Sociology

The femme fatale of 19th-century poetry symbolises an intractable mystery and a refusal to be defined. This book interrogates the fatal woman motif in poems by Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Rossetti and Swinburne, enriched by visual art and cultural background.

The division between secure centres and unknown peripheries is obsolete. How can we find our way in a world where peripheries become centres and centres turn into peripheries? This book explores how this problem is dealt with in literature and culture.

How do we address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world? Scholars of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent voices, renewing this conversation and taking it in exciting new directions for future generations caught in a struggle with nuclear legacies.

This collection of articles explores the transfer of ideas in British and American cultures. Analyzing cultural texts from fiction to film, these essays document shifting definitions of identity, gender, and nationality across various genres, media, and disciplines.

This book investigates the explosion of women’s writing in post-socialist Russia, Central and Eastern Europe. It explores why this writing has become so prominent, whether writers see their gender as a burden or empowering, and its links to nationality and class.

Nineteenth-century British women’s travel writing reveals how they found freedom abroad. Far from strict Victorian codes, they participated in men’s sports, improving their health and confidence. This shaped feminism and the revolutionary image of the New Woman.