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New Women’s Writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe

Gender, Generation and Identities

Edited By: Rosalind Marsh

£64.99

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.

New Readings of The Merchant of Venice

Edited By: Horacio Sierra

£44.99

Why has The Merchant of Venice garnered so much attention? This collection offers readers sundry answers, showcasing disparate approaches from a feminist view to a Manga version, providing students with different critical lenses to interpret the play.

Ex-changes

Comparative Studies in British and American Cultures

Edited By: Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, Katarzyna Więckowska

£44.99

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.

The Making of the Modern Artist

Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen

By: Ernest L. Veyu

£39.99

This study brings together James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence in their common concern with the modern artist. Examining the fictional artists Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen, it shows how Joyce and Lawrence converge on the character and vision of the modern artist.

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.

C. S. Lewis and the Inklings

Discovering Hidden Truth

Edited By: Mark Hall, Jason Fisher, Salwa Khoddam

£44.99

This volume offers essays on hiddenness and discovery in the works of the Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Owen Barfield, along with their influences G. K. Chesterton and George MacDonald. Explore their collaboration, linguistics, and more.

Selected Poems

From Modernism to Now

Edited By: Hélène Aji, Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec

£44.99

Selected poems are reader-friendly, but who decides what’s included? The essays in this volume address this question, offering an overview of poetic writing from the modernists to today and new insight into how these slimmer volumes are produced.

Language, Lineage and Location in the Works of Osbern Bokenham

By: Alice Spencer

£39.99

The first study of Osbern Bokenham since the discovery of his lost magnum opus. It reveals how Bokenham negotiates his marginality to claim poetic authority, countering patriarchal history by asserting an alternative, spiritual matrilineage.

Out of the Shadows

The Life and Works of Mary De Morgan

By: Marilyn Pemberton

From £34.99

Who was Mary De Morgan? Overshadowed by her family, she was a writer, spiritualist, social reformer, and early feminist. This book reveals a complex "New Woman" and explains why George Bernard Shaw considered her a “devil incarnate.”

Who was Mary De Morgan? Overshadowed by her family, she was a writer, spiritualist, social reformer, and early feminist. This book reveals a complex “New Woman” and explains why George Bernard Shaw considered her a “devil incarnate.”

Shifting the Compass

Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

Edited By: Jeroen Dewulf, Michiel van Kempen, Olf Praamstra

£44.99

The study of Dutch colonial literature has traditionally focused on the motherland, ignoring the global network. This collection of articles shifts the compass of analysis to present new perspectives on the pluricontinental contacts within this vast network.

Early Modern Communi(cati)ons

Studies in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Edited By: Kinga Földváry, Erzsébet Stróbl

£44.99

This volume demonstrates the connections that bind Elizabethan and Jacobean cultural studies with Shakespearean investigations. Essays explore early modern culture and Shakespeare’s works, from their socio-historical context to present-day interpretations.

(Re)Visions of History in Language and Fiction

Edited By: Dorota Guttfeld, Monika Linke, Agnieszka Sowińska

£49.99

This interdisciplinary collection explores how the past is retold and rewritten. Scholars analyze history's representation in fiction, media, and political discourse, from postcolonial and feminist perspectives to unorthodox visions in speculative fiction.

This interdisciplinary collection explores how the past is retold and rewritten. Scholars analyze history’s representation in fiction, media, and political discourse, from postcolonial and feminist perspectives to unorthodox visions in speculative fiction.

Antillanité, créolité, littérature-monde

Edited By: Isabelle Constant, Kahiudi C. Mabana

£39.99

Explore how the movements of antillanité, créolité, and littérature-monde break from the literary center to forge authentic identities and a new genre.

From Fictionalism to Realism

Edited By: Carola Barbero, Maurizio Ferraris, Alberto Voltolini

£39.99

This book focuses on the controversy over social and fictional entities. Fictionalists claim we only make-believe they exist. Creationists argue they are real products of human activity. By evaluating both stances, this book sheds new light on the debate.

Women’s Voices and Feminism in Polish Cultural Memory

Edited By: Urszula Chowaniec, Ursula Phillips

£44.99

This volume analyses how feminism has shaped Polish literature, film and language, seeking to identify what is particular to the Polish feminist experience. Scholars examine Polish cultural history and memory through the transformations of the last two centuries.

Claiming Sylvia Plath

The Poet as Exemplary Figure

By: Marianne Egeland

£49.99

Claiming Sylvia Plath is a critical study of the public obsession with the poet. It explores how she has been claimed by critics, feminists, and biographers to further theories, politics, and careers, offering new perspectives on her public image.

The Figure of the Shaman in Contemporary British Poetry

By: Shamsad Mortuza

£44.99

This study locates five contemporary British poets in a counter-cultural tradition responding to state power. From Celtic druids to Thatcherism, these shamanic poets use ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy’ to wrest spirituality from religion and politics.

Literature, Rhetoric and Values

Selected Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Waterloo, 3-5 June 2011

Edited By: Randy Allen Harris, Shelley Hulan, Murray McArthur

£44.99

These essays use cutting-edge scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting issues like torture, genocide, and environmental apocalypse. Authors essay the ethical dimensions of works from whisky bottles to graphic novels.

Poetry and Voice

A Book of Essays

Edited By: Stephanie Norgate

£44.99

This international collection of essays fuses critical and creative treatments of poetic voice. Contributors give rare insights into inner poetic processes and artistic debates, approaching the question of what it is to ‘find a voice’ in poetry from multiple angles.

Visions and Revisions

The Word and the Text

Edited By: Roger Kojecký, Andrew Tate

£39.99

Literary texts draw on other texts and ideas to communicate. This book offers new ways to understand the creations of writers like William Blake, Salman Rushdie, and Hilary Mantel, exploring their labours with form and affinities to the Western spiritual tradition.