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You are What You Eat

Literary Probes into the Palate

Edited By: Annette M. Magid

£44.99

This collection offers tantalizing essays on the culture of food in literature. Exploring works by authors from John Milton to J.K. Rowling, it covers topics from feminist theory to film, appealing to students, food enthusiasts, and scholars alike.

New Beginnings in Literary Studies

Edited By: Willie van Peer

£44.99

This volume shows there is much more to analysing literature than traditional studies. It demonstrates, in non-technical language, how diverse perspectives from psychology to computer science can offer new insights into literary texts, their readers, and effects.

A Belle in the Prison of Socrates

By: Ahmed Etman

£24.99

A Belle in the Prison of Socrates presents the historical philosopher to critique contemporary life. The play sheds light on the fragility of Democratic practices, luring readers to compare Democracy in ancient Athens with its modern variations.

What Rough Beasts? Irish and Scottish Studies in the New Millennium

Edited By: Shane Alcobia-Murphy

£34.99

What Rough Beasts presents an innovative and diverse collection of new research in Irish and Scottish Studies. Showcasing original material by both emergent and established scholars, this book covers issues including poetry and violence, film, history, and more.

Third Agents

Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination

Edited By: Ian Cooper, Ekkehard Knörer, Bernhard Malkmus

£34.99

This book explores the 'third agent'—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.

This book explores the ‘third agent’—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: Keith Huneycutt, Claudia Slate

£34.99

This volume includes essays on Florida literature and history. Of special interest are studies of 19th and 21st-century literature, the contributions of African-American figures like Zora Neale Hurston, and suggestions for teaching Florida Studies.

“The Given Note”

Traditional Music and Modern Irish Poetry

By: Seán Crosson

£34.99

This book examines how traditional Irish music and song have influenced Irish poets. It looks at this influence historically and in contemporary work, focusing on six key poets, including Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.

Arthur W. Upfield

Life and Times of Bony's Man

By: A. J. Milnor

£34.99

Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective "Bony," rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.

Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective “Bony,” rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.

The Mirror Crack’d

Fear and Horror in JRR Tolkien's Major Works

Edited By: Lynn Forest-Hill

£34.99

How did Tolkien craft such enduring horror? Scholars reveal how he transformed medieval sources, turning landscapes, dragons, the Undead, and even darkness itself into potent symbols that tap into our most deeply rooted fears.

Death Becomes Her

Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth-Century America

Edited By: Elizabeth Dill, Sheri Weinstein

£34.99

From where does our investment in feminine death emerge? These essays analyze women’s deathbed scenes, suicides, murders, and autopsies in American writing, offering fresh insight into the unsettling and highly relevant role of death in feminism.

The Canterbury Tales Revisited – 21st Century Interpretations

Edited By: Kathleen A. Bishop with a Foreword by David Matthews

£39.99

In The Canterbury Tales Revisited, diverse international scholars offer 21st-century interpretations. Articles cover new areas like Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism, with an insightful opening piece by eminent Medievalist David Matthews.

What Do You See? International Perspectives on Children’s Book Illustration

Edited By: Jennifer Harding, Pat Pinsent

From £25.99

This illustrated book explores the diversity of children's book illustration as a space for cultural dialogue. It considers how illustrations from different traditions are histories of art and style that enable us to traverse boundaries and dissolve barriers.

This illustrated book explores the diversity of children’s book illustration as a space for cultural dialogue. It considers how illustrations from different traditions are histories of art and style that enable us to traverse boundaries and dissolve barriers.

Engaging Tradition, Making It New

Essays on Teaching Recent African American Literature

Edited By: Stephanie Brown, Éva Tettenborn

£29.99

Engaging Tradition, Making It New offers fresh scholarly and pedagogical approaches to new African American literature. Focusing on transgression, this collection explores writers who challenge expectations, pointing toward new methods of teaching and research.

Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century

New Critical Essays

Edited By: Heather Ostman

£29.99

This collection of essays updates Kate Chopin scholarship for the 21st century. Breaking from familiar feminist trends, these essays explore her stories and novels through lenses of race, class, gender, and culture, offering fresh readings of The Awakening.

Writing the Other

Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England

Edited By: Mike Pincombe

£34.99

Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England explores the dynamic opposition between the "human" and the "barbarous." These essays reveal how the cultural Other was invented to forge identities, from England to North Africa and the New World.

Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England explores the dynamic opposition between the “human” and the “barbarous.” These essays reveal how the cultural Other was invented to forge identities, from England to North Africa and the New World.

Death and Fantasy

Essays on Philip Pullman, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald and R. L. Stevenson

By: William Gray

From £14.99

This collection of essays explores how a range of fantasy texts deal with the reality of death, uncovering fascinating links and tensions between the writers.

Culture Wars and Literature in the French Third Republic

Edited By: Gilbert D. Chaitin

£34.99

In the French Third Republic (1870-1914), literature was mobilized for political and social warfare. These essays analyze how literature became the site for fierce culture wars over national identity, secular education, women’s liberation, and more.

Reading America

New Perspectives on the American Novel

Edited By: Elizabeth Boyle

£34.99

This collection of essays offers a refreshing perspective on classic American novels. It explores familiar texts through unfamiliar lenses, shedding light on surprising aspects of works by authors from Toni Morrison to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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.

Postcolonialism

South/African Perspectives

Edited By: Michael Chapman

£29.99

Can literature recenter postcolonial studies? Through a South African lens, these essays move beyond theory to the subjective power of literary texts, challenging us to see our interconnected worlds anew.