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Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment.
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Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic
Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic has resonance for all newly global reckonings of the cultural Cold War.
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Dialogues on Beckett
‘Dialogues on Beckett’ is a collection of 12 conversations about 12 plays by Samuel Beckett, discussions about the meaning of life and the universe between an agnostic and a Christian, based on a close reading of the text.
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American Literary Naturalism
The book collects Pizer’s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism.
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Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators
‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ is the first book to bring together global debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade and Australian minority writers, linking them to globalisation and transnationalism in cultural studies.
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Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine
Thomas Keneally: world success story or Australian writer who never fulfilled early potential? ‘Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine’ explains the disparate opinions, charting his writing’s production and reception as shaping a literary career. It tracks tensions between literary and...
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Reaganism in Literary Theory
Largely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man’s replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies preserved a discourse of devotion and disqualification homologous with Reaganism. This negative moralism shelters professional privilege and competition from scrutiny, s...
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Sexual Violence and Literary Art
Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women’s philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.
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W. H. Davies
This book brings together, for the first time, a collection of articles from leading scholars on the writing, and literary and social contexts, of the ‘tramp-poet’ and memoirist W. H. Davies (1871–1940).
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Raymond Federman and Samuel Beckett
This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist.
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Roland Barthes Writing the Political
Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self re-reads and re-purposes for the twenty-first century France’s most important writer of the twentieth century. It argues that Barthes’s wide-ranging analyses – from Voltaire to Nietzsche, Marx to myth, gay love to Japan – can be appl...
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The new aestheticism
The interest in aesthetics in Philosophy, Literary and Cultural Studies is growing rapidly. 'The new aestheticism' contains exemplary essays by key practitioners in these fields which demonstrate the importance of this area of enquiry.
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French origins of English tragedy
Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period.
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The wounds of nations
Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as memb...
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The senses in early modern England, 1558–1660
Considering a wide range of early modern texts, performances and artworks, the essays in this collection demonstrate how attention to the senses illuminates the literature, art and culture of early modern England.
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Beckett and Nothing
The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett’s poetics through the notion of ‘nothing’, analysed in its many incarnations in Beckett’s prose works, plays, TV plays and adaptations.
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A Trick to Catch the Old One
First single edition of one of Thomas Middleton's most popular plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama and Renaissance literature
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Painful pleasures
The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinkier side of human sexualities, a side that in fact could not be more central to a study of our culture.
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Doris Lessing
This book examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel. This is the first significant book-length critical evaluation in ten years.
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Anywhere out of the world
Incorporating original and extensive archival research, as well as new interviews with his family and friends, Anywhere Out of the World provides the definitive critical perspective upon the literary life and work of this enigmatic and influential author.
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Penny Dreadfuls
This study participates in the ongoing scholarly effort to re-appraise the penny dreadful phenomenon as a cornerstone of literary history and of popular culture, both within the nineteenth century and the development of Victorian popular fiction and beyond its specific context. The growing presen...
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Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin
Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspiratio...
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Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo
Informed by fourth-wave feminism, Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely reading of crime fiction in the age of #MeToo. The book explores five major fourth-wave feminist topics, #MeToo, rape culture, toxic masculinity, LBGTQ+ perspectives, and transgender. These topic...
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The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry
The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry is the first book-length study of the contemporary poetry industry. By documenting radical changes over the past decade in the way poems are published, marketed, and circulated, it connects the seemingly small world of poetry with the other, ...
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Samuel Richardson as Anonymous Editor and Printer
During the first two decades of his career, Richardson’s role as printer was hardly limited to setting the type for the periodicals that issued from his shop. Perhaps the most glaring evidence of his intervention in producing text is the fact that both The True Briton (1723-24) and The Weekly Mis...
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The dome of thought
The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular accounts found in contemporary newspapers and journals, the majority of this material being reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century.
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Reimagining North African immigration
An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the depiction of immigration from North Africa in contemporary French culture.
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Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity
‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ investigates the interaction between suburbs and suburbia in a century-long series of Australian novels. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric of Australian fiction in dialogue with its evocative and imaginative rendering of subu...
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Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy
By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative...
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Incest in contemporary literature
This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, ...
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Rethinking Therapeutic Reading
Through a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology, ‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.
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The Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington
This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) and offers the first detailed analysis of her four travel books.
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Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century
‘Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century’ is a collection of essays about a novelist who once was the ‘second most famous Englishwoman in the world’ after Queen Victoria and whose books broke every previous sales record. The essays account for Corelli’s popularity and reintroduce h...
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Beckett and Broadcasting
Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation defended at Åbo Akademi University (Finland), it has long been out of print. It is here republished with a sizeable new introduction focusing on the role of radio in Beckett’s œuvre.
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Late Victorian Orientalism
Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) in order to investi...
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American literature and Irish culture, 1910–55
This book discusses how and why American modernist writers turned to Ireland at various stages during their careers. By placing events such as the Celtic Revival and the Easter Rising at the centre of the discussion, it shows how Irishness became a cultural determinant in the work of American mod...
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A clockwork counterpoint
A Clockwork Counterpoint is the first book to examine the musical side of Anthony Burgess, an astonishingly prolific, underrated and talented composer, revealing how his lifelong involvement in music is an essential key toward understanding his life and work. Whether explaining the sonata form st...
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From Republic to Restoration
Explores the diffuse impact of the civil wars and the Republic on the Restoration
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Precarious spectatorship
This book is about the ways in which western spectators are bombarded with ‘emergencies’ by our press and political institutions. It examines the effect that this has on us and how theatre and performance can try to counteract that effect.
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John McGahern
This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer’s legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways, expanding the boundaries ...
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Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries
This volume considers classical mythology in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The eleven essays approach tropes and figures from multiple perspectives: genre, gender, translation, classical reception and history.
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Reading as a Philosophical Practice
This book asks why reading matters so much to so many people. Its answer is that reading is a philosophical activity: a way of working through, and taking a stand on, fundamental questions about who and what we are, how we should live, and how we relate to other things.
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Shakespeare and Spenser
Innovative approach and study of Spenser's literature. Original ideas and perspectives methodolodgy when studying Spenser. Will appeal to wide market of Renaissance students.
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Texts and readers in the Age of Marvell
Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural moments.
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Robert Louis Stevenson and theories of reading
This book, an innovative combination of literary history and reception theory, draws upon Robert Louis Stevenson’s fiction and literary essays to argue that Stevenson both exemplified tensions within the literary market of his time and anticipated later developments in reading theory.
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California Gothic: The Dark Side of the Dream
California Gothic explores the California dream and its dark inversion as a nightmare, as illustrated in fiction, poetry, and film. California began as a literary invention, a magic island, in a Spanish romance before conquistadors first visited the land. From early days to the present, the Calif...
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Julian Barnes
A detailed study of the fiction of Julian Barnes from Metroland to Arthur & George. Approachable, student friendly and comprehensive analysis of all Barnes’s novels
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The early Spenser, 1554–80
Brink shows that Spenser began as the protégé of churchmen, who expected him to take holy orders and that the Shepheardes Calender signaled his transition from shepherd-priest to shepherd-poet. A
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Writing disenchantment
Analyses the phenomenon of literary disenchantment after the First World War
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She-wolf
She-Wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature.
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Anthony Burgess and modernity
A valuable collection of essays that look at Anthony Burgess's relationship with Modernism and postmodernity
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Aesthetics of contingency
A study of how literature responds to conditions of political uncertainty, this book rewrites much of what we thought we knew about civil war and Restoration literature. Rather than sparking a decisive break with the past, for many the seventeenth-century’s civil wars opened onto a resolutely ind...
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The penny politics of Victorian popular fiction
Penny politics explores how and why Victorian popular literature from the 1830s and 1840s appealed to politicised, intermittently radicalised working-class audiences by supplementing its violent, counter-cultural entertainments with openly political content.
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Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry
This book looks at how Renaissance poets ended their poetic lines. It considers a range of strategies and argues that line endings are crucial to our understanding of the poems.
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Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 1985–2015
The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to addicts than the Western realistic novel traditionally has offered.
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Forms of faith
This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on negotiation instead of escalation, thirteen distinguished international scholars explore the specific ways available to mediate, displace or suspend c...
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Literature and Transformation
An inquiry into readers’ experiences of life-changing encounters with works of literature, the book uncovers the relationships between life-crises, being moved by literature and transformation of the self.
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Mabo’s Cultural Legacy
This book examines the broader impacts on Australian culture and cultural practice of the Australian High Court’s landmark Mabo decision of 1992. It considers how history, linguistics and anthropology as well as film, fiction, poetry and memoir writing have been challenged or transformed by Mabo.
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William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795
William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blake’s wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early illuminated works, and reveals the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing.
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Gulf Gothic
Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas.
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Mid-century gothic
Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with optimism about the future. By reassessing the novels, films, visual culture and technologies of the period, the book argues that gothicism itself was...
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Chris Abani
Touching on global issues such as violence, sexual abuse, gender, performativity, marginality, migration and human rights, Abani’s work testifies to the centrality of his literary voice in the contemporary literary panorama. This book shows how aesthetics overlaps with ethics and how forms of ext...
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The life of Una Marson, 1905–65
This is an original, full length biography of Britain’s first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, playwright, and social activist and BBC broadcaster. Una Marson is recognised today as the first major woman poet of the Caribbean and as a significant forerunner of contemporary bl...
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Graveyard Gothic
This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video games. The chapters incorporate discussion of Gothic texts from around the world, offering a compelling new account of the graveyard’s importance as a key location for Gothic art an...
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Doing Kyd
Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a ‘pattern and precedent’ for the golden generation of early modern playwrights.
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Arguments for a theatre
There is no-one else in theatre who takes this position There is a lack of books on serious theatre theory Written in a particularly accessible form.
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The Tamer Tamed; or, The Woman’s Prize
This is the first edition for students and general readers of a pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's 'The Tamer of the Shrew' written in Shakespeare's lifetime . Co-edited by a feminist critic and a distinguished textual scholar, it makes clear why 'The Tamer Tamed' should be restored to the theatric...
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Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760–1830
In this fascinating study, Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain. In particular, she discusses British women’s engagement with the Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, and his unsettling discovery ...
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Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson features 16 new and exciting essays on the noted American author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fiction and nonfiction.
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The art of The Faerie Queene
The Art of The Faerie Queene offers a new approach to Spenser’s massive Elizabethan epic, presenting it is as a formally radical and innovative text. Where previous criticism has presented Spenser as a conservative technician, this book explores his unexpected experiments with form in the service...
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Volpone, or The Fox
The most thoroughly investigated edition of Volpone to date
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The politics of Middle English parables
This study explores how writers reconciled provocative biblical stories with late-medieval culture. Highlighting the many variations and points of conflict across renditions of the same story, the book unfolds a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christ...
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Ballads and songs of Peterloo
This is an edited anthology comprising more than seventy poems and songs written in immediate response to Peterloo in 1819. Mainly anonymous, these ballads appears either as broadsides or in the radical press and are collected together for the first time.
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South African textual cultures
This is a study of the local and global networks which affected the publication, promotion, and reception of a series of key 'South African' writers and their works between 1883 and 2005 (Olive Schreiner, Roy Campbell, William Plomer, Alan Paton, Alex La Guma, J.M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda), and asking...
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Making home
Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors
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Shakespeare’s histories and counter-histories
Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works and their relationship to their political and cultural context. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories.
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Philip Roth
This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adv...
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The early modern English sonnet
This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both with major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Harvey, Barnes) sonneteers, and includes the first modern edition of a 1603 printed miscellany, T...
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The mediated Arctic
This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production – from literature and cinema to comics, hip hop, and cartography. It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigenous Arctic homelands have entered global media ...
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Monstrous media/spectral subjects
Explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Spenserian satire
A detailed study of Spenser's poetic legacy, focusing on his reputation as a satirist and his influence on satirical poetry written by his contemporaries.
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A literature of restitution
Investigates the crucial question of ‘restitution’ in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell.
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Chinua Achebe
A major new study of Africa’s most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebe’s work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker
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Popular reading in English c. 1400–1600
Lectures and research students in cultural history, medieval and early modern studies and literary studies
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James Baldwin Review
James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and an ...
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Cultural value in twenty-first-century England
Examines Shakespeare’s role in contemporary culture
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Thomas Nashe and literary performance
Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped by regional travel, ‘non-literary’, non-elite works, and oral culture. The essays in this collection address Nashe’s use of the past, his engagement with the Elizabethan present, ...
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The Gothic and death
An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms.
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Sex, machines and navels
Taking psychoanalysis into cyberspace, Sex, machines and navels develops an innovative theoretical perspective on the relationship between bodies and machines to offer a focused re-examination of notions of desire, metaphor, sexed identity and difference and the process of technological transform...
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The heat of Beowulf
The heat of Beowulf reexamines the aesthetics of the longest surviving Old English poem through the poetics of twentieth-century poets Jack Spicer, arguing that the aesthetics of Beowulf entangle vulnerable human corporeality in the non-human world, rendering perceptible what otherwise remains in...
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Modernism and empire
The first book to explore the relationship between literary modernism and the British Empire
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Douglas Coupland
This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland’s career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction
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