This book examines the diverse literature and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. Scholars and writers explore its unique context across fiction, poetry, and filmmaking, bringing Indigenous histories to the foreground and encouraging international dialogue.
This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing, mirroring the region’s turbulent changes. It explores divergent and often contradictory views on the region’s path to reconciling its unique heritage with a European identity.
Patriarchy in Eclipse
This book examines two types of women in post-Civil War literature and art: the femme fatale and the New Woman. It explores how they challenged patriarchal culture and why they precipitated so much intellectual and artistic angst in their educated male readers.
Which Face of Witch
Once a feared figure on the edge of society, the witch has been reclaimed by women as a feminist icon. This study investigates how contemporary British writers like Iris Murdoch, Jeanette Winterson, and Angela Carter interpret this ancient figure in creative ways.
Studies in Philology
This volume offers a holistic view of Philology, showing the thin line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies. It is a miscellanea of studies on Modern Language research, focusing on Spanish, English and French.
Perspectives
Essays on Romantic, Victorian, and Modern literature, from Blake and Keats to Yeats. Marked by originality and simplicity, the discussion is as lucid and expository as it is deep and scholarly, making it accessible to non-specialist and academic readers.
This collection of critical essays explores the intersection of gender and diaspora in Indian literature. Drawing on feminist and queer studies, it examines the predicament of belonging and identity, showcasing the range and depth of the Indian diaspora.
In a world of deepening conflict, what is solidarity today? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the concept from philosophical, social, political, and artistic perspectives, exploring its relation to memory and inspiring readers to help victims of exclusion.
Science, Gender and History
This study offers fresh readings of Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, comparing Frankenstein and The Last Man with The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake to reveal an ongoing critique of oppressive science, gender ideologies, and environmental ruin.
Bachelors, Bastards, and Nomadic Masculinity
This book is a thematic exploration of bachelors and bastards in the literary works of Guy de Maupassant and André Gide. It examines illegitimacy, “Counterfeit” characters, and the concept of “nomadic masculinity” during a period of great socio-legal change.
Leading scholars offer a fresh, thought-provoking examination of Byzantium in Late Antiquity and beyond. This multi-disciplinary volume presents innovative research on the interaction between the Empire’s core and periphery, and relations between Romans and Barbarians.
Writers with roots in Africa navigate new terrains and racialized identities in Europe. Through vibrant literature, they redefine identity and imagine the contours of a diverse, inclusive Europe, reckoning with its colonial history and its legacy.
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.
Enforcing and Eluding Censorship
How is censorship enforced and eluded? This volume explores the different ways of censorship in the Italian and Anglo-American worlds, from institutional control and discourse regulation to textual and ideological manipulation that provide a biased view of reality.
Bridges, Borders and Bodies
This book investigates South Asian women’s fiction, where protagonists’ identity negotiations are read as transgressions. Using postcolonial and feminist criticism, it explores narratives addressing the ambivalent tensions of diaspora and patriarchy.
Rewriting Wrongs
The palimpsest, a reused artifact bearing traces of its past, is a fertile metaphor for crime fiction. This collection of essays explores its various manifestations in French crime fiction, where detective discovery often involves rewriting criminal or historical events.
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.
Who Defines Me
Identity is unstable, constructed by variables like ethnicity, race, gender, and culture. Who Defines Me is an interdisciplinary study exploring this negotiation through language and literature, with a focus on Arabs, Muslims, and racial identity in America.
A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises
A vibrant snapshot of English Studies today. These essays on literature, film, gender, and media celebrate global culture in a tribute to the inspiring teaching of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente.
Esther Tusquets
This volume reviews the life and work of Spanish writer Esther Tusquets (1936–2012). The essays contained offer new readings of the author’s canonical fiction and delve into the largely unexplored terrain of her non-fiction.
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