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Perspectives on Food in Medieval Italian Literature

Edited By: Christiana Purdy Moudarres

£34.99

These essays explore the multifaceted role of food within medieval Italian culture. Through the writings of authors from Dante and Boccaccio to Catherine of Siena, this volume examines the medical, religious, social, and political role of foodways.

Women and Work

The Labors of Self-Fashioning

Edited By: Christine Leiren Mower, Susanne Weil

£44.99

The essays in Women and Work explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being women—encompassing not only paid labor but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity.

The Poetry of Menotti Lerro

Edited By: Andrew Mangham

£29.99

Menotti Lerro is one of the most interesting poets of modern-day Europe. His poetry is concerned with powerful imagery, the vulnerability of the body, memory, and identity. For the first time, Lerro’s verse is available in English.

Back to the Future

Israeli Literature of the 1980s and 1990s

By: Dvir Abramovich

From £24.99

This study opens a fascinating window into Israeli writing of the 1980s and 90s. It links the era's dramatic social and political transformations to the evolution of key literary genres like Holocaust literature, the Mizrachi novel, and detective fiction.

This study opens a fascinating window into Israeli writing of the 1980s and 90s. It links the era’s dramatic social and political transformations to the evolution of key literary genres like Holocaust literature, the Mizrachi novel, and detective fiction.

L’écriture du bonheur dans le roman contemporain

Edited By: Ruth Amar

£39.99

In a world of technology and efficiency, what has become of Happiness? Does it still feature in contemporary fiction? This volume explores the paradoxes and changing forms of Happiness in the novel, from the Holocaust to consumerism and postmodernism.

Fiction, Crime, and the Feminine

Edited By: Rédouane Abouddahab

£39.99

In today's crime fiction, women are the criminals, not just the victims. The genre forsakes the simple "whodunnit," instead exploring the lure of violence and leaving a chilling sense of unrest.

In today’s crime fiction, women are the criminals, not just the victims. The genre forsakes the simple “whodunnit,” instead exploring the lure of violence and leaving a chilling sense of unrest.

Poetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance

Four Essays on Ágnes Nemes Nagy

By: Agnes Lehoczky

£39.99

The first study in English of modernist Hungarian poet Ágnes Nemes Nagy. Through close readings of her poetry and prose, this book explores the relation between language, trauma, and memory, drawing parallels with thinkers like Rilke and Beckett.

Merchants, Barons, Sellers and Suits

The Changing Images of the Businessman through Literature

Edited By: Christa Mahalik

£44.99

This collection of essays investigates the changing image of the businessman throughout literature in America and Europe. From pop culture icons to Willy Loman, the essays are arranged in a timeline, allowing the image to evolve with each chapter.

Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes

Figurational Approaches to American Culture

Edited By: Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, Johannes Voetz

£44.99

This collection applies Norbert Elias’s theory of the “civilizing process” to American history and culture. Scholars explore topics from democracy in the early republic to the modern-day black ghetto, offering new answers to the question of America's peculiar characteristics.

Limerick Constitutional Nationalism, 1898-1918

Change and Continuity

By: Tadhg Moloney

£39.99

This analysis of Limerick politics from 1898-1918 asks if they were driven by local or national concerns. It concludes that politics were intensely local, with greater continuities than ruptures in the composition and behaviour of political elites.

Middle-earth and Beyond

Essays on the World of J. R. R. Tolkien

Edited By: Janka Kaščáková

£34.99

This volume of essays on J.R.R. Tolkien takes new directions and challenges received wisdom. It covers new ground on sources, characters like Tom Bombadil, linguistics, and the environment, taking scholars and readers further into the world of Middle-earth.

Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces

By: Catalina Florina Florescu

£34.99

This book explores liminal bodies and their delicate transactions: the body dying, opened in surgery, or living on through organ replacement. It also analyzes the contemporary body commissioned by mass-media, as seen through film, literature, and art.

Other Voices

Three Centuries of Cultural Dialogue between Russia and Western Europe

Edited By: Graham H. Roberts

£39.99

This volume highlights the diverse cultural dialogue between Russia and Western Europe since the eighteenth century, exploring mutual perceptions, literary comparisons, artistic influences, and pivotal physical encounters.

The Invention of Illusions

International Perspectives on Paul Auster

Edited By: Stefania Ciocia, Jesús A. González

£39.99

International scholars examine Paul Auster’s recent work, viewing him as an inventor of illusions. Not as deceitful gimmickry, but as an imaginative testing of possibilities and the establishment of real bonds between people through storytelling.

Conrad’s Destructive Element

The Metaphysical World-View Unifying Lord Jim

By: Kenneth B. Newell

£34.99

This new interpretation of Lord Jim uses Conrad's manuscript to reveal the novel as a unified whole. It refutes critics by showing how one metaphysical question gives the story a fixed pattern of meaning from beginning to end, just as Conrad claimed.

This new interpretation of Lord Jim uses Conrad’s manuscript to reveal the novel as a unified whole. It refutes critics by showing how one metaphysical question gives the story a fixed pattern of meaning from beginning to end, just as Conrad claimed.

Author of Illusions

Thucydides’ Rewriting of the History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Robert D. Luginbill

£39.99

Pericles brought about the downfall of the Athenian empire. This truth was obscured by Thucydides, who reinvented the Peloponnesian War to absolve Pericles. This book examines how one man created a myth that has lasted millennia, unquestioned by scholars.

Captivity, Past and Present

A Compendium of Observations and Interpretations

Edited By: Benjamin Mark Allen

£34.99

Analyses of human bondage from the early modern era to now. Essays cover 16th-century Spanish sagas, Puritan narratives, the slave narrative of Olaudah Equiano, and incarcerated mothers. Includes an original 19th-century Comanche captivity narrative.

Mapping Experience in Polish and Russian Women’s Writing

Edited By: Urszula Chowaniec

£39.99

This volume discusses the critical views of Polish and Russian women writers from the 19th to 21st centuries. The articles explore constructions of femininity, trauma, body, and sexuality, tracing the parallels and differences in their work.

Factual Fictions

Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel

By: Leonora Flis

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This book explores the American documentary novel's rise in the 1960s alongside New Journalism. Analyzing works by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo, it productively complicates the precarious divide between fact and fiction.

This book explores the American documentary novel’s rise in the 1960s alongside New Journalism. Analyzing works by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo, it productively complicates the precarious divide between fact and fiction.

The Genesis of Genesis

The Mytho-Empiricism of Creation

By: Shlomo Giora Shoham

£44.99

The Genesis of Genesis compares creation myths of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Mesopotamia with the Judaic cosmogony of Genesis. It contrasts their deterministic mythologies with the unique Judaic reliance on the word as the creative agent.