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Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War

The Formats of British Commemorative Fiction

By: Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż

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This analysis of British war memorials in literature and film shows how they create diverse interpretations of the Great War, from the futility myth to the imperial sublime. At its heart is a core conflict: condemning a war while honouring the men who fought in it.

Winterson Narrating Time and Space

Edited By: Mine Özyurt Kılıç, Margaret J-M Sönmez

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This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson's works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.

This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson’s works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.

Metamorphosis and Place

Edited By: Mohamed Bakari, Joshua Parker, Lucie Tunkrova

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How do our identities and values change as places themselves are transformed? This collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines, each shedding light on how place is both a transforming subject and a transformed object.

Boundaries

Edited By: Jenni Ramone, Gemma Twitchen

£39.99

This collection offers creative and critical responses to making, breaking, and negotiating boundaries. A startling reassessment of its subject, it erases the borders between the critical, the creative, and the cultural with passion and precision.

Legilimens!

Perspectives in Harry Potter Studies

Edited By: Christopher E. Bell

£39.99

Legilimens is the spell to see into another’s mind. This collection brings together anthropologists, theologians, historians, and rhetoricians to see into the Harry Potter texts, deliberating over the greater scholarly significance of these rich works.

Poland’s Angry Romantic

Two Poems and a Play by Juliusz Słowacki

Edited By: Peter Cochran, Bill Johnston, Mirosława Modrzewska

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Juliusz Słowacki is one of Poland’s most important writers, but little known in the West. This much-needed introduction contains his popular play Balladina, his meditative poem Agamemnon’s Tomb, and his hilarious mock-epic Beniowski.

The Gothic Byron

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£39.99

The Gothic Byron argues that the Gothic element in Byron’s work has been undervalued. It explores his reading of Gothic novels, the Gothic in his own tales and poetry, and his profound influence on writers like Charlotte and Emily Brontë.

Mary Shelley

Her Circle and Her Contemporaries

Edited By: L. Adam Meckler, Lucy Morrison

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This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the Romantic age. Her texts converse with those of her family and contemporaries, including her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, illuminating the contexts in which they were composed.

Poetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance

Four Essays on Ágnes Nemes Nagy

By: Agnes Lehoczky

£39.99

The first study in English of modernist Hungarian poet Ágnes Nemes Nagy. Through close readings of her poetry and prose, this book explores the relation between language, trauma, and memory, drawing parallels with thinkers like Rilke and Beckett.

The Black Musketeer

Reevaluating Alexandre Dumas within the Francophone World

Edited By: Eric Martone

£39.99

Alexandre Dumas, grandson of a slave, has become a symbol in France's debates on colonial history, race, and identity. This is the first major work to re-evaluate his life and legacy, providing new ways of interpreting his classics in a francophone context.

Alexandre Dumas, grandson of a slave, has become a symbol in France’s debates on colonial history, race, and identity. This is the first major work to re-evaluate his life and legacy, providing new ways of interpreting his classics in a francophone context.

Redefining Literary Semiotics

Edited By: Jørgen Dines Johansen, Christina Ljungberg, Harri Veivo

£39.99

This volume marks a shift in literary semiotics toward methodological pluralism. As the sharp lines of division between dominant approaches dissolve, contributors highlight the communicative functions and representational possibilities of literary texts.

In the Mirror of the Past

Of Fantasy and History

Edited By: Tomasz Ratajczak, Bogdan Trocha

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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.

Orthodoxy, Modernity, and Authenticity

The Reception of Ernest Renan's "Life of Jesus" in Russia

By: Heather Bailey

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This book explores the Russian reception of Ernest Renan’s *Life of Jesus*. Renan's work had lasting appeal because it presented an alternative to both a strictly materialist worldview and an Orthodox one, allowing readers to accept modernity while retaining religious feeling.

This book explores the Russian reception of Ernest Renan’s *Life of Jesus*. Renan’s work had lasting appeal because it presented an alternative to both a strictly materialist worldview and an Orthodox one, allowing readers to accept modernity while retaining religious feeling.

Autour de l’extrême littéraire

Edited By: Alastair Hemmens, Russell Williams

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This book explores how French writing, from the Middle Ages to the present, has interrogated extremity. These essays reveal why the extreme—which shocks, excites, and horrifies us—has always fascinated the French literary imagination.

Positioning Daniel Defoe’s Non-Fiction

Form, Function, Genre

Edited By: Aino Mäkikalli, Andreas K. E. Mueller

£39.99

This volume analyses Daniel Defoe's non-fictional works. Moving away from his much studied novels, these essays explore the rhetorical strategies and generic inventiveness on display, revealing an author of outstanding skill and energy.

This volume analyses Daniel Defoe’s non-fictional works. Moving away from his much studied novels, these essays explore the rhetorical strategies and generic inventiveness on display, revealing an author of outstanding skill and energy.

Travel and Travellers from Bede to Dampier

Edited By: Geraldine Barnes with Gabrielle Singleton

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These essays track travel narratives from the eighth to the eighteenth century. Their voyages, from the literal to the spiritual, show the enduring influence of the medieval geographical imagination upon post-medieval travel, discovery, and encounters between East and West.

L’écriture du bonheur dans le roman contemporain

Edited By: Ruth Amar

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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.

Authority of Expression in Early Modern England

Edited By: Nely Keinänen, Maria Saleniu

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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.

Charles Dickens and Europe

Edited By: Maxime Leroy

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Charles Dickens is a British literary icon, but should he be read as a European author? This book explores his relationship to Europe through his travels, the continental locations in his novels, and the influence of his works on other European texts.

Northrop Frye in Context

By: Diane Dubois

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Diane Dubois situates Northrop Frye’s work in its biographical and historical context. Illuminating his œuvre as a personal project rooted in the social and religious conditions of his time, this book helps us see the key theorist's work anew.