Literary theory books

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Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century revisits eighteenth-century culture through the lens...  Read More >>

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First published in 1990. Balzac, Zola and Faulkner all drew upon the principles of evolutionary theory to represent...  Read More >>

First published in 1990, this book was the first comprehensive study of Balzac’s relationship to music, blending...  Read More >>

First published in 1987. While there have been commentaries on his humour, his seriousness, his social concerns,...  Read More >>

First published in 1977, this book studies three important nineteenth-century novelists: Mrs Gaskell, William Hale...  Read More >>

Mr Mayhead examines Scott's contemplation of the detribalization of Scotland after the Jacobite rebellions, and...  Read More >>

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First published in 1987, this book engages directly with a selection of major texts from the traditional English...  Read More >>

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First published in 1968, this book sets out to refute the idea of Trollope as a ‘mild cathedral-town novelist, describing...  Read More >>

In this new work, renowned feminist filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a lyrical, philosophical...  Read More >>

First published in 1985, this book looks at the ways in which the spate of terrorist activity in the 1880s was reflected...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, this book surveys Dickens’ growing power to drive deep into the causes of his contemporary...  Read More >>

""A story that follows a simple trajectory is seldom worth telling. But the unexpected overturning of narrative...  Read More >>

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This transnational study focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery and engage...  Read More >>

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