Literary studies: from c 1900 - books

A pioneering work that anticipated the contemporary phenomenon of mindfulness, A Life of One’s Own is a great adventure...  Read More >>

Defends conventional and even problematic illness metaphors by emphasizing their varied usability.  Read More >>

Rethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James...  Read More >>

Argues for a reawakened commitment to historicity in contemporary American fiction.  Read More >>

The first comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literary biography.  Read More >>

Provides the most comprehensive portrayal of Virginia Woolf's education to date.  Read More >>

Provides a transnational study of the Arab uprisings in the Western literary market  Read More >>

The first detailed analysis of Gothic literature and trauma in World War One.  Read More >>

Presents the first extended account of asbestos in literature, film and visual culture.  Read More >>

Focuses onthe California Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  Read More >>

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility,...  Read More >>

Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s...  Read More >>

A pioneering work that anticipated the contemporary phenomenon of mindfulness, A Life of One’s Own is a great adventure...  Read More >>

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Comparing Lawrence’s texts to various major and minor contemporary novels, journal articles, political pamphlets...  Read More >>

Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers’ wide-ranging contributions...  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century  Read More >>

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

This volume maps the phenomenon of medievalism in Aotearoa, initially as an import by the early white settler society,...  Read More >>

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Saul Bellow: ""I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer"" offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and...  Read More >>

A modern understanding of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver’s fiction.  Read More >>

This book offers a discussion of seven “canonical” novels by Ian McEwan (The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers,...  Read More >>

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