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“Toubab La!” Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora

By: Ginette Curry

£39.99

This study examines mixed-race characters in literature from the African diaspora across the US, Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. It analyzes the different ways multiracial characters look at the world, how the world looks at them, and their constant search for identity.

Antipodean Childhoods

Growing Up in Australia and New Zealand

Edited By: Helga Ramsey-Kurz, Ulla Ratheiser

£39.99

These essays explore childhood, otherness, and the postcolonial in Australia and New Zealand. They examine how adults configure children’s spaces through art, literature, and history, focusing on the cultural specificity of Antipodean childhoods.

Identity, Nation, Discourse

Latin American Women Writers and Artists

Edited By: Claire Taylor

£39.99

This volume explores women’s literary production in Latin America and how their works engage with identity, nationhood, and gender. Prominent scholars examine how women writers carve out space within national discourses and critically re-work literary genres.

Gaining a Face

The Romanticism of C.S. Lewis

By: James Prothero, Donald T. Williams

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This study traces the aspects of Lewis’s romantic thought as it is drawn from MacDonald, Wordsworth and other influences, and details how, beyond his fascination with joy, Lewis constructed a consistent romantic vision that allowed for a balance with reason.

Contingencies and Masterly Fictions

Countertextuality in Dickens, Contemporary Fiction and Theory

By: Lauren Watson

£39.99

This book establishes deconstructive dialogues between Dickens's novels, contemporary literature, and post-structuralist theory. This countertextual reading exposes instability in writing, but also in racial and gender identities, developing a new poetics of theory.

This book establishes deconstructive dialogues between Dickens’s novels, contemporary literature, and post-structuralist theory. This countertextual reading exposes instability in writing, but also in racial and gender identities, developing a new poetics of theory.

Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: Gabrielle Malcolm, Kelli Marshall

£39.99

Where is Shakespeare in the 21st century? In global cinema, graphic novels, sci-fi television, and Jewish revenge films. This collection assesses the active world of Shakespearean adaptation, considering where he is now and where his works might be going.

The Face of the Other in Anglo-American Literature

Edited By: Marija Knežević

£39.99

Has 20th-century theory failed us? In a world of resurgent bigotry, this book seeks new phenomenological ways to understand the Other.

In Search of the Medieval Voice

Expressions of Identity in the Middle Ages

Edited By: Lorna Bleach, Katariina Närä, Sian Prosser

£39.99

This collection of articles is an intriguing way of looking at medieval identity. Reaching beyond literature, this book examines the authorial and pictorial voice, the voice of national identity, and even the physical attributes a medieval voice may have had.

Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature

Edited By: Scott M. Powers

£39.99

This collection offers an international perspective on evil in contemporary French literature. Essays explore how authors give account of human catastrophes—from genocide to terrorism—investigating the origins of evil and the ethics of writing on suffering.

James Joyce and After

Writer and Time

Edited By: Katarzyna Bazarnik, Bożena Kucała

£39.99

This volume of essays examines time in literature, from the modernist revolution initiated by Joyce to the present. It offers new readings of Joyce’s work and explores subjective time in writers like Coetzee and collective experience in post-9/11 fiction.

The Influence of Mikhail Bakhtin on the Formation and Development of the Yale School of Deconstruction

By: Julio Peiró Sempere

£39.99

This book explores the origins of American literary deconstruction through the work of Mikhail M. Bakhtin. By comparing Bakhtin to the Yale School, it offers a new point of departure for one of the most influential movements in literary theory.

Science and American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries

From Henry Adams to John Adams

Edited By: Frédéric Dumas, Ronan Ludot-Vlasak, Claire Maniez

£39.99

This book explores the uneasy relationship between American literature and science. It examines how scientific discourse informs literary writing, from the history of science and neurosciences to the ethics of progress and the influence of digital technology.

Politics, Poetics, Affect

Re-visioning César Vallejo

Edited By: Stephen M. Hart

£39.99

This book re-visions the life and work of Peruvian poet César Vallejo. Ten essays are grouped into sections on Politics, Poetics and Affect, exploring his rivalry with Neruda, the role of the human body in his work, and his lasting influence.

Visions and Revisions

The Word and the Text

Edited By: Roger Kojecký, Andrew Tate

£39.99

Literary texts draw on other texts and ideas to communicate. This book offers new ways to understand the creations of writers like William Blake, Salman Rushdie, and Hilary Mantel, exploring their labours with form and affinities to the Western spiritual tradition.

Churchill’s Socialism

Political Resistance in the Plays of Caryl Churchill

By: Siân Adiseshiah

£39.99

While Caryl Churchill is celebrated, her socialism has been overlooked in favour of gender and postmodern themes. This book examines eight of her plays, reframing her work within socialist discourses to produce persuasive political readings of her drama.

Postcolonial Odysseys

Derek Walcott’s Voyages of Homecoming

By: Maeve Tynan

£39.99

This study charts Derek Walcott's postcolonial voyage through Homer's *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.

This study charts Derek Walcott’s postcolonial voyage through Homer’s *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.

An American Voltaire

Essays in Memory of J. Patrick Lee

Edited By: E. Joe Johnson, Byron R. Wells

£39.99

This collection of essays honors Voltaire scholar J. Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by prominent international scholars on French eighteenth-century studies, covering topics from Voltaire and censorship to satire, opera, art, and the Enlightenment.

Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing

Edited By: Paul Salzman

£39.99

This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing introduces little-known writers and offers new critical strategies. The authors explore diverse genres, integrating literary history with religion, legal issues, and genre questions.

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.

Investigating Arthur Upfield

A Centenary Collection of Critical Essays

Edited By: Carol Hetherington, Kees de Hoog

£39.99

This collection of critical essays by international scholars and novelists like Tony Hillerman celebrates Arthur Upfield, creator of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. The essays assess his place in the annals of crime fiction and Australian cultural history.