Three sixteenth-century dietaries

Three sixteenth century dietaries makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern culture. It provides the first modern edition of three of the most important dietaries of the time - with the texts offering advice on the best ways to maintain well-being.

The Renaissance text

This collection of essays focuses attention on the broad issue of Renaissance textuality. It explores such topics as the position of the reader relative to the text; the impact of editorial strategies and modes of presentation on our understanding of the text; and the relevance of gender to the p...

Pageantry and Power

Pageantry and Power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayor’s Show in the early modern period. The book provides new insight into the culture and history of the London of Shakespeare’s time and beyond.

Romancero Gitano

Federico Garcia Lorca is one of the outstanding poets of Spanish literature. Apart from his trilogy of stage tragedies, ‘Romancero gitano’ (Gypsy ballads) is his most celebrated work: innovative, sophisticated, difficult and uniquely popular.

Early modern women and the poem

Examine factors influencing the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in seventeenth-century England and Scotland

1913: The year of French modernism

This book takes its cue from the annus miabilis for French culture to outline French modernism and to situate it on the map of global modernism. Essays on specific works in various media present the first narrative of French modernism as a critical category and establish its position in the thriv...

French crime fiction and the Second World War

By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoing debates over the legacies of the war y...

Shakespeare's book

This collection of essays offers a vital contribution to this critical debate, and examines its wider implications for how we conceive of Shakespeare and his works.

Irish Literature Since 1990

This wide-ranging collection surveys the diversity and energy of Irish literature over the last two decades, a period marked by major cultural, social and political transformations. It examines the work of both well-established writers and emerging literary talents, and also considers creative w...

Imagining the Irish child

Examines changing ideas about childhood and Ireland in Irish Anglican writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in a wide variety of genres, including novels, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational treatises, histories, catechisms and children’s bibles.

Howard Jacobson

This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson’s novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction.

Thomas of Woodstock

This anonymous manuscript play has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare’s Richard II. This edition, which thoroughly re-examines the text, situates the play within its historical and political context, relating it to the genre of chronicle drama t...

Tuning in to the neo-avant-garde

This collection offers the first in-depth study of the radio medium’s significance as a site of artistic experimentation for the literary neo-avant-garde in the postwar era. It addresses institutional and contextual aspects of audio drama, as well as intermedial and material issues alongside ideo...

Conrad's Marlow

Conrad’s Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad’s most celebrated creations, asking both who and what is Marlow: a character or a narrator, a biographer or an autobiographical screen, a messenger or an interpreter, a bearer of truth or a misguided liar?

The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late fifteenth through the e...

Tristana

This volume provides an annotated critical edition of Galdós' Tristana (1892). Set in fin de siècle Madrid, this unique text reflects upon the ruling elites' political appropriation and exploitation of feminism and the human rights movement, and a variety of literary and philosophical issues asso...

Salman Rushdie

In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie’s fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of this major contempora...

Pulp

Pulp brings together in one volume chapters on the best seller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror. It combines a lucid and accessible account of the cultural theories that have informed the study of popular fiction with detailed readings of Jackie Collins, Jilly Coope...

Literary visions of multicultural Ireland

The first full-length monograph to address the impact that Celtic-Tiger immigration has exerted on the poetry, drama and fiction of contemporary Irish writers

Further letters of Mrs Gaskell

Contains number of previously unpublished letters which were not included in the hardback edition. Completes the project of publishing the correspondence of one of the greatest nineteeth-century novelists – J. A. V. Chapple edited not only the letters of Elizabeth Gaskell (1966), but also publish...

Auto/biographical discourses

In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book makes complex debates accessible to a wide readership.

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and modern Irish literature. Characterising the relationship as ‘dismemorial’, the book explores how ghosts, bodies, and the land are sites of literary connection through which cont...

Difficult pasts

Difficult Pastscombines book history, reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era audiences used medieval literary texts to construct their own national and religious identities. In doing so, it challenges narratives that separate manuscript and print, Catholi...

Elegy for Literature

Elegy for Literature is an overview of the current crisis within the academic study of literature. It suggests a way forward for rethinking the work that literary studies can do – less as a set of literary objects, and more as a way of life.

A Cultural History of The Punisher

A close reading of one of the most murderous characters in popular culture. First introduced in 1974, the Punisher has inspired three movies, a Netflix series, and more than one thousand comics and graphic novels. His stories have celebrated, interrogated, and satirized the politics of vengeance....

Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies

‘Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them?’ takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies, philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein as well as the implications of certain pop...

Notions of Otherness

‘Notions of Otherness’ is a collection of literary essays that approaches the idea of alterity politically, aesthetically, ethically, culturally and sexually in a diachronic manner.

Neo-Gothic Narratives

‘Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times.

Vyāsa Redux

Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and 'Vyāsa Redux' examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. Narrative is, in this view, cognitive rather than empiri...

The Early Roxburghe Club 1812–1835

The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. This work offers a new narrative of the formative years of the Club and early nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and its relationship to the emergent popularity and status of English vernacul...

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.

Australia as the Antipodal Utopia

Australia has a fascinating history of visions. As the antipode to Europe, Australia provided a radically different and uniquely fertile ground for envisioning places, spaces and societies. ‘The Antipodal Utopia’ evaluates this complex intellectual history by mapping out how Western visions of Au...

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...

Betwixt and Between

‘Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft’ identifies the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities and gaps that have run rampant in biographies on Wollstonecraft, many of them incomprehensively left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. It also analyzes ...

Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s

Focusing on an author characterised by geographical and aesthetic mobility, and on those who worked with him or wrote for him, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s’ investigates the operations of transatlantic literary networks during a period of ke...

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...

Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination

Australia is the planet’s sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how shifting understandings of the island continent shed new light on the relationship between islands and...

Before Einstein

Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. ‘Before Einstein’ offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativit...

Sisters and the English Household

‘Sisters and the English Household’ revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labour in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the disc...

The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard

‘The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard’ offers a detailed and previously undocumented account of how the writer’s emotional experiences, primarily in the sexual arena, consistently informed and enriched his fiction.

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...

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, ...

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.

Stephen Wall, Trollope and Character and Other Essays on Victorian Literature

‘Stephen Wall, “Trollope and Character” (1988) and Other Essays on Victorian Literature’ is a collection of critical essays by the eminent literary critic Stephen Wall, including his exceptional writings on Anthony Trollope, as well as brilliant studies of Charles Dickens and other major Victoria...

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...

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.

Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia

'Walkabout' was one of the most popular magazines in mid-twentieth century Australia, educating local and international readers about the Australian landscape, its peoples and industry. It featured many of the most interesting writers, natural scientists and commentators. This book investigates '...

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.

Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin

“Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin” is a concise study focusing on four poets who because of their distinctive profiles illustrate especially well the opportunities and pitfalls of writing science poetry during the long eighteenth century.

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.

Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction

Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment shows how works of twentieth-century literature and philosophy together examine language’s capacity to acknowledge the inner lives of marginalized figures.

The Significant Hamlin Garland

This book collects the best of Donald Pizer’s essays dealing with Hamlin Garland’s early work and activities in to re-establish the importance of this formative stage in his career.

The Propaganda of Peace

When political opponents Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new Northern Ireland executive in May 2007, a chapter was closed on Northern Ireland’s troubled past. A dramatic realignment of politics had brought these irreconcilable enemi...

Hypertext

Shakespeare Valued

Taking a comprehensive critical and theoretical approach to the role of Shakespeare in educational policy and pedagogy from 1989 to the present, Shakespeare Valued explores the esteem afforded Shakespeare in the British educational system and its evolution throughout the twentieth and twenty-firs...

Dialogues 2

The articles were given as papers at an International Postgraduate conference on Endings held jointly by Exeter and Bristol Universities in July 1998. They reflect a wide area of specialisms whilst being linked by the common theme of endings which lead to fruitful exchanges of ideas. Areas cover...