Sociology

This collection of essays explores the grotesque in modern Central and Eastern European writing, focusing on the Soviet era. Scholars analyze the relationship between the socio-political background and subversive literary representations of the grotesque.

This collection offers tantalizing essays on the culture of food in literature. Exploring works by authors from John Milton to J.K. Rowling, it covers topics from feminist theory to film, appealing to students, food enthusiasts, and scholars alike.

This book explores the Mediterranean’s dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.

The division between secure centres and unknown peripheries is obsolete.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.

The essays in Women and Work explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being women—encompassing not only paid labor but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity.

This collection of essays explores cities in North America, Europe, and Asia as dynamic encounters. Different disciplines intersect to shape the unique field of Urban Culture Studies and grant us a new understanding of how we inscribe cities and how they inscribe us.

This book analyzes the link between myth, identity, and reality, examining how contemporary Scottish and Irish women writers reconfigure normative stories to create new possibilities for feminine identity and social order.