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(Re)Reading Hispanic Naturalism

Edited By: Lara Anderson, J. P. Spicer-Escalante

£44.99

The essays in this collection propose a major revision of Hispanic naturalism. Reframing it as a phenomenon that transcends time, they demonstrate how naturalist texts–literary and filmic–engage societal problems from the 19th century to the present day.

“And that’s true too”

New Essays on King Lear

Edited By: Pierre Iselin, François Laroque

£39.99

Provocative new essays re-examine King Lear through the lens of early modern desire, sexuality, and gender, offering fresh philosophical and aesthetic insights into Shakespeare's elusive and powerful tragedy.

The European Avant-Garde

Text and Image

Edited By: Selena Daly, Monica Insinga

£44.99

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores European Avant-Garde movements (1900-1940) in text and image. Covering movements like Futurism and Surrealism, it examines themes of the body, translation, identity, and exile.

Close Relations

Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre

Edited By: Paul Monaghan

£52.99

This book applies insights from the “spatial turn” to Greek and Roman theatre. It explores the complex interweaving of space-time, the relations between ancient theatrical space, and how it has been interpreted and transformed throughout history.

New Wests and Post-Wests

Literature and Film of the American West

Edited By: Paul S. Varner

£44.99

This collection offers critical approaches to an American West that never was—a mythic space, not a geographical place. New scholarship explores multiple "New Wests" in film and literature, moving beyond traditional views with unique international perspectives.

This collection offers critical approaches to an American West that never was—a mythic space, not a geographical place. New scholarship explores multiple “New Wests” in film and literature, moving beyond traditional views with unique international perspectives.

Art and the Artist in Society

Edited By: Jane Elizabeth Alberdeston, Elsa Luciano Feal, José Jiménez-Justiniano

£49.99

This compilation of essays examines the nexus between artists, their art, and society. Through a diverse group of artists, it explores important issues like the representation of the Other and the construction of the self, offering fascinating insights.

Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama

Edited By: René Agostini, Madelena Gonzalez

£52.99

What is the value of art in an age of corporatized knowledge? This volume explores the crucial intersection of aesthetics and ideology. Through a wide range of international examples, these essays argue that the arts are fundamental to any progress in society.

Alienation and Resistance

Representation in Text and Image

Edited By: Laura Findlay, Gordon Spark

£44.99

This collection examines representations of alienation and resistance across diverse media. Essays explore these themes in everything from 16th-century drama to modern comics and film, asking: what are the roles, forms, and conditions of these forces in our culture?

Lolita between Adaptation and Interpretation

From Nabokov's Novel and Screenplay to Kubrick's Film

By: Anna Pilińska

£41.99

Presenting an analysis of three versions of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, this investigation explores how Nabokov envisioned his creation rendered in a movie, and the divergences between this and said adaptation.

William Morris and the Art of Everyday Life

Edited By: Wendy Parkins

£34.99

For William Morris, beauty in daily life was revolutionary. These essays explore how the everyday—from domestic interiors to utopian socialism—informed his art, politics, and radical call for social transformation, a vision that remains powerfully relevant.

The Flâneur Abroad

Historical and International Perspectives

Edited By: Richard Wrigley

£49.99

This volume offers new perspectives on the flâneur, mapping the figure’s travels beyond Paris. It explores the flâneur in international cities and across visual media, revising stereotypes and reconsidering the nature of this cultural icon.

Transgressing Women

Space and The Body in Contemporary Noir Thrillers

By: Jamaluddin Aziz

£44.99

Transgressing Women focuses on the 'other' female characters of the noir world, beyond the femme fatale. The book traces these transgressive figures in contemporary novels and films, analyzing their dramatic evolution through feminist and postmodernist theory.

Transgressing Women focuses on the ‘other’ female characters of the noir world, beyond the femme fatale. The book traces these transgressive figures in contemporary novels and films, analyzing their dramatic evolution through feminist and postmodernist theory.

Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama

A Study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard

By: Mufti Mudasir

£39.99

This study reveals Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard as postmodern playwrights. Their contradictory dramas subvert theatrical convention to challenge our very understanding of truth, history, and the human subject.

Authenticity and Legitimacy in Minority Theatre

Constructing Identity

Edited By: Patrice Brasseur, Madelena Gonzalez

£44.99

For ethno-cultural minorities, theatre is a vital space to denounce injustice, explore past trauma, and forge new identities. But should it seek mainstream visibility or remain on the margins to assert its cultural authenticity? This volume tackles these questions.

Women and Gothic

Edited By: Maria Purves

£44.99

This collection of essays explores women’s complex relationship with the gothic. From novels to hypertext fiction, it reveals the scope, intensity, and risks of this evolution, challenging our understanding of why women engage with the gothic.

Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture

Edited By: Justyna Stępień

£47.99

This collection of essays traces the evolution of kitsch and camp aesthetics in popular culture and the avant-garde. From diverse theoretical perspectives, it provides a much-needed commentary on the function of these aesthetics today.

Explorations in Southern African Drama, Theatre and Performance

By: Patrick J. Ebewo

£61.99

Ebewo’s text represents a compendium of discourses on black African drama, theatre and performance in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland. The topics covered include ritual practices, interventionist approaches to drama, and the funeral rites of Nelson Mandela.

The Still Life in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt

By: Elizabeth Hicks

£39.99

This book explores A. S. Byatt's visual and verbal still lifes. It shows how her rich descriptions celebrate realism, textual pleasure, and sexuality, while also revealing character and class, and teasing out the tension between living passion and "cold" artwork.

This book explores A. S. Byatt’s visual and verbal still lifes. It shows how her rich descriptions celebrate realism, textual pleasure, and sexuality, while also revealing character and class, and teasing out the tension between living passion and “cold” artwork.

The Idea of the City

Early-Modern, Modern and Post-Modern Locations and Communities

Edited By: Joan Fitzpatrick

£39.99

An important and timely work with depth and breadth. International scholars explore the city in literature, history, and film from the medieval period to the present. With a truly global focus, this is a fascinating snapshot of literary urban studies.

Adapting Gaskell

Screen and Stage Versions of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction

Edited By: Loredana Salis

£39.99

This collection charts the adaptation of Gaskell’s fiction, placing her alongside authors like Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens. It will surely prompt more investigations into the adaptability of her work. – Deborah Cartmell