Literary studies: from c 1900 - books

Often examined separately, play and hauntings in fact act together to frame postcolonial issues. Sushmita Chatterjee...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1982, this study examines Orton’s principal plays, but its main concern is to identify his...  Read More >>

This book, originally published in 1983, begins with an analysis of the patterns of Graham Greene’s mind. It explores...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1985, this study provides a clear and intelligent introduction to the work of the former...  Read More >>

In this book, originally published in 1982, Blake Morrison identifies the central characteristics of his achievement,...  Read More >>

In this important study, originally published in 1985, Ronald Hayman scrutinizes Grass’s development and assesses...  Read More >>

American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind (1931) is a remarkable work that traces not only the history...  Read More >>

First Published in 1985, the aim of this book is to define an aspect of Orwell’s literary identity which underlies...  Read More >>

The Hero (1925) explains tragedy itself, through a close examination of multiple texts, with a particular focus...  Read More >>

Beginning with the first concisely concerted assessment in English of the premisses and practice of Realism as viewed...  Read More >>

It investigates the gender representations that French children's literature transmits to children. Using an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

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This book offers a critical overview of the effects of space, physical and conceptual, in the works of Irish American...  Read More >>

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The book looks at the different ways the temporal features in the existential exigencies of the human located within...  Read More >>

Essays on and interviews with minoritized writers of contemporary Germany, mostly women or non-binary, whose literary...  Read More >>

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Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the fims of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth...  Read More >>

Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, Lucy Evans explores how...  Read More >>

The book proposes a critical historical reconstruction of early Soviet adventure-craze and its lasting popularity...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis provides insight into a complex phenomenon. The collection examines...  Read More >>

Water Stories in the Anthropocene explores how climate change has emerged as a major theme in our daily lives as...  Read More >>

This book sets out to elucidate Conrad’s unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of...  Read More >>

This book explores the meanings of European peripheries in postcolonial literary imagination. Acknowledging the...  Read More >>

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows...  Read More >>