Reconsidering the Origins of Recognition
A new generation of researchers explores German idealism’s central topic: recognition. Overcoming classical divisions, they offer critical re-readings of foundational texts, showing how this philosophy continues to inspire new generations of thinkers.
Contesting Categories, Remapping Boundaries
This book traces the evolution of Tamil Dalit writing from the early twentieth century to the present and explores its impact on academia. It analyses the literary works of Tamil Dalits and explores how students respond to this literature in university curricula.
Colonial Psychosocial
With blistering rhetoric, William Lane mesmerised colonial Australia, playing on its fears of disease, deformity and invasion. This book follows his life—from dark cities to a failed utopia—to trace how he shaped a lasting legacy of exclusion.
This collection of critical essays explores the intersection of gender and diaspora in Indian literature. Drawing on feminist and queer studies, it examines the predicament of belonging and identity, showcasing the range and depth of the Indian diaspora.
This work analyzes Nabokov’s prefaces to offer a new perspective on authorship. The author, neither dead nor tyrannical, alternates between authoritative apparition and disappearance, deconstructing the myth of Nabokov’s arrogance to unearth his vulnerability.
The Reptant Eagle
Carlos Fuentes was a leading voice in Latin America’s Boom generation. The Reptant Eagle collects essays by renowned scholars that offer innovative readings of his major works and trace his contribution to the uninterrupted tradition of the art of the novel.
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.
Science, Gender and History
This study offers fresh readings of Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, comparing Frankenstein and The Last Man with The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake to reveal an ongoing critique of oppressive science, gender ideologies, and environmental ruin.
This book explores the literary grotesque in 19th-century Europe, with special emphasis on Charles Dickens. It compares his work with that of key writers like Hugo, Gogol, and Hardy, examining the grotesque as a tool for questioning society.
Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century
This collection uses social network analysis and digital humanities to re-imagine the 18th century as a networked community. It explores how clubs and associations formed public opinion, revealing surprising parallels to today’s digital public sphere.
This collection of essays offers a theoretical overview of fantastic literature. An accessible introduction to the field, it analyzes works by authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, George R.R. Martin, and Neil Gaiman alongside world literature classics.
Bachelors, Bastards, and Nomadic Masculinity
This book is a thematic exploration of bachelors and bastards in the literary works of Guy de Maupassant and André Gide. It examines illegitimacy, “Counterfeit” characters, and the concept of “nomadic masculinity” during a period of great socio-legal change.
Intellect Encounters Faith – A Synthesis
This collection of essays is a tribute to renaissance man Dr. Jay Harold Ellens: a scholar, psychologist, and military chaplain. The volume merges deep scholarship with personal reflections on Psychology, Religious Literature, and Military History.
Leading scholars offer a fresh, thought-provoking examination of Byzantium in Late Antiquity and beyond. This multi-disciplinary volume presents innovative research on the interaction between the Empire’s core and periphery, and relations between Romans and Barbarians.
Writers with roots in Africa navigate new terrains and racialized identities in Europe. Through vibrant literature, they redefine identity and imagine the contours of a diverse, inclusive Europe, reckoning with its colonial history and its legacy.
Historicizing Fiction/Fictionalizing History
A unique comparative study of Umberto Eco and Orhan Pamuk. This book uses their historical novels to examine fictional depictions of reality, exploring how the text confronts a world of facts and how this affects the autonomy of the fictional space.
PIERIDES IV
This volume examines Terence as both an interpreter of literary traditions and a subject of critical reception. It explores his experimental comedies, focusing on the meaning of his work in relation to his predecessors, contemporaries, and posterity.
Christine Brooke-Rose
Experimental writer Christine Brooke-Rose puzzled critics with her fractal identity. This book settles the ambiguities of her work, charting the chameleonic features of her highly experimental novels and their unifying intertextual web.
Bodies of Speech
Aristotle was the first to conceive of poetry and oration as written texts. This book reads his Poetics and Rhetoric to reveal a systematic text theory—a profound theory able to hold a fruitful dialogue with modern thinking.
Grotesque Anatomies
This study defines Menippean satire as a literary version of the grotesque. Through revisionist readings of canonical works from Pope’s Dunciad to Eliot’s The Waste Land, it changes our understanding of them and traces the form to the present day.