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Writing the Other

Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England

Edited By: Mike Pincombe

£34.99

Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England explores the dynamic opposition between the "human" and the "barbarous." These essays reveal how the cultural Other was invented to forge identities, from England to North Africa and the New World.

Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England explores the dynamic opposition between the “human” and the “barbarous.” These essays reveal how the cultural Other was invented to forge identities, from England to North Africa and the New World.

A History of the Lie of Innocence in Literature

Sons Who Become Orphans

By: Rodney David Le Cudennec

£61.99

Tracing history of the “lie of innocence” as represented in literary texts from the late 18th century until today, Le Cudennec explores the relationship between fathers and sons, arguing that the shedding of paternal ties represents the possibility of an “innocence of becoming”.

Anatomy of Science Fiction

Edited By: Donald E. Morse

£29.99

This collection of essays connects science fiction to our increasingly science-fictional world, tackling major ethical and political issues. "Will find a market both among academics and... undergraduates." - Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University

This collection of essays connects science fiction to our increasingly science-fictional world, tackling major ethical and political issues. “Will find a market both among academics and… undergraduates.” – Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University

Calvino’s Combinational Creativity

Edited By: Elizabeth Scheiber

£41.99

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.

Foreign Correspondence

Edited By: Jan Borm

£47.99

This volume treats travel writing as "foreign correspondence," a concept oscillating between the private and the public. The essays offer readings of accounts by early modern and more recent travellers, revealing the complex cultural negotiations between them.

This volume treats travel writing as “foreign correspondence,” a concept oscillating between the private and the public. The essays offer readings of accounts by early modern and more recent travellers, revealing the complex cultural negotiations between them.

Cultural Transformations in the English-Speaking World

Edited By: Cécile Cottenet, Jean-Christophe Murat, Nathalie Vanfasse

£39.99

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.

Reconsidering the Origins of Recognition

New Perspectives on German Idealism

Edited By: John Van Houdt, Arthur Kok

£47.99

A new generation of researchers explores German idealism's central topic: recognition. Overcoming classical divisions, they offer critical re-readings of foundational texts, showing how this philosophy continues to inspire new generations of thinkers.

A new generation of researchers explores German idealism’s central topic: recognition. Overcoming classical divisions, they offer critical re-readings of foundational texts, showing how this philosophy continues to inspire new generations of thinkers.

Back and Forth

The Grotesque in the Play of Romantic Irony

By: Siddhartha Bose

£47.99

This book examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic aesthetics. It explores how writers from Schlegel to Baudelaire used Shakespeare's transgressive drama to re-evaluate beauty and create the ideas of post-Revolutionary modernity.

This book examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic aesthetics. It explores how writers from Schlegel to Baudelaire used Shakespeare’s transgressive drama to re-evaluate beauty and create the ideas of post-Revolutionary modernity.

In the Jaws of the Leviathan

Genocide Fiction and Film

By: Joya Uraizee

£24.99

How do we witness the unspeakable? This book analyzes portrayals of genocide in film and fiction from Africa, Asia, and South America. It contrasts the indirect metaphors of commercial media with the direct, personal gazes found in experimental works.

Re-Reading Richard Hoggart

Life, Literature, Language, Education

Edited By: Sue Owen

£34.99

Richard Hoggart put the working class on the cultural map. The first critic to take popular culture seriously, he founded Cultural Studies and was a key witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. This volume explores his life and significant role in cultural shifts.

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.

Dino Buzzati and Anglo-American Culture

The Re-use of Visual and Narrative Texts in his Fantastic Fiction

By: Valentina Polcini

£44.99

This book investigates Dino Buzzati’s relationship with Anglo-American culture, showing that he was an original reworker of literary motifs. It offers new insights into his fiction’s playful side and reassesses him as a master of fantastic literature.

Outraged and Amazed

Transgressing the South in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!

By: Joel Peckham

£58.99

Outraged and Amazed explores how Absalom, Absalom!’s characters resist social limits and wrest control of their identities through storytelling, resulting in a tangled, plausible but unverifiable story of the South that is both fictive and true.

Restless Travellers

Quests for Identity across European and American Time and Space

Edited By: Antonio José Miralles Pérez

£39.99

This book explores literature of travel and identity. From Britain's imperial age to North America, it examines writers who narrate journeys into distant lands, the female self, and the quest for belonging in the face of empire, race, and migration.

This book explores literature of travel and identity. From Britain’s imperial age to North America, it examines writers who narrate journeys into distant lands, the female self, and the quest for belonging in the face of empire, race, and migration.

Love Letters and the Romantic Novel during the Napoleonic Wars

By: Sharon Worley

£45.99

This book’s study of the love letters and romantic novels of the Napoleonic coterie reveals the emerging political landscape of the Napoleonic war period through extended metaphors of love and patriotism. It describes how these letters were largely framed by concepts of love.

Fabricating the Body

Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse

Edited By: Sarah Himsel Burcon

£39.99

Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on "indebted" bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.

Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on “indebted” bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.

In the Mirror of the Past

Of Fantasy and History

Edited By: Tomasz Ratajczak, Bogdan Trocha

£39.99

Confronted by overwhelming events, we turn to myth. These essays discuss myth in modern speculative fiction, showing how fantasy becomes a mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions or a reality superior to our own.

Byron, Napoleon, J.C. Hobhouse, and the Hundred Days

By: Peter Cochran

£52.99

Observing Napoleon’s march from Elba to his defeat at Waterloo was Byron’s friend J.C. Hobhouse. This book presents an essay on Byron and Napoleon, Byron’s poems, and Hobhouse’s letters and mostly unpublished diary from the thick of things in Paris.

Psychoanalysis in Context

Edited By: Alvin Henry

£39.99

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.

The Indigenous Voice of Poetomachia

The Various Perspectives of Textuality and Performance

Edited By: Sayan Dey, Robert Masterson

£61.99

In an era of struggling individuality, how can theatre stage individual voices? This collection of essays from scholars across the world explores different perspectives of textuality and performance, pushing beyond prevailing clichés with indigenous perspectives.