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In Search of the Medieval Voice

Expressions of Identity in the Middle Ages

Edited By: Lorna Bleach, Katariina Närä, Sian Prosser

£39.99

This collection of articles is an intriguing way of looking at medieval identity. Reaching beyond literature, this book examines the authorial and pictorial voice, the voice of national identity, and even the physical attributes a medieval voice may have had.

English Without Boundaries

Reading English from China to Canada

Edited By: Trudi Darby, Jane Roberts

£64.99

This conference proceedings demonstrates the strength of English studies across the world, with contributions from scholars in China, Finland, Israel, Italy, Japan and Portugal, as well as from Canada, the UK and the USA, showing the energy and breadth of English studies today.

Food and Appetites

The Hunger Artist and the Arts

Edited By: Ann McCulloch, Pavlina Radia

£44.99

This book traces food as hunger, desire, and appetite in the arts. Examining hunger in literature and art, it explores food's significance as a metaphor for social class, inequality, and gluttony, revealing the problems of excessive human cravings.

This book traces food as hunger, desire, and appetite in the arts. Examining hunger in literature and art, it explores food’s significance as a metaphor for social class, inequality, and gluttony, revealing the problems of excessive human cravings.

Experiencing Gender

International Approaches

Edited By: Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco

£52.99

This publication investigates the concept of gender in an international context. Focusing on various critical approaches, it explores how gender identities are shaped by socio-cultural factors, and provides a map of how gender experiences are represented in the arts.

Fundamental Shakespeare

New Perspectives on Gender, Psychology and Politics

Edited By: Maryam Beyad, Ismail Salami

£41.99

This volume sheds fresh light on, and offers new insights to, a wide range of topics including politics, psychology and discourse, by discussing the work of Shakespeare from an Eastern perspective.

Culture-blind Shakespeare

Multiculturalism and Diversity

Edited By: Maryam Beyad

£46.99

This collection of essays offers a plethora of responses to Shakespeare by both Western and Eastern critics, indicating that the Bard crosses all nationalities and deserves to be defined as a global writer.

Imagining Blackness in Germany and Austria

Edited By: Sabrina K. Rahman, Michael Saman, Charlotte Szilagyi

£39.99

These provocative essays examine how blackness has been configured in cultural productions from the modern German-speaking world, tracing crucial shifts from colonial notions of race to the recodification of blackness as American and an entry-point into modernity.

The Spectacular In and Around Shakespeare

Edited By: Pascale Drouet

£34.99

This volume addresses the economy of the spectacular in Shakespeare’s plays, from early modern England to twenty-first-century adaptations. It asks what is behind the spectacular. Is there a manipulative purpose? How far-reaching are the political and ideological stakes?

Media, Technology and the Imagination

Edited By: Marie Hendry, Jennifer Page

£39.99

Technology is reshaping imagination itself. The essays in this volume explore the thrilling intersection of the digital and the creative as it transforms modern film, fiction, and art.

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.

Future Humans in Fiction and Film

Edited By: Louisa MacKay Demerjian, Karen F. Stein

£58.99

This publication raises profound economic, ethical, political, sociological, and psychological questions. It explores our fears and fantasies as it examines a range of fictions, films, and TV programs that speculate about the possibilities of humans in the future.

Subaltern Vision

A Study in Postcolonial Indian English Text

Edited By: Aparajita De, Amrita Ghosh, Ujjwal Jana

£34.99

This volume offers a stimulating collection of essays on literary representations of subaltern issues by Indian novelists such as Amitav Ghosh, Mahasweta Devi, Kiran Desai, and Rohinton Mistry. Essential reading on the gap between India’s haves and have-nots.

(Re)writing and Remembering

Memory as Artefact and Artifice

Edited By: James Dalrymple, Jonathan Fruoco, Virginia Sherman

£41.99

The contributions to this volume discuss the extent to which fictional acts of remembering are also acts of rewriting the past to suit the needs of the present. They focus on a range of narratives, from poetry to biopics—from the ostensibly fictional to the implicitly real.

Reading Othello as Catholic Tragedy

By: Greg Maillet

£58.99

This book builds upon recent analysis of Shakespeare’s Othello, in order to show how the discourse of religion might affect our understanding of this play. It specifically looks at how Catholicism, a contested topic in Shakespeare’s world, affects our understanding of Desdemona.

Theory That Matters

What Practice After Theory

Edited By: Kacper Bartczak, Małgorzata Myk

£49.99

Theory That Matters offers an up-to-date assessment of literary and cultural theory. The volume launches a defence of theory, demonstrating this is not achieved at the expense of praxis, but by showing its currency through a variety of contexts.

Critical Perspectives on Literature and Culture in the New World Order

Edited By: Washima Che Dan, Jason Sanjeev Ganesan, Noritah Omar

£39.99

This volume offers critical perspectives on literature and culture, contesting the New World Order and the hegemony of stronger nations. With a significant focus on Islam, it challenges academic discourses founded upon Western-style scholarship.

Rediscovering French Science-Fiction in Literature, Film and Comics

From Cyrano to Barbarella

Edited By: Philippe Mather, Sylvain Rheault

£47.99

French science-fiction is as old as Cyrano de Bergerac’s trip to the moon and Jules Verne’s scientific adventures. This collection introduces its unique contributions to an English-speaking audience, exploring the genre's deep roots in literature, film, and graphic novels.

French science-fiction is as old as Cyrano de Bergerac’s trip to the moon and Jules Verne’s scientific adventures. This collection introduces its unique contributions to an English-speaking audience, exploring the genre’s deep roots in literature, film, and graphic novels.

Insights into D.H. Lawrence’s Sardinia

Edited By: Nick Ceramella, Daniele Marzeddu

£67.99

This volume explores D. H. Lawrence’s search for an ideal primitive society. Combining literature and photography, it analyses Sicilian and Sardinian society, offering new perspectives on *Sea and Sardinia*, including its ecological approach, gender roles, and local identity.

Learning to See the Theological Vision of Shakespeare’s King Lear

By: Greg Maillet

£45.99

Following the recent ‘turn to religion’ that has been so important to English Studies in the 21st century, this monograph builds on many of the recent biographies of Shakespeare that have explored the playwright’s religious views, with a specific focus on his King Lear.

Rethinking the Vanguard

Aesthetic and Political Positions in the Modernist Debate, 1917-1962

By: John W. Maerhofer

£39.99

This study re-interprets the historical avant-garde from 1917 to 1962, focusing on the convergence of aesthetics and politics. From the Bolshevik Revolution to decolonizing movements, it reveals the vanguard's transformation and its relevance today.