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Eccentricity in Britain

Edited By: Sophie Aymes-Stokes, Laurent Mellet

£44.99

This book provides an overview of the critical history of eccentricity, a defining feature of the English character. It explores the eccentric’s paradoxical status as both outsider and insider, and the struggle to retain individuality against standardization.

Poems and Verse of Winifred Holtby

Edited By: Antony Webb

From £19.99

Novelist Winifred Holtby (South Riding) was a strong feminist who died aged only 37. This collection presents her mostly unpublished poems, which chart her life, her loves, the war, and her profound friendship with fellow writer Vera Brittain.

Literature in Society

Edited By: Regina Rudaitytė

£44.99

Does literature merely reflect society, or does it create and transform reality? Is it a tool of social power, or a source of pleasure? The essays in this volume explore the complex relations between literature and society from diverse angles and eras.

From Francis Bacon to William Golding

Utopias and Dystopias of Today and of Yore

Edited By: Minodora Barbul, Ramona Demarcsek, Ligia Tomoiagă

£39.99

Researchers from philology, philosophy, and anthropology come together to complete a 21st century vision on utopia. This interdisciplinary volume contains rigorous academic work alongside more relaxed essays.

The Hamlet Zone

Reworking Hamlet for European Cultures

Edited By: Ruth J. Owen

£39.99

For four hundred years, the myth of Hamlet has crossed Europe’s borders, spawning new, independent works of theatre, ballet, fiction, and film. This book examines how Hamlet, through translation and adaptation, became Europe's common cultural currency.

The Unassuming Sky

The Life and Poetry of Timothy Corsellis

By: Helen Goethals

£39.99

For the first time in a collected edition, the work of Timothy Corsellis. The poems tell the striking story of an unusual war poet whose life was cut tragically short: an RAF pilot who refused to bomb civilians, and his literary encounter with Stephen Spender.

Persona and Paradox

Issues of Identity for C.S. Lewis, his Friends and Associates

Edited By: Suzanne Bray

£39.99

This collection of essays examines the life and work of C.S. Lewis and his associates through the theme of identity. Scholars explore gender, family, and national identity in the writings of Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, and others.

What Do We Tell the Children? Critical Essays on Children’s Literature

Edited By: Ciara Ní Bhroin, Patricia Kennon

£39.99

This collection of critical essays addresses debates on “suitable” texts for young audiences. It examines what adult writers “tell” child readers about sexuality, gender, death, trauma, race, and national identity in Irish and international fiction.

Levity of Design

Man and Modernity in the Poetry of J. H. Prynne

By: Wit Píetrzak

£39.99

Is it still possible to think of the human subject as a viable category? This book demonstrates how J. H. Prynne’s poetry overcomes the impasse of poststructuralism, developing a language in which the notion of man can be restituted.

Dancing the Tao

Le Guin and Moral Development

By: Sandra J. Lindow

£39.99

This book takes an original approach to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work, linking her Taoist upbringing to moral development. It emphasizes her depiction of child abuse and its aftereffects, exploring how morality develops through self-awareness and voice.

Narrative is the Essence of History

Essays on the Historical Novel

Edited By: John Cameron

£34.99

The historical novel was once admired, then disparaged by critics, though it always remained popular. Now, it is again receiving critical praise. What is the essence of historical fiction? Why is it such a resilient genre? What is its future?

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: Paul D. Reich

£39.99

This volume contains essays on Florida literature and history. The first section focuses on the college classroom, while "Old Florida" explores writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Jack Kerouac. The final section identifies the state’s place within larger traditions.

This volume contains essays on Florida literature and history. The first section focuses on the college classroom, while “Old Florida” explores writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Jack Kerouac. The final section identifies the state’s place within larger traditions.

Worlds Apart? A Postcolonial Reading of post-1945 East-Central European Culture

By: Cristina Sandru

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This study applies postcolonial theory to Eastern Europe, arguing that ideological domination engenders similar forms of cultural resistance. It offers a comparative framework, revealing a shared imaginative space in authors like Milan Kundera and Salman Rushdie.

A World of Lost Innocence

The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen

By: Nicola Darwood

£39.99

A World of Lost Innocence charts the psychological journey from innocence to experience in Elizabeth Bowen's fiction, exploring her characters' confrontations with identity, sexuality, and politics.

A World of Lost Innocence charts the psychological journey from innocence to experience in Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction, exploring her characters’ confrontations with identity, sexuality, and politics.

Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: Gabrielle Malcolm, Kelli Marshall

£39.99

Where is Shakespeare in the 21st century? In global cinema, graphic novels, sci-fi television, and Jewish revenge films. This collection assesses the active world of Shakespearean adaptation, considering where he is now and where his works might be going.

Graphic History

Essays on Graphic Novels And/As History

Edited By: Richard Iadonisi

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the unique ways graphic novels shed new light on history. Analyzing writers from Art Spiegelman (Maus) to Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), these essays cover subjects from Jack the Ripper to the Iranian Revolution.

American Literary-Political Engagements

From Poe to James

By: William M. Etter

£39.99

From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era's most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.

From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era’s most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.

The Wounds of Possibility

Essays on George Steiner

Edited By: Ricardo Gil Soeiro

£54.99

This timely volume offers an in-depth study of George Steiner, one of our most provocative thinkers. Leading scholars reflect on the relation between ethics and literature, philosophy and art, providing the most comprehensive engagement with Steiner’s work to date.

Barrie, Hook, and Peter Pan

Studies in Contemporary Myth; Estudios sobre un mito contemporáneo

Edited By: Elisa T. Di Biase, Alfonso Muñoz Corcuera

£49.99

He is the boy who will never grow up, yet he is over a century old. A powerful icon, he seems to have been floating in our culture forever. This book is a tribute to this dear, mysterious, and seductive character who is now more alive than ever.

“Don’t Disturb my Masterpiece!”

Towards an Ecology of Learning

By: Paolo Palmieri

£44.99

This book explores a humanistic philosophy of learning where rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum. It proposes a holistic model that values learners' genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.

This book explores a humanistic philosophy of learning where rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum. It proposes a holistic model that values learners’ genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.