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On the Red Horse, Peter and Paul—A Small Book about a Big War (Diary Entries, Articles, Letters, 1991–1998)

By: Helena Peričić

£24.99

Helena Peričić's brave, open-hearted testimony of surviving the Homeland War in Croatia during the ’90s. This bilingual edition includes the English translation and the original Croatian text.

Helena Peričić’s brave, open-hearted testimony of surviving the Homeland War in Croatia during the ’90s.

This bilingual edition includes the English translation and the original Croatian text.

Emblems of Adversity

Essays on the Aesthetics of Politics in W. B. Yeats and Others

By: Rached Khalifa

£39.99

These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats's poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.

These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats’s poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.

The Medieval Empire in Central Europe

Dynastic Continuity in the Post-Carolingian Frankish Realm, 900-1300

By: Herbert Schutz

£44.99

This book offers a political history of the Medieval Empire, from its 10th-century inception to becoming Europe's strongest power. It traces its support of the papacy, the struggle for supremacy, the shift to Italy, and its demise by the mid-13th century.

This book offers a political history of the Medieval Empire, from its 10th-century inception to becoming Europe’s strongest power. It traces its support of the papacy, the struggle for supremacy, the shift to Italy, and its demise by the mid-13th century.

L’Intime épistolaire (1850-1900)

genre et pratique culturelle

By: Jelena Jovicic

£39.99

Through the private letters of authors like Flaubert, Zola, and Sand, this study casts fresh light on intimacy in Nineteenth-Century French culture. It interprets letter writing as a unique genre, distinct from diaries or memoirs, with its own rules.

Mary Shelley

Her Circle and Her Contemporaries

Edited By: L. Adam Meckler, Lucy Morrison

£39.99

This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the Romantic age. Her texts converse with those of her family and contemporaries, including her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, illuminating the contexts in which they were composed.

Wretched Refuge

Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern

Edited By: Jessica Datema, Diane Krumrey

£34.99

This book reimagines the immigrant experience as part of a larger motif: the postmodern itinerant. As a figure of displacement and dispersion, the itinerant suggests a cosmopolitan response to anxieties about global hegemony in works by Diaz, Lahiri, and others.

Byron and Women [and men]

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£44.99

New essays examine Lord Byron’s bisexuality and its effect on his poetry and drama. This volume covers neglected aspects of his life, including his boyfriends and gender in *Don Juan*, and includes new editions of notorious poems with startling theories.

In the Jaws of the Leviathan

Genocide Fiction and Film

By: Joya Uraizee

£24.99

How do we witness the unspeakable? This book analyzes portrayals of genocide in film and fiction from Africa, Asia, and South America. It contrasts the indirect metaphors of commercial media with the direct, personal gazes found in experimental works.

To Test the Limits of Our Endurance

By: Shlomo Giora Shoham

£44.99

A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.

Metamorphoses of Travel Writing

Across Theories, Genres, Centuries and Literary Traditions

Edited By: Grzegorz Moroz

£39.99

This book adds to the fast-growing field of travel writing studies. Its papers use varied theoretical approaches to explore a diverse body of texts—fictional, non-fictional, and poetry—from the last 300 years and from multiple literary traditions.

Dickens and Italy

Little Dorrit and Pictures from Italy

Edited By: Marialuisa Bignami, Michael Hollington

£39.99

Dickens's relationship with America has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so. His stay there represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book focuses on his major Italian writings, Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit.

Dickens’s relationship with America has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so. His stay there represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book focuses on his major Italian writings, Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit.

Greece and Britain since 1945

Edited By: David Wills

£34.99

This book explores the transformation of Anglo-Greek relations since 1945. With contributions from leading academics and journalists, it focuses on cultural perceptions, covering literature, the work of aid agencies, and television series set in Greece.

Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe

Edited By: Filomena Viana Guarda, Adriana Martins, Helena Gonçalves da Silva

£44.99

This book discusses memory construction associated with war, genocide, and colonialism. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of how conflict memories reshape history and identity, destabilizing fixed meanings and clarifying our invisible bonds to the past.

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.

James Joyce and After

Writer and Time

Edited By: Katarzyna Bazarnik, Bożena Kucała

£39.99

This volume of essays examines time in literature, from the modernist revolution initiated by Joyce to the present. It offers new readings of Joyce’s work and explores subjective time in writers like Coetzee and collective experience in post-9/11 fiction.

Between Myth and Reality

Goethe, Anna Amalia, Charlotte von Stein

By: Dan Farrelly

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Ghibellino's provocative thesis claimed Goethe’s beloved was not Charlotte von Stein but Duchess Anna Amalia. Dan Farrelly meticulously re-reads Goethe’s letters, refuting this thesis and proving that Charlotte was the true addressee.

Ghibellino’s provocative thesis claimed Goethe’s beloved was not Charlotte von Stein but Duchess Anna Amalia. Dan Farrelly meticulously re-reads Goethe’s letters, refuting this thesis and proving that Charlotte was the true addressee.

“Imperialists in Broken Boots”

Poor Whites and Philanthropy in Southern African Writing

By: Julie Cairnie

£34.99

This book argues that in Southern Africa, ‘poor white’ was not a narrow economic category but a term for those who threatened to collapse racial, sexual, and class boundaries. It studies writers who either embraced this threat or argued for a solution.

Vendetta

Essays on Honor and Revenge

Edited By: Giovanna Summerfield

£34.99

This volume provides a riveting account of revenge as a muse in modern literature. It analyzes Hispanic, Italian, and French texts, exploring chivalric avenges, codes of honor, and the patient craftiness of women in a unique collection of topics.

Writing America into the Twenty-First Century

Essays on the American Novel

Edited By: Elizabeth Boyle, Anne-Marie Evans

£34.99

This collection of essays presents a refreshing analysis of recent American fiction. Interrogating works by authors like Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy, it offers a new way to examine the American novel in the twenty-first century.

This “Self” Which Is Not One

Women’s Life Writing in French

Edited By: Natalie Edwards, Christopher Hogarth

£34.99

This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.