shakespeare

Edited By: Petar Penda

£52.99

This collection of essays by distinguished scholars provides fresh insight into Shakespearean studies. It explores the Bard’s oeuvre through critical, performance, and comparative analyses, emphasizing the playwright’s relevance today.

Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time”

Critical Essays

Edited By: Lisa Regan

£39.99

This collection of critical essays sheds new light on Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding and a key figure of interwar Britain. It explores her novels, journalism, and passionate support for feminism, peace, and racial equality.

Feast or Famine? Food and Children’s Literature

Edited By: Bridget Carrington

£47.99

Food is central to children’s literature. This collection examines the uses of food in books from the nineteenth century to modern fantasy, showing how it reflects society and culture and is used by authors to instruct and deliver moral messages.

A Translation of Johannes Pauli’s Didactic Tales

Lessons from the Past for Our Future

By: Albrecht Classen

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In 1522, Johannes Pauli published the influential bestseller *Schimpf und Ernst*. These entertaining narratives offer teachings on human foolishness, virtues, and vices. This translation makes the majority of these tales available for the first time in the English language.