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Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema

Edited By: Cornelius Crowley, Geetha Ganapathy-Doré

£61.99

Studying the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent, this collection questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past. It does this to address the conflicting comprehensions of the present and the figuring/imagining of a possible future.

Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity

Edited By: Annick Duperray, Adrian Harding, Dennis Tredy

£44.99

This collection of essays by international scholars explores Henry James's use of duplicity—a key strategy in his arsenal of ambiguity. The essays examine duplicitous characters, subtexts, and self-representation in his fiction and non-fiction.

This collection of essays by international scholars explores Henry James’s use of duplicity—a key strategy in his arsenal of ambiguity. The essays examine duplicitous characters, subtexts, and self-representation in his fiction and non-fiction.

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.

Second-Generation Romantic Poets’ Paradoxical Approach to Women

Libertarianism versus Patriarchy

By: Soner Kaya

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This book examines the works of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, revealing their inconsistent attitudes towards women. Caught between their liberal views and the patriarchal norms of their age, their writing both reinforces and challenges traditional gender roles.

Ex-centric Writing

Essays on Madness in Postcolonial Fiction

Edited By: Annalisa Pes, Susanna Zinato

£44.99

This volume of essays examines postcolonial alienation through the anamorphic lens of madness. In fiction from Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia, the mad character’s vision is a warning against discourses that pass as the natural order of things.

1812 Echoes

The Cadiz Constitution in Hispanic History, Culture and Politics

Edited By: Stephen G.H. Roberts, Adam Sharman

£54.99

The 1812 Constitution of Cadiz was a defining moment for the Spanish-speaking world. Drafted during wartime, it radically redefined ‘the Spanish nation’, dividing Spaniards and questioning Spain's legitimacy in her American colonies. This volume explores its legacy.

The 1812 Constitution of Cadiz was a defining moment for the Spanish-speaking world. Drafted during wartime, it radically redefined ‘the Spanish nation’, dividing Spaniards and questioning Spain’s legitimacy in her American colonies. This volume explores its legacy.

Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects

Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body

Edited By: Silvia Castro-Borrego, Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

£34.99

This collection explores women's identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

This collection explores women’s identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

A Class of Its Own

Re-Envisioning American Labor Fiction

Edited By: Laura Hapke, Lisa A. Kirby

£39.99

A Class of Its Own positions American social protest authors in a scholarly, student-centered context. Scholars explore what makes a text “working class” and how class studies empower teachers. Discusses authors like Zora Neale Hurston and Stephen Crane.

Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

A Mosaic of Criticism

Edited By: Amie A. Doughty

£47.99

This collection of essays investigates various nuances of a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture, from the representation of race and bullying in picture-books to environmentalism and religion in fantasy literature, among others.

The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium

Edited By: Prabhat K. Singh

£39.99

This collection of scholarly critiques explores recent Indian English novels by authors such as Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga. The volume focuses on emerging genres, from crime fiction and science fiction to LGBT voices and postcolonial narratives.

Whose Story? Translating the Verbal and the Visual in Literature for Young Readers

Edited By: Riitta Oittinen

£24.99

This book tackles the challenges of translating children’s literature, from picturebooks to classics like Beatrix Potter and Tolkien. It examines the active role of translators and publishers, linking theory with practice through diverse examples.

Mapping Metabiographical Heartlands in Marina Warner’s Fiction

By: Souhir Zekri

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This accessible guide explores literary theory through Marina Warner’s fiction, covering pressing issues like colonialism, displacement, and women's oppression. Blending close textual analysis with jargon-free overviews, it is ideal for students, researchers, and teachers.

This accessible guide explores literary theory through Marina Warner’s fiction, covering pressing issues like colonialism, displacement, and women’s oppression. Blending close textual analysis with jargon-free overviews, it is ideal for students, researchers, and teachers.

Reading the Fantastic Imagination

The Avatars of a Literary Genre

Edited By: Dana Percec

£44.99

This volume investigates the fantastic imagination and its hybrid nature as a postmodern form. Continuing a project on popular genres, this collection of studies confronts the paradox of trendy 'lowbrow' fiction being studied by canonical scholars.

This volume investigates the fantastic imagination and its hybrid nature as a postmodern form. Continuing a project on popular genres, this collection of studies confronts the paradox of trendy ‘lowbrow’ fiction being studied by canonical scholars.

Solidarity, Memory and Identity

Edited By: Maria Virginia Filomena Cremasco, Wojciech Owczarski

£52.99

In a world of deepening conflict, what is solidarity today? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the concept from philosophical, social, political, and artistic perspectives, exploring its relation to memory and inspiring readers to help victims of exclusion.

The Empty Too

Language and Philosophy in the Works of Samuel Beckett

By: Arthur Broomfield

£39.99

This controversial study argues that for Beckett, pure language is reality. While the world we perceive cannot be proved to exist, language survives to become the real. Beckett’s art is his philosophy, a thinking that surpasses the major philosophers.

Acts of Memory

The Victorians and Beyond

Edited By: Ryan Barnett, Serena Trowbridge

£34.99

For the Victorians, memory was inseparable from literature. This collection of lively essays offers a rich and diverse exploration of this interconnection, discussing well-known figures and texts alongside key psychological and philosophical works.

Rushdie’s Cross-Pollinations

By: Dana Bădulescu

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This book is a literary journey through Salman Rushdie’s cross-pollinated gardens, where reading is a quest. It explores his sorcery with language, the dark season of the fatwa, the lush sensuality of his novels, and his Quichotte, a Don Quijote for the internet age.

A History of the Bildungsroman

From Ancient Beginnings to Romanticism

By: Petru Golban

£64.99

Golban establishes a vector of methodology in approaching the English Bildungsroman (the novel of identity formation). His wide-ranging critical perspectives will be useful to anyone concerned with perspectives of modern fiction studies and European and English novelistic genres.

Alternative Communities in Hispanic Literature and Culture

Edited By: Luis H. Castañeda, Javier González

£52.99

This book studies the fictional representation of circles of artists and intellectuals, and other diverse associations that share the common trait of being small and subversive collectives, showing how such communities represent the “other side” of official institutions.

A Critical Review of Contemporary Romanian Literature

Amidst the Masters of Words

By: Florin-Corneliu Popovici

From £34.99

This book offers insight into Romanian culture through literary criticism of its post-1989 writers. In reading these interpretations, audiences gain access to the heart of the people and understand what this enduring nation can offer the world.