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The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763)

Edited By: Alain Kerhervé

£49.99

In 1763, The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was the first manual exclusively for women in eighteenth-century Britain. It questioned pre-conceived ideas on women and their writing. Unedited since 1765, it is now presented with a new introduction and notes.

Positioning the New

Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon

Edited By: Elisabetta Marino, Tanfer Emin Tunc

£39.99

This volume explores Chinese American authors' place in the Western literary canon. It questions not only whether this literature is inside or outside the canon, but if a canon should exist at all, probing the by-products of cultural fusion and collision.

This volume explores Chinese American authors’ place in the Western literary canon. It questions not only whether this literature is inside or outside the canon, but if a canon should exist at all, probing the by-products of cultural fusion and collision.

Ungrateful Daughters

Third Wave Feminist Writings

By: Justyna Wlodarczyk

£34.99

Has the third wave of feminism spawned a literary movement? This book analyzes the fiction, memoirs, and anthologies of third wave writers like Rebecca Walker and Michelle Tea, defining a unique “third wave sensibility” and asking: does literary success help women’s liberation?

Shakespeare’s Greek Drama Secret

By: Myron Stagman

£49.99

This book presents striking textual correspondences between Greek and Shakespearean plays. It proves William Shakespeare became “Shakespeare” because of his mastery of the ancient Greek treasury of Drama, where images like Lady Macbeth's cruelty first appear.

Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte

His Life and Times

By: Michael Duke

£39.99

Bony was a “blacktracker” who became a police inspector and worked throughout Australia. For the first time, learn of the real Bony and the Aboriginal background to his cases. This biography displays the real spirit of Australia!

New Perspectives on Sartre

Edited By: Adrian van den Hoven, Adrian Mirvish

£49.99

Leading scholars from philosophy, psychology, and history cast new light on Sartre. This volume deliberately stresses a middle and final period of his work, exploring diverse topics and offering new insights on authenticity, freedom, and ethics.

Interiors

Interiority/Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse

Edited By: Katarzyna Nowak, Sonia Front

£39.99

These essays explore the borderland between interiors and exteriors. Where do we draw dividing lines? Can we afford not to distinguish between the inside and outside, between “us” and “them”? This volume presents a plethora of answers.

One is Never Alone with a Rubber Duck

Douglas Adams’s Absurd Fictional Universe

By: Marilette van der Colff

£34.99

Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker Series is not merely light-hearted comedy, but is underpinned by philosophical ideas like Existentialism and absurdity. It investigates madness as subjective reality and uses aliens to satirise the human condition.

Arctic Discourses

Edited By: Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski, Henning Howlid Wærp

£44.99

This volume investigates how accounts of the Arctic have shaped history. It examines the discourse of “Arcticism,” modelled on Orientalism, and intersecting narratives of imperialism, science, and indigeneity across a wide range of genres.

“Rapt in Secret Studies”

Emerging Shakespeares

Edited By: Laurie Johnson

£44.99

Inspired by Prospero’s phrase “rapt in secret studies,” this collection of essays from emerging scholars imagines new pathways in Shakespeare Studies, exploring themes of obsession (“rapt”), spies and contagion (“secret”), and authorship (“study”).

We Won’t Make It Out Alive

Patrick McCabe and the Horrors of the Irish Mundane

By: Kate Walls

£34.99

A study of Patrick McCabe’s work. Beneath the grotesque and funny narratives of his characters lurk similar pasts of cruelty and abuse. This book discusses how these childhood traumas and Irish social upheaval drive McCabe's narrators crazy.

Humanism and Christian Letters in Early Modern Iberia (1480-1630)

Edited By: Alejandro Coroleu

£39.99

These essays examine the influence of Christian Latin literature upon the Latin and vernacular letters of the Iberian Peninsula (1480–1630). Contrary to most studies, this volume accommodates authors writing in Portuguese, Catalan, and Latin.

Realism’s Others

Edited By: Eva Aldea, Geoffrey Baker

£44.99

Challenging the idea that realism promotes sameness, this volume argues that realist narratives actively create otherness. Essays examine how collisions of class, gender, and nationality reveal the strategies of constructing difference in realist and postmodern texts.

Critical Perspectives on Literature and Culture in the New World Order

Edited By: Washima Che Dan, Jason Sanjeev Ganesan, Noritah Omar

£39.99

This volume offers critical perspectives on literature and culture, contesting the New World Order and the hegemony of stronger nations. With a significant focus on Islam, it challenges academic discourses founded upon Western-style scholarship.

On the Borders of Convention

Edited By: Aleksandra Nikčević Batrićević

£39.99

International scholars offer a varied picture of our changing world, discussing the shifting borders of convention in literature, culture, film, music, and art. These complex essays offer fresh views that will stimulate intellectual debate.

Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism

Edited By: Sebnem Toplu, Şebnem Toplu

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Twenty-first century crises demand a re-evaluation of modernism and postmodernism. This collection of essays by international scholars offers new perspectives on literature, film, art, and politics, navigating debates beyond the traditional dichotomy.

Anna Banti and the (Im)possibility of Love

By: Wissia Fiorucci

£34.99

This book explores Banti’s Italian feminism, focusing on her interpretation of “equality” versus “sexual difference.” Through an analysis of her novels and short stories, it argues that Banti embraced a feminism of difference to preserve woman's identity.

Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing

Edited By: Paul Salzman

£39.99

This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing introduces little-known writers and offers new critical strategies. The authors explore diverse genres, integrating literary history with religion, legal issues, and genre questions.

Contingencies and Masterly Fictions

Countertextuality in Dickens, Contemporary Fiction and Theory

By: Lauren Watson

£39.99

This book establishes deconstructive dialogues between Dickens's novels, contemporary literature, and post-structuralist theory. This countertextual reading exposes instability in writing, but also in racial and gender identities, developing a new poetics of theory.

This book establishes deconstructive dialogues between Dickens’s novels, contemporary literature, and post-structuralist theory. This countertextual reading exposes instability in writing, but also in racial and gender identities, developing a new poetics of theory.

Word and Rite

The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works

Edited By: Beatrice Batson

£34.99

This book shows how the Bible and Christian tradition intersect the language of Shakespeare. It focuses on how rites illuminate mysteries and how ceremony turns mayhem into mystery. In Shakespeare, word and rite are as inseparable as word and sacrament in worship.