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The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas

Edited By: Brenda M. Greene

£34.99

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the persistence of African cultural traditions in the Americas. Scholars explore how people of the African diaspora used literature, music, dance, and religion to survive and resist colonialism and racism.

Educating the ‘Unconstant Rabble’

Arguments for Educational Advancement and Reform during the English Civil War and Interregnum

By: Ann McGruer

£39.99

The English Revolution was a revolution in reading. While the state sought to restrict access to potentially dangerous ideas, key thinkers argued for the opposite: extending education to equip the emerging ‘reading public’ to take an active part in political life.

The Apparelling of Truth

Literature and Literary Culture in the Reign of James VI; A Festschrift for Roderick J. Lyall

Edited By: Kevin J. McGinley, Nicola Royan

£44.99

This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the literature and culture of the reign of James VI. Its emphasis is on the continuities in literary culture throughout his rule, extending beyond the court to regional and international contexts.

Exploring Space

Spatial Notions in Cultural, Literary and Language Studies; Volume 1

Edited By: Andrzej Ciuk, Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska

£49.99

This two-volume collection offers a comprehensive insight into how the category of space can inform original philological research. The first volume covers cultural and literary studies, while the second refers to English language studies.

Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations

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

£44.99

This collection of essays questions the traditional supremacy of Chaucer while reaffirming his lasting impact. Scholars explore his influence on writers like Shakespeare, offer a modern assessment of the Wife of Bath, and discuss making Chaucer relevant today.

Counterpoints

Edward Said’s Legacy

Edited By: Stephanie Tara Schwartz, May Telmissany

£39.99

Revolving around Edward Said's theme of “counterpoint,” this book explores his contribution to the humanities. Overshadowed by his political positions, Said’s intellectual achievements should be acknowledged. This book pays tribute to his academic and humanistic legacy.

Revolving around Edward Said’s theme of “counterpoint,” this book explores his contribution to the humanities. Overshadowed by his political positions, Said’s intellectual achievements should be acknowledged. This book pays tribute to his academic and humanistic legacy.

The Survival of Myth

Innovation, Singularity and Alterity

Edited By: Paul Hardwick, David Kennedy

£39.99

What are myths? The Survival of Myth explores the continuing power of primal stories to inhabit our thinking. Contributors examine figures from the Bible to Cormac McCarthy to show how ancient stories give access to the unconscious and transform society.

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi

A Taste for Eccentricity

By: Marianna D’Ezio

£39.99

More than a hostess or a footnote to Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a pioneering writer. This volume links her subversive biography to her innovative works, revealing how a scandalous marriage launched her career as a public author.

This “Self” Which Is Not One

Women’s Life Writing in French

Edited By: Natalie Edwards, Christopher Hogarth

£34.99

This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.

Writing America into the Twenty-First Century

Essays on the American Novel

Edited By: Elizabeth Boyle, Anne-Marie Evans

£34.99

This collection of essays presents a refreshing analysis of recent American fiction. Interrogating works by authors like Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy, it offers a new way to examine the American novel in the twenty-first century.

Vendetta

Essays on Honor and Revenge

Edited By: Giovanna Summerfield

£34.99

This volume provides a riveting account of revenge as a muse in modern literature. It analyzes Hispanic, Italian, and French texts, exploring chivalric avenges, codes of honor, and the patient craftiness of women in a unique collection of topics.

“Imperialists in Broken Boots”

Poor Whites and Philanthropy in Southern African Writing

By: Julie Cairnie

£34.99

This book argues that in Southern Africa, ‘poor white’ was not a narrow economic category but a term for those who threatened to collapse racial, sexual, and class boundaries. It studies writers who either embraced this threat or argued for a solution.

Between Myth and Reality

Goethe, Anna Amalia, Charlotte von Stein

By: Dan Farrelly

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Ghibellino's provocative thesis claimed Goethe’s beloved was not Charlotte von Stein but Duchess Anna Amalia. Dan Farrelly meticulously re-reads Goethe’s letters, refuting this thesis and proving that Charlotte was the true addressee.

Ghibellino’s provocative thesis claimed Goethe’s beloved was not Charlotte von Stein but Duchess Anna Amalia. Dan Farrelly meticulously re-reads Goethe’s letters, refuting this thesis and proving that Charlotte was the true addressee.

James Joyce and After

Writer and Time

Edited By: Katarzyna Bazarnik, Bożena Kucała

£39.99

This volume of essays examines time in literature, from the modernist revolution initiated by Joyce to the present. It offers new readings of Joyce’s work and explores subjective time in writers like Coetzee and collective experience in post-9/11 fiction.

Representations of Illness in Literature and Film

By: Bennett Kravitz

£34.99

This book examines how syndromes, disorders, and diseases appear in modern literature and film. Rather than being portrayed as a handicap, limitation becomes the hero, allowing previous outcasts into the mainstream to affirm their moral worth, skill and intelligence.

Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe

Edited By: Filomena Viana Guarda, Adriana Martins, Helena Gonçalves da Silva

£44.99

This book discusses memory construction associated with war, genocide, and colonialism. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of how conflict memories reshape history and identity, destabilizing fixed meanings and clarifying our invisible bonds to the past.

Greece and Britain since 1945

Edited By: David Wills

£34.99

This book explores the transformation of Anglo-Greek relations since 1945. With contributions from leading academics and journalists, it focuses on cultural perceptions, covering literature, the work of aid agencies, and television series set in Greece.

Dickens and Italy

Little Dorrit and Pictures from Italy

Edited By: Marialuisa Bignami, Michael Hollington

£39.99

Dickens's relationship with America has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so. His stay there represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book focuses on his major Italian writings, Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit.

Dickens’s relationship with America has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so. His stay there represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book focuses on his major Italian writings, Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit.

Metamorphoses of Travel Writing

Across Theories, Genres, Centuries and Literary Traditions

Edited By: Grzegorz Moroz

£39.99

This book adds to the fast-growing field of travel writing studies. Its papers use varied theoretical approaches to explore a diverse body of texts—fictional, non-fictional, and poetry—from the last 300 years and from multiple literary traditions.

To Test the Limits of Our Endurance

By: Shlomo Giora Shoham

£44.99

A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.