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Nabokov’s Palace

The American Novels

By: Márta Pellérdi

£34.99

Nabokov’s Palace discovers the sub-texts and inter-textual patterns in his American novels making them an integral part of the Anglo-American literary tradition, revealing his "otherworld" of art and communion with dead poets.

Transatlantic Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Julie A. Chappell, Kamille Stone Stanton

£34.99

In an era defined by writers like William Blake and Olaudah Equiano, this collection proves the anti-slavery movement was no single-authored sensation, but a broader transatlantic discourse spanning the entire long eighteenth century.

South Asia and its Others

Reading the “Exotic”

Edited By: Atreyee Phukan, V.G. Julie Rajan

£34.99

These essays reveal how writers of South Asian descent use "exoticization" as a strategic tool. They critically examine casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence, uncovering the ambiguity that continues to mark marginalized identities today.

These essays reveal how writers of South Asian descent use “exoticization” as a strategic tool. They critically examine casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence, uncovering the ambiguity that continues to mark marginalized identities today.

Conrad’s Destructive Element

The Metaphysical World-View Unifying Lord Jim

By: Kenneth B. Newell

£34.99

This new interpretation of Lord Jim uses Conrad's manuscript to reveal the novel as a unified whole. It refutes critics by showing how one metaphysical question gives the story a fixed pattern of meaning from beginning to end, just as Conrad claimed.

This new interpretation of Lord Jim uses Conrad’s manuscript to reveal the novel as a unified whole. It refutes critics by showing how one metaphysical question gives the story a fixed pattern of meaning from beginning to end, just as Conrad claimed.

Rethinking the Humanities

Paths and Challenges

Edited By: Ricardo Gil Soeiro, Sofia Tavares

£34.99

Rethinking the Humanities reflects on the challenges facing the humanities in an era of globalization. Drawing on diverse perspectives, this volume surpasses the dominant rhetoric of crisis to open new fields of debate and offer innovative perspectives.

Metaphoric Resonance in Shakespearean Tragedy

By: Myron Stagman

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Before Shakespeare, prefigurement and echo were not unknown. But the vast echoism—continuing forward and backward references—utilized in his tragedies was rare. Through metaphoric resonance, he revealed meanings lost without it. Who, even now, does this?

Margaret Storm Jameson

Writing in Dialogue

Edited By: Jennifer Birkett, Chiara Briganti

£34.99

Storm Jameson’s writing mirrored the 20th century. This first collection of essays devoted to her work reassesses her pivotal role, analysing her engagement with war, fascism, and socialism, and reveals a sequence of unpublished letters.

Shakespeare and His Collaborators over the Centuries

Edited By: Pavel Drábek, Klára Kolinská, Matthew Nicholls

£34.99

This book explores the cultural notion of “Shakespeare.” His collaborators are not only his contemporaries but all who give his works new life as plays, films, and novels, collaborating in both a literal and figurative sense.

Making the Stage

Essays on the Changing Concept of Theatre, Drama, and Performance

Edited By: Ann C. Hall

£34.99

In an increasingly technological and isolated culture, theatre seems a primitive art form. Yet these essays reveal that theatre not only survives but defines the vital political discussions prohibited by a manipulated media.

The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas

Edited By: Brenda M. Greene

£34.99

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the persistence of African cultural traditions in the Americas. Scholars explore how people of the African diaspora used literature, music, dance, and religion to survive and resist colonialism and racism.

Titus out of Joint

Reading the Fragmented Titus Andronicus

Edited By: Paxton Hehmeyer, Liberty Stanavage

£34.99

Critics often see Titus Andronicus as a way station to better plays. This collection—the first in a decade—argues it deserves more, approaching the play as inherently dissonant through a wide variety of modern theoretical and critical perspectives.

The Ethical Component in Experimental British Fiction since the 1960’s

Edited By: Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega

£34.99

Challenging the view that only realist texts are ethical, this volume argues that the parodic and self-conscious games of experimental fiction offer a powerful critique of received truths, practicing an ethics of alterity. It examines key British novels.

Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in French and Francophone Literature

Edited By: Aaron Emmitte, Melanie Hackney

£34.99

Uncover the provocative history of sexuality, eroticism, and gender in French & Francophone literature. From Zola’s challenge to rape to the feminism of Djebar, this book reveals a literary tradition long engaged with redefining desire.

“This Shipwreck of Fragments”

Historical Memory, Imaginary Identities, and Postcolonial Geography in Caribbean Culture and Literature

Edited By: Li-Chun Hsiao

£34.99

This book examines Caribbean cultural identities beyond the popular perception of hybridity. Drawing on literature and music from the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean, it reveals troubled pasts and current problems eclipsed by the "tropical getaway" myth.

Shakespeare’s Double-Dealing Comedies

Deciphering the “Problem Plays”

By: Myron Stagman

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Are Shakespeare’s pure heroines secretly obscene? Is Henry V’s barbarism a hilarious parody? This book argues that when the Bard seems inept, he’s at his most subversive. Rethink what you know and discover the hidden satire in his greatest works.

Third Agents

Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination

Edited By: Ian Cooper, Ekkehard Knörer, Bernhard Malkmus

£34.99

This book explores the 'third agent'—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.

This book explores the ‘third agent’—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.

Ferocious Things

Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women’s Melancholia

By: Cathleen Therese Maslen

£34.99

It’s fatal making a fuss ... . In Ferocious Things, Cathleen Maslen shows how Jean Rhys’s inscription of feminine anguish is a literary transgression. Rhys defies cultural interdictions, and her work poses vital questions for feminist and post-colonial debates.

It’s fatal making a fuss … .
In Ferocious Things, Cathleen Maslen shows how Jean Rhys’s inscription of feminine anguish is a literary transgression. Rhys defies cultural interdictions, and her work poses vital questions for feminist and post-colonial debates.

Beckett’s Literary Legacies

Edited By: Matthew Feldman, Mark Nixon

£34.99

This is the first volume to chart Samuel Beckett’s truly global influence. From Coetzee to DeLillo, commentators explore how his revolutionary art presents a profound challenge and liberation to authors, pushing at the very boundaries of literature.

Emerald Green

An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature

By: Tim Wenzell

£34.99

Emerald Green is an ecocritical study of Irish literature's reverence for the natural world. It examines writers from ancient hermit poets to modern naturalists, exploring how Ireland’s landscape—shaped by famine, loss, and rebirth—defines its literature.

Emerald Green is an ecocritical study of Irish literature’s reverence for the natural world. It examines writers from ancient hermit poets to modern naturalists, exploring how Ireland’s landscape—shaped by famine, loss, and rebirth—defines its literature.

Arthur W. Upfield

Life and Times of Bony's Man

By: A. J. Milnor

£34.99

Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective "Bony," rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.

Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective “Bony,” rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.