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Romantic Ireland

From Tone to Gonne; Fresh Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Edited By: Paddy Lyons, Willy Maley, John Miller

£54.99

Romantic Ireland: From Tone to Gonne takes Irish Studies in new directions. Bringing together international scholars, it explores the tumultuous nineteenth century through a cross-cultural comparison with Scotland, enhancing our awareness of colonialism and nationalism.

This Is Her Century

A Study of Margaret Walker’s Work

By: Doaa Abdelhafez Hamada

£39.99

This book is the first monograph on Margaret Walker, a writer who slipped to the margins of the African American literary canon. It is an attempt to establish the importance of Walker’s representation of twentieth-century America against its critical obscurity.

Finding the Plot

Storytelling in Popular Fictions

Edited By: Loïc Artiago, Diana Holmes, David Platten

£49.99

Plot is basic to our experience, yet criticism has often passed it over. This book redresses this neglect, bringing together international scholars to explore the pleasures of consuming stories across a variety of media. How do plots work and why do they matter?

Aspects of Byron’s Don Juan

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£59.99

This volume explores Byron’s Don Juan, from its politics, treatment of women, and comic rhymes to its importance in Spain and Russia. It delves into Byron's sources, Mary Shelley's vital role, and the poem's legacy among artists from Tirso de Molina to Johnny Depp.

This volume explores Byron’s Don Juan, from its politics, treatment of women, and comic rhymes to its importance in Spain and Russia. It delves into Byron’s sources, Mary Shelley’s vital role, and the poem’s legacy among artists from Tirso de Molina to Johnny Depp.

The Poetics of Passage

Christa Wolf, Time, and Narrative

By: Heike Polster

£39.99

The Poetics of Passage discusses Christa Wolf’s guiding concerns: the experience and representation of time and history. This study outlines her critical engagement with memory and the writing process, formulating a poetics of contemporaneity.

Captured by the City

Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies

Edited By: Blagovesta Momchedjikova

£44.99

This collection of essays explores cities in North America, Europe, and Asia as dynamic encounters. Different disciplines intersect to shape the unique field of Urban Culture Studies and grant us a new understanding of how we inscribe cities and how they inscribe us.

Transforming Henry James

Edited By: Anna De Biasio, Anna Despotopoulou, Chryssoula Lascaratou

£54.99

Distinguished scholars offer new readings of Henry James’s fiction and non-fiction. These essays explore his engagement with cities, gender, sexuality, and culture, making a convincing case for the enduring centrality of his work to literary and cultural studies.

Constructing the Literary Self

Race and Gender in Twentieth-Century Literature

Edited By: Patsy J. Daniels

£44.99

This volume explores the quest for self-definition among previously excluded groups. Its thirteen essays by recognized scholars depict strategies of escaping oppression through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, assimilation, and the family.

The Central and the Peripheral

Studies in Literature and Culture

Edited By: Jakub Lipski, Joanna Malicka, Paweł Schreiber

£44.99

The division between secure centres and unknown peripheries is obsolete. How can we find our way in a world where peripheries become centres and centres turn into peripheries? This book explores how this problem is dealt with in literature and culture.

Encountering Ephemera 1500-1800

Scholarship, Performance, Classroom

Edited By: Joshua B. Fisher, Rebecca Steinberger

£44.99

This collection redefines ephemera by challenging the opposition between the transitory and the enduring. Essays explore how materials from broadside ballads to performance reveal the dynamic unfixity of early modern and eighteenth-century cultural practices.

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.

The Silence of Fallout

Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World

Edited By: Michael Blouin, Morgan Shipley, Jack Taylor

£44.99

How do we address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world? Scholars of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent voices, renewing this conversation and taking it in exciting new directions for future generations caught in a struggle with nuclear legacies.

Essays in Defence of the Female Sex

Custom, Education and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Manuela D’Amore, Michèle Lardy

£49.99

This volume explores the pivotal figures and contradictions of the *querelle des femmes* in Stuart England. Through an analysis of early feminist pamphlets, it sheds light on women’s difficult path towards emancipation and a new kind of thought.

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.

Voglio morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919

Edited By: Paolo L. Bernardini, Anita Virga

£49.99

In 19th-century Italy, suicide transformed from a rare sin into a widespread phenomenon. This book provides the first interdisciplinary account, exploring it through literature, art, and politics, and examining major figures like Leopardi and Salgari.

In the Mirror of the Past

Of Fantasy and History

Edited By: Tomasz Ratajczak, Bogdan Trocha

£39.99

Confronted by overwhelming events, we turn to myth. These essays discuss myth in modern speculative fiction, showing how fantasy becomes a mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions or a reality superior to our own.

Un-Australian Fictions

Nation, Multiculture(alism) and Globalisation, 1988-2008

By: Eleni Pavlides

£44.99

Un-Australian Fictions analyses literary works from 1988-2008 that challenge the national ethos and mythology. These texts reflect the destabilisation of once certain borders of Australianness, asking what it means to be Australian in a new millennium.

The Famished Road

Ben Okri’s Imaginary Homelands

Edited By: Vanessa Guignery

£39.99

This volume offers a journey into Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. Contributors look beyond pre-conceived categories to embrace the otherness of the text, offering new ways of reading Okri’s prose and reliance on myth. Includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri.

The Threat and Allure of the Magical

Selected Papers from the 17th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley

Edited By: Ashwin Manthripragada, Emina Mušanović, Dagmar Theison

£39.99

This collection of essays explores intersections between the occult and the political, and the entanglement of magic, modernity, media, and aesthetics. Topics range from the witch in print media and the Third Reich’s occult to 19th-century novellas and film.

Making Up

Research in Creative Writing

By: Graeme Harper

£39.99

Research in creative writing is not only about the works it produces, but the explorations a creative writer undertakes. Through creative writing, a writer can explore ideas, concepts, and states of mind. This collection shows what this growing field does and more.