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Literatures of War

Edited By: Eve Patten, Richard Pine

£39.99

War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.

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.

Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns

Essays on Fiction and Culture

Edited By: Penny Gay, Judith Johnston

£34.99

Essays by international scholars explore Victorian writers like Dickens and Eliot in their cultural context. The collection then examines NeoVictorian returns in contemporary literature and film, revealing the era's ongoing dialogue with the modern world.

Shakespeare and His Collaborators over the Centuries

Edited By: Pavel Drábek, Klára Kolinská, Matthew Nicholls

£34.99

This book explores the cultural notion of “Shakespeare.” His collaborators are not only his contemporaries but all who give his works new life as plays, films, and novels, collaborating in both a literal and figurative sense.

New Directions in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism

Edited By: Andrea Campbell

£29.99

These essays on ecofeminist literary criticism highlight the intersections of environment, race, class, and gender oppression. Analyzing authors from Kingsolver to Nwapa, this collection expands the discussion to a global scale and environmental justice.

H. G. Wells

Interdisciplinary Essays

Edited By: Steven McLean

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H. G. Wells is known for his ‘scientific romances,’ but he was a polymath. This collection of new essays examines his varied writings, from works like The Time Machine to lesser-known novels, assessing his lasting philosophical and political impact.

Making the Stage

Essays on the Changing Concept of Theatre, Drama, and Performance

Edited By: Ann C. Hall

£34.99

In an increasingly technological and isolated culture, theatre seems a primitive art form. Yet these essays reveal that theatre not only survives but defines the vital political discussions prohibited by a manipulated media.

Schoolhouse Gothic

Haunted Hallways and Predatory Pedagogues in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature and Scholarship

By: Sherry R. Truffin

£29.99

The Schoolhouse Gothic draws on Gothic metaphors—curses of power inequities, schools as traps—to interrogate American education. It suggests something sinister lies behind the academy's benevolent exterior, producing paranoia, violence, and monstrosity.

The Schoolhouse Gothic draws on Gothic metaphors—curses of power inequities, schools as traps—to interrogate American education. It suggests something sinister lies behind the academy’s benevolent exterior, producing paranoia, violence, and monstrosity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Death and Fantasy

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

By: William Gray

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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.

Writing the Other

Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England

Edited By: Mike Pincombe

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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.

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.

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.

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

Edited By: Jennifer Harding, Pat Pinsent

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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.

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.

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 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.