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Power in Politics and Academia in Jonathan Coe’s Novels

By: Denisa Dumitrascu

£64.99

Dumitrașcu explores the intricate manifestations of contemporary power and the “resistance” and reaction to the dominant discourse in Jonathan Coe’s political fiction, covering the dismantling of the British social-democratic consensus, up to the new ideology of “Globalism.”

Precarity in Culture

Precarious Lives, Uncertain Futures

Edited By: Elisabetta Marino, Bootheina Majoul

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By inviting scholars from different disciplines to apply multiple critical lenses, this volume explores the different facets of our precarious world, providing insights into the challenges of our possible futures.

Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Edited By: Andrea Duranti, Matteo Tuveri

£57.99

This compilation of essays is a major addition to Beauvoirian studies with up-to-date research. It offers a multifaceted overview on the “state of the art” of work on the life and works of de Beauvoir, 30 years after her demise.

Prospects and Impediments of Feminist Monolithism

Re-Reading Mid-Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry

By: Rosalyn Mutia

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This book reads poetry by British, American, and Sub-Saharan women to argue for feminist monolithism. It finds remarkable consistency in themes of resisting oppression across geographical divides, proposing this as a stable ground for unity without ignoring their differences.

Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff

Intersectionality and Sexual Modernity

By: Kaisa Ilmonen

£61.99

Ilmonen highlights Jamaican-American author Michelle Cliff’s literary rebellion against the colonial, gendered and racist norms of Western Modernity. She also considers myths, rites, and cultural memory as sites of healing in the midst of colonial bodily politics.

Questioning the Eco-Ethics of Future Colonialism and Terraforming of Mars

Tracing the Crises

By: Seher Özsert

£66.99

Can we escape an apocalypse on Earth by terraforming another planet? Using Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy, this book argues this is simply the future of colonization, dooming us to repeat our mistakes. It reveals that our economic systems are the root of these catastrophes.

Quintessential Wilde

His Worldly Place, His Penetrating Philosophy and His Influential Aestheticism

Edited By: Annette M. Magid

£62.99

Celebrating Oscar Wilde’s genius, this book explores a variety of subjects, including his travels, sexuality, novels, homosexuality, influence on others and morality. It offers historical, biographical, psychological and sociological perspectives written by international experts.

Racial, Ethnic, Gender and Class Representations in Margaret Laurence’s Writings

By: Andreea Topor-Constantin

£44.99

This study analyzes Margaret Laurence's work as an entity, exploring representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Covering her fiction and non-fiction, it gives voice to the marginal to challenge readers’ perceptions.

This study analyzes Margaret Laurence’s work as an entity, exploring representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Covering her fiction and non-fiction, it gives voice to the marginal to challenge readers’ perceptions.

Re-examining Arthur Conan Doyle

Edited By: Nils Clausson

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This collection re-examines the work and life of Arthur Conan Doyle from multiple perspectives. It considers overlooked aspects of his oeuvre, offering fresh perspectives on his fiction and his relationship to contemporary writers and movements.

Reception Studies and Adaptation

A Focus on Italy

Edited By: Giulia Magazzù, Valentina Rossi, Angela Sileo

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This volume explores the Italian adaptation of English literary, multimedia, and audiovisual texts. It investigates how translation choices, by imprinting "Italianness" on the original, can alter a work's meaning and success, directing or even undermining audience reception.

This volume explores the Italian adaptation of English literary, multimedia, and audiovisual texts. It investigates how translation choices, by imprinting “Italianness” on the original, can alter a work’s meaning and success, directing or even undermining audience reception.

Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History

African American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature in the Twentieth Century

Edited By: Marie Drews, Verena Theile

£44.99

This collection of essays examines how African American and Afro-Caribbean women writers reclaim home, motherhood, and history. Through their female characters, they create more inclusive concepts of community, gender, and history.

Reconstructing Female Sexuality and Deconstructing Male Anxiety

Black Hole or Living Hall?

By: Gizem Serdar Ömür

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Challenging patriarchal narratives, this study explores the symbolism of female genitalia in literature and myth. It celebrates female procreational power, positioning the reproductive body as an enduring gateway between animate and inanimate realms—both alluring and repelling.

Recovering History through Fact and Fiction

Forgotten Lives

Edited By: Dallas John Baker, Donna Lee Brien, Nike Sulway

£58.99

This collection reclaims the histories of figures forgotten by time and offers fresh perspectives on those distorted by fame, including Mary Shelley, Judy Garland, and J.R.R. Tolkien. It provides a needed snapshot of new research on biography and its many variations.

Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism

Edited By: Sebnem Toplu, Şebnem Toplu

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Twenty-first century crises demand a re-evaluation of modernism and postmodernism. This collection of essays by international scholars offers new perspectives on literature, film, art, and politics, navigating debates beyond the traditional dichotomy.

Reflections on / of Dickens

Edited By: Ewa Kujawska-Lis, Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska

£49.99

This collection of essays explores how scholars, critics, and artists have reflected upon and re-imagined Charles Dickens’s texts. It offers a vast array of interdisciplinary approaches—from gender studies to film—attesting to his global appeal.

Representations of Childhood in Art and Literature

Edited By: Kanak Kanti Bera, Anindita Bhaumik, Krishanu Maiti

From £38.99

This book rejects the idea of childhood as an unambiguous monolith. It explores the constantly evolving term’s literary, artistic, and cultural representations, offering critical approaches to its treatment with all its complexities in art and literature.

Representations of Illness in Literature and Film

By: Bennett Kravitz

£34.99

This book examines how syndromes, disorders, and diseases appear in modern literature and film. Rather than being portrayed as a handicap, limitation becomes the hero, allowing previous outcasts into the mainstream to affirm their moral worth, skill and intelligence.

Representations of the Local in the Postmillennial Novel

New Voices from the Margins

Edited By: Milena Kaličanin, Soňa Šnircová

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This book maps a rich variety of voices from the margins of our globalized world. Through contemporary novels by international authors, it explores the rising tension between global and local identities for those overshadowed by the intense pressure of globalization.

Representing Minorities

Studies in Literature and Criticism

Edited By: Soumia Boutkhil, Larbi Touaf

From £17.99

This book counters the rampant uniformisation of cultures by championing the right to difference. It explores how minor literatures and suppressed voices can emerge to demand recognition, underscoring the necessity of cultural diversity in a world of consensus.

Responsiveness to Comparison in Literature

By: Fatima Festić

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This book proposes a framework for rethinking world literature in nomadic terms. A unique, itinerant scholarly autobiography, it exemplifies how literary and cultural comparisons are shaped by real-life circumstances, violence, and wars across the globe.