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Uncovering Caledonia

An Introduction to Scottish Studies

By: Milena Kaličanin

£61.99

Uncover the burning cultural issues of modern Scotland from a non-native point of view. This book offers insight through the analysis of Scottish folk tales, legends, literature, and film, appealing to both scholars and the general reader.

Space and Events

Spatial PPs and Motion VPs

By: Sameerah Tawfeeq Saeed

£52.99

This book offers a new perspective on the syntax and semantics of spatial adpositions, presenting them as Relators in motion events. It provides a syntactic-semantic model and analyses equivalent elements across English, Kurdish and Arabic.

The Heroic Female

Redefining the Role of the Heroine in the Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri

By: Stephanie Laggini Fiore

£34.99

This re-reading of Vittorio Alfieri's tragedies challenges traditional analyses that marginalize the female character. It argues that Alfieri undermines traditional gender roles, portraying his heroines as determined, active, and intelligent women.

This re-reading of Vittorio Alfieri’s tragedies challenges traditional analyses that marginalize the female character. It argues that Alfieri undermines traditional gender roles, portraying his heroines as determined, active, and intelligent women.

Anna Seward’s Journal and Sermons

Edited By: Teresa Barnard

£61.99

Barnard restores the juvenile journal of Anna Seward, eighteenth-century poet, biographer, and letter-writer, to its original format, making the case for Seward’s importance as a social and cultural commentator.

Romanticism and Parenting

Image, Instruction and Ideology

Edited By: Carolyn Weber

£29.99

How do parents encode and decode our world? Romantic writers explored what it meant to “parent” in the domestic and political sphere. This collection reveals how the Romantic period has come to profoundly influence our own current constructions of the politics of parenting.

Notional Identities

Ideology, Genre and National Identity in Popular Scottish Fiction Since the Seventies

By: Thomas Christie

£44.99

This book examines popular Scottish speculative and crime fiction from the 1970s onward, investigating how these works engaged with national identity, a tumultuous political climate, and their relationship to mainstream literary writing.

Contested Identities

Literary Negotiations in Time and Place

Edited By: Roger Nicholson, Gertrud Szamosi, Claudia Marquis

£52.99

These essays address the force of literary texts on problematic identities. They explore texts that travel across borders, discovering in difference the very condition for a useful, if paradoxical, sense of personal or textual coherence.

John Steinbeck in East European Translation

A Bibliographical and Descriptive Overview

By: Danica Čerče

£58.99

Čerče narrows a huge gap in regard to Steinbeck translations in Eastern Europe, here considered in terms of the political division between Western Europe and the Soviet East. As the only book of its kind, it makes a major contribution to Steinbeck and American literature studies.

Literature and the Monarchy

The Traditional and the Modern Concept of the Office of Poet Laureate of England

By: Ewa Panecka

£44.99

This book explores the Poet Laureateship from the Restoration to today, revealing the symbolic link it forges between literature, the Monarchy, and national identity.

Afroeuropean Cartographies

Edited By: Dominic Thomas

£41.99

Writers with roots in Africa navigate new terrains and racialized identities in Europe. Through vibrant literature, they redefine identity and imagine the contours of a diverse, inclusive Europe, reckoning with its colonial history and its legacy.

As Mirrors Are Lonely

A Lacanian Reading on the Modern Irish Novel

By: Peter Guy

£47.99

This new study investigates how Irish writers since the sixties have responded to a changing world, re-examining their work through the theory of Jacques Lacan. It focuses on John McGahern, Brian Moore and John Broderick, exploring gender and family.

The Female Voice in The Assembly of Ladies

Text and Context in Fifteenth-Century England

By: Simone Celine Marshall

£34.99

This book examines gender relations in The Assembly of Ladies, a rare fifteenth-century poem told from a woman’s point of view. It shows how social and literary conventions impact women in the production and consumption of literature.

New Literatures of Old

Dialogues of Tradition and Innovation in Anglophone Literature

Edited By: Dídac Llorens-Cubedo, José Ramón Prado-Pérez

£34.99

Artistic creativity is fuelled by dialogues between the past and the present. This book explores how these exchanges become active agents of intervention, creating spaces of dialogue and confrontation when establishing the cultural identity of a community.

The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Edited By: Elyssa Warkentin

£47.99

Out of the London fog, a mysterious stranger seeks lodging, but a horrifying secret lurks behind his gentlemanly façade. Can Mrs Bunting uncover his true nature and avert disaster? This thriller was the first novelization of the "Jack the Ripper" murders.

The Golden Age

Nostalgia in Word and Image

Edited By: Chris Murray, Elizabeth Rogers, Jeffrey W. Smith

£41.99

This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term ‘The Golden Age’, and its connection to feelings of nostalgia from a range of perspectives, with a strong focus on the relationship between word and image.

The New Criticism

Formalist Literary Theory in America

Edited By: Alfred J. Drake

£34.99

This volume traces the history and theories of the New Criticism school. It assesses the New Critics' lasting influence, examining how their work has been contextualized, criticized, and valorized by subsequent theorists and educators.

This volume traces the history and theories of the New Criticism school. It assesses the New Critics’ lasting influence, examining how their work has been contextualized, criticized, and valorized by subsequent theorists and educators.

Literary and Cultural Intersections during the Long Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Marianna D’Ezio

£29.99

This collection of essays explores the intersections of public and private life in eighteenth-century Britain, an era of major change. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on canonical works, cultural exchange, fashion, gossip, and gender issues.

The Social, Cultural and Spiritual Dimensions of Modern Indian Poetry in English

Edited By: Vijay Kumar Roy

£61.99

This volume brings together research on the poetry of less-explored modern Indian poets. The book explores the social, cultural and spiritual dimensions of these emerging poets, and will prove useful to students, teachers and all those interested in Indian English poetry.

Words of Crisis, Crisis of Words

Ireland and the Representation of Critical Times

Edited By: María Losada Friend, Pilar Ron Vaz, Auxiliadora Pérez Vides

£47.99

Authored by specialists in Irish Studies, this title provides reflections on the broad topic of crisis and Ireland, its description and representation, and the different ways in which difficulties have been discussed, imagined, or even solved within the Irish context.

The Soul in the Axiosphere from an Intercultural Perspective, Volume Two

Edited By: Joanna Jurewicz, Ewa Masłowska, Dorota Pazio-Wlazłowska

From £30.99

This volume gathers evaluations of the soul from artistic, mystic, and theological perspectives. Explore the concept of the soul in its ethical and emotional dimensions across global cultures, from Christian and Oriental traditions to those of Ancient Egypt.