This volume explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s connection to Europe, revealing how French culture shaped his achievements. It explains his influence on writers like Proust and Calvino and why he remained an admired model for Europeans.
The X-Files and Literature
This collection explores The X-Files’ rich adaptation of literature to find the truth. It unveils connections to Gothic writers and delves into unexpected sources like the Arthurian quest, making you a smarter, better reader of this landmark series.
Drawing on psychoanalysis, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the contributors examine how the circulation of psychoanalysis across time and place reflects and shapes literature, offering fresh insights into their shared literary history.
A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises
A vibrant snapshot of English Studies today. These essays on literature, film, gender, and media celebrate global culture in a tribute to the inspiring teaching of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente.
Emblems of Adversity
These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats’s poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.
Taking a Hard Look
This volume takes a hard look at the creative intersection of gender and visual culture. It explores how visual culture is gendered and questions debilitating role models, creating a dialogue with international theory from a South perspective.
These essays on Canadian, Australian and New Zealand literatures consider texts and authors within the post-colonial paradigm, focusing on diasporic writing, national consciousness, and prominent authors like Margaret Atwood.
This book tackles cultural transformations across the English-speaking world in literature, painting, architecture, photography and film. It provides readers with tools to decipher these dynamic phenomena and understand the new life they infuse into cultures.
Author of Illusions
Pericles brought about the downfall of the Athenian empire. This truth was obscured by Thucydides, who reinvented the Peloponnesian War to absolve Pericles. This book examines how one man created a myth that has lasted millennia, unquestioned by scholars.
This book contributes to the debate on economic stabilisation in developing countries affected by exchange rate volatility and high inflation. It provides a review of the literature and extends analytical models to test their relevance for policymakers.
Weaving New Perspectives Together
This novel, interdisciplinary overview of literary interpretation features contributions from early-career and senior scholars. The compilation is designed to inspire students and guide experts by posing new questions to stimulate future research in the field.
Romance
This book proposes a fascinating journey into the history and geography of the popular and controversial romance genre. From its origins to its latest developments, from print to film and Facebook, explore its many shapes from North America to India.
Who Defines Me
Identity is unstable, constructed by variables like ethnicity, race, gender, and culture. Who Defines Me is an interdisciplinary study exploring this negotiation through language and literature, with a focus on Arabs, Muslims, and racial identity in America.
Technology is reshaping imagination itself. The essays in this volume explore the thrilling intersection of the digital and the creative as it transforms modern film, fiction, and art.
Florida Studies
This volume contains essays on Florida literature and history. Sections explore pedagogy; Old Florida texts from the 1540s-1950s, including evaluations of Hurston and Rawlings; and contemporary Florida’s place in larger cultural traditions.
Henry Fielding In Our Time
Essays by leading scholars offer a cross-section of current approaches to Henry Fielding’s life and writings. This collection explores his famous novels, journalism, and social pamphlets, appealing to students, academics, and readers interested in the novel.
Limerick Constitutional Nationalism, 1898-1918
This analysis of Limerick politics from 1898-1918 asks if they were driven by local or national concerns. It concludes that politics were intensely local, with greater continuities than ruptures in the composition and behaviour of political elites.
Byron and Bob
Byron’s most important literary relationship was with Robert Southey, whom he hated and to whom he “dedicated” his masterpiece, *Don Juan*. This book argues Byron’s literary distaste became a projected self-distrust, a dislike for his own flaws.
Empowerment versus Oppression
Are women readers oppressed by patriarchal romance narratives, or empowered by them? Building on early critics, these selections add new perspectives, examining diverse subtypes and featuring unique voices from international readers, novelists, and critics.
This collection of essays examines poetic and narrative responses to exile. It features works from rarely studied parts of the world, including Armenia, Egypt, and Tibet, exploring feelings of loss, memories of trauma, and the search for identity.