Literary studies: from c 1900 - books

This book provides a critical discussion of True Crime literature, arguing for the deconstruction of the genre into...  Read More >>

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

In travel books, Mary Kingsley described her experiences with immense detachment and humour. These lengthy works...  Read More >>

The To-day and To-morrow book series (1923-31) was a publishing phenomenon – over 100 short books choosing a particular...  Read More >>

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This engaging volume provides an authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of the widely-read,...  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

Considershow Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away...  Read More >>

A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the...  Read More >>

Essays that explore how the digital traces of counter-memories—the stories that society has historically and presently...  Read More >>

Der Band wirft zum einen einen neuen Blick auf Geschichte und Spielarten des äußerst heterogenen Protestpop vom...  Read More >>

These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's essays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss...  Read More >>

These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's fiction introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The...  Read More >>

The first book to offer a detailed yet broad overview of the poetic engagement with Greece across the modernist...  Read More >>

This Very Short Introduction provides an accessible and authoritative guide to Tolkien's works, and it places The...  Read More >>

The first critical analysis of prolific and award-winning British author Ronald Harwood (1934–2020). Though he received...  Read More >>

Bringing together trans theory with French literary studies, Mat Fournier offers a new understanding of how the...  Read More >>

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Der Sammelband arbeitet mehr als zehn Jahre nach dem Tod der Dichterin die fortwährende Brisanz und Aktualität ihres...  Read More >>

As many as half a million Russians lived in Germany in the 1920s, most of them in Berlin, clustered around the Charlottenburg...  Read More >>

An in-depth study of Irish theatre in the contemporary period, including major companies and playwrights, that draws...  Read More >>