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Nineteenth-Century France in Motion

Edited By: Loïc Guyon, Andrew Watts

£44.99

The nineteenth century was an age of movement. This volume explores the political, artistic, and social shifts that defined France as a society in perpetual motion, confronting its own extremes of progress and renewal, stagnancy and regression.

Racial, Ethnic, Gender and Class Representations in Margaret Laurence’s Writings

By: Andreea Topor-Constantin

£44.99

This study analyzes Margaret Laurence's work as an entity, exploring representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Covering her fiction and non-fiction, it gives voice to the marginal to challenge readers’ perceptions.

This study analyzes Margaret Laurence’s work as an entity, exploring representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Covering her fiction and non-fiction, it gives voice to the marginal to challenge readers’ perceptions.

Metropolitan Mosaics and Melting-Pots

Paris and Montreal in Francophone Literatures

Edited By: Adlai Murdoch, Pascale De Souza

£44.99

This series of essays explores how the concepts of the melting-pot and the mosaic have shaped the representation of Paris and Montreal in francophone literatures. Migrant writing poses questions of ethnicity and integration, challenging notions of the city and Frenchness.

The Contemporary Francophone African Intellectual

Edited By: Natalie Edwards

£44.99

This volume examines the contemporary African intellectual's engagement with the State, the people, and hegemony. Featuring new and established voices, it explores the challenges of critiquing power and enacting change from within Africa or in exile.

This volume examines the contemporary African intellectual’s engagement with the State, the people, and hegemony. Featuring new and established voices, it explores the challenges of critiquing power and enacting change from within Africa or in exile.

Rossetti’s Armadillo

By: Charles Kraszewski

£54.99

Explore European poetry from Sappho to Isou. Each of these thirty-three verse translations is paired with the original poem and an illuminating essay revealing the translator's art and process.

Explore European poetry from Sappho to Isou. Each of these thirty-three verse translations is paired with the original poem and an illuminating essay revealing the translator’s art and process.

The Everyday

Experiences, Concepts, and Narratives

Edited By: Justin Derry, Martin Parrot

£44.99

This inter-disciplinary book explores the slippery notion of ‘Everyday Life’. With contributions from fields like art history, cultural studies, and anthropology, it provides a unique space for exploring how everyday life intersects with key debates.

Charles Dickens and Europe

Edited By: Maxime Leroy

£39.99

Charles Dickens is a British literary icon, but should he be read as a European author? This book explores his relationship to Europe through his travels, the continental locations in his novels, and the influence of his works on other European texts.

Dystopia(n) Matters

On the Page, on Screen, on Stage

Edited By: Fátima Vieira

£49.99

Reputed scholars explain why dystopia is important. Through studies of literature, film, and theatre, they argue that while dystopia has invaded contemporary discourse, utopia has not been eradicated. The tension between them is instrumental to our future.

The Tain of Hamlet

By: Laurie Johnson

£49.99

We have lost sight of Hamlet itself. This book looks beyond the play that has bedazzled critics for centuries to seek its historical distinctness, unraveling myths about the players, printers, patrons, and Shakespeare himself.

Imagining Blackness in Germany and Austria

Edited By: Sabrina K. Rahman, Michael Saman, Charlotte Szilagyi

£39.99

These provocative essays examine how blackness has been configured in cultural productions from the modern German-speaking world, tracing crucial shifts from colonial notions of race to the recodification of blackness as American and an entry-point into modernity.

Shakespeare in Performance

Edited By: Eric C. Brown, Estelle Rivier-Arnaud

£44.99

These essays explore Shakespeare in performance across time and media. From 17th-century stagings to modern cinema, the circus, and global theatre, the collection asks what motivates Shakespearean performance and how we trace what is ephemeral.

The Politics of Poetics

Poetry and Social Activism in Early-Modern through Contemporary Italy

Edited By: Federica Santini

£44.99

This book analyzes Italian poetry that aims not to represent the world, but to enact a change upon it. Using the metaphor of the rhizome—a subversive, unpredictable growth—it explores poetics as an agent of social transformation, a revolt from within.

The Failed Text

Literature and Failure

Edited By: José Luis Martínez-Dueñas Espejo, Rocío G. Sumillera

£44.99

The history of literature is not merely a succession of successful works, but also a concatenation of failed projects and unappreciated innovations. These essays explore exemplary failures, arguing that they are as crucial as successes in literary history.

Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism

By: James Prothero

£44.99

While early Twentieth Century London embraced Modernism, in Wales the opposite was true. This study traces the Welsh poets and novelists who found their master in William Wordsworth, illuminating an unexpected flare-up of Romanticism.

Soft-Shed Kisses

Re-visioning the Femme Fatale in English Poetry of the 19th Century

By: Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys

£49.99

The femme fatale of 19th-century poetry symbolises an intractable mystery and a refusal to be defined. This book interrogates the fatal woman motif in poems by Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Rossetti and Swinburne, enriched by visual art and cultural background.

Royalists, Radicals, and les Misérables

France in 1832

Edited By: Eric Martone

£44.99

In 1832, a royalist uprising, a cholera epidemic, and the June Revolution immortalized in Les Misérables rocked France. This collection is the first to examine these pivotal events together, revealing an overlooked year in the transition to a republic.

Psychoanalysis in Context

Edited By: Alvin Henry

£39.99

Drawing on psychoanalysis, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the contributors examine how the circulation of psychoanalysis across time and place reflects and shapes literature, offering fresh insights into their shared literary history.

“The Real Thing”

Essays on Tom Stoppard in Celebration of his 75th Birthday

Edited By: William Baker

£49.99

Tom Stoppard is the most significant living British dramatist. The critical essays in this volume celebrate his insightful and wry work, addressing well-known plays like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead as well as his critically neglected fiction.

Postfeminist Discourse in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Warner’s Indigo

Ambivalence, Liminality and Plurality

By: Natali Boğosyan

£49.99

A comparative study of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Marina Warner’s rewriting, Indigo. Focusing on femininity and the other, this analysis explores ambivalence, liminality, and plurality in postfeminist and post-colonial contexts.

The Epistemology of Utopia

Rhetoric, Theory and Imagination

Edited By: Jorge Bastos da Silva

£44.99

Utopianism nurtures possibilities by critiquing and transforming the world. This volume provides critical revisions of the field through essays on topics ranging from Plato’s Republic and More’s Utopia to modern-day cosmopolitics and science.