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Nineteenth-Century France in Motion

Edited By: Loïc Guyon, Andrew Watts

£44.99

The nineteenth century was an age of movement. This volume explores the political, artistic, and social shifts that defined France as a society in perpetual motion, confronting its own extremes of progress and renewal, stagnancy and regression.

Exploring Creative Writing

Voices from the Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference

Edited By: Graeme Harper

£41.99

This volume offers a collection of articles based on presentations given in recent years at the annual Great Writing International Creative Writing conference. Creative writers included here are drawn from around the world, including the USA, Australia, Korea, and Finland.

Rethinking the Vanguard

Aesthetic and Political Positions in the Modernist Debate, 1917-1962

By: John W. Maerhofer

£39.99

This study re-interprets the historical avant-garde from 1917 to 1962, focusing on the convergence of aesthetics and politics. From the Bolshevik Revolution to decolonizing movements, it reveals the vanguard's transformation and its relevance today.

Emblems of Adversity

Essays on the Aesthetics of Politics in W. B. Yeats and Others

By: Rached Khalifa

£39.99

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.

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.

Jane Austen’s Emma

A Close Reading Companion, Volume I

By: Kenneth R. Morefield

£41.99

Combining an academic’s knowledge with a fan’s enthusiasm, this chapter-by-chapter companion to Jane Austen's Emma offers lucid and surprising interpretations that will illuminate the novel for first-time and experienced readers alike.

Combining an academic’s knowledge with a fan’s enthusiasm, this chapter-by-chapter companion to Jane Austen’s Emma offers lucid and surprising interpretations that will illuminate the novel for first-time and experienced readers alike.

Topicality and Representation

Islam and Muslims in two Renaissance Plays

By: Hammood Khalid Obaid

£44.99

This book explores how topical concerns shaped Islamic figures in Elizabethan plays like Peele’s Battle of Alcazar and Percy’s Mahomet and his Heaven. It argues these characters were formed by contemporary issues, rendering the term ‘representation’ debatable.

Diasporic Identities within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts

Edited By: Yaw Agawu-Kakraba, Komla F. Aggor

£41.99

This volume explores identity formation in Afro-Hispanic and African contexts, re-contextualizing diaspora beyond debates of voluntary migration versus traumatic exile. Essays cover countries like Cuba, Spain, and Angola, and themes from religion to politics.

English Narrative Poetry

A Babel of Voices

By: Özlem Görey

£58.99

This book explores how poets have manipulated voice in English narrative poetry. Journeying from the Renaissance to the contemporary, from Shakespeare to Bernardine Evaristo, it reveals how a babel of voices can represent real life by mimicking the voices of women and men.

Toward a Linguistic and Literary Revision of Cultural Paradigms

Common and/or Alien

Edited By: Ettore Finazzi-Agrò

£61.99

This publication considers the great divides between identity and otherness in order to recover a sense of cultural identity which is at once polymorphous and polyphonic.

L’écriture du bonheur dans le roman contemporain

Edited By: Ruth Amar

£39.99

In a world of technology and efficiency, what has become of Happiness? Does it still feature in contemporary fiction? This volume explores the paradoxes and changing forms of Happiness in the novel, from the Holocaust to consumerism and postmodernism.

The Figure of the Shaman in Contemporary British Poetry

By: Shamsad Mortuza

£44.99

This study locates five contemporary British poets in a counter-cultural tradition responding to state power. From Celtic druids to Thatcherism, these shamanic poets use ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy’ to wrest spirituality from religion and politics.

Weaving New Perspectives Together

Some Reflections on Literary Studies

Edited By: María Alonso Alonso, Jeannette Bello Mota, Alba de Béjar Muíños

£39.99

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.

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke

By: Harry Eiss

£44.99

Richard Dadd is a trickster, an Elizabethan Puck in a Victorian insane asylum. His existence foreshadows the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, entering the fragmented shards of today’s world long before the artists who would try to map it.

A Reader’s Guide to the Narrative and Lyric Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

By: Rodney Edgecombe

£57.99

This study focuses on the lyric and narrative verse of a problematic poet who might have served as a missing link between Keats and Tennyson, an area which is under-represented in current scholarship on Beddoes.

“Don’t Disturb my Masterpiece!”

Towards an Ecology of Learning

By: Paolo Palmieri

£44.99

This book explores a humanistic philosophy of learning where rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum. It proposes a holistic model that values learners' genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.

This book explores a humanistic philosophy of learning where rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum. It proposes a holistic model that values learners’ genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.

Authority of Expression in Early Modern England

Edited By: Nely Keinänen, Maria Saleniu

£39.99

Scholars explore the relationship between authority and the self in writers like Shakespeare and Donne. In an era of momentous change, these essays offer new perspectives on how power was negotiated through sexuality, gender, and language in the English Renaissance.

Esther Tusquets

Scholarly Correspondences

Edited By: Nina L. Molinaro, Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva

£44.99

This volume reviews the life and work of Spanish writer Esther Tusquets (1936–2012). The essays contained offer new readings of the author’s canonical fiction and delve into the largely unexplored terrain of her non-fiction.

American Literary-Political Engagements

From Poe to James

By: William M. Etter

£39.99

From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era's most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.

From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era’s most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.

Postcolonialism

South/African Perspectives

Edited By: Michael Chapman

£29.99

Can literature recenter postcolonial studies? Through a South African lens, these essays move beyond theory to the subjective power of literary texts, challenging us to see our interconnected worlds anew.

Elements of the Picaresque in Contemporary British Fiction

By: Ion Piso, Ligia Tomoiagă

£39.99

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.