Focusing on the moral tale as foremost among the new genres of literature that emerged during the late 18th century, Fleming examines both the narrative conventions of moral tales themselves and the w
"Interrogating the multiple ways in which travel was narrated and mediated, by and in response to, nineteenth-century British travelers, this interdisciplinary collection examines to what extent these
Christoph Senft provides a set of re-readings of contemporary Indian narrative texts as decolonial and pluralistic approaches to the past and thus offers a comprehensive overview of the subcontinent’s
Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Molly Youngkin shows how British women writers' encounters with textual and visual representations of ancient Egyptian women such as Hath
Ethical realism can coincide with aesthetic realism, but need not, suggests Lansdown, and whereas English literature in both the 18th century and the 19th demonstrate the presence of aesthetic realism
Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing fortunes of a unique cultural phenomenon. This book examines the afterlives of the Byron
Oliver Ross explores representations of same-sex desire in Indian literature and film from the 1970s to the present. Through a detailed analysis of fiction and poetry by authors like Vikram Seth, Kama
Long before Citizens United and modern debates over corporations as people, such organizations already stood between the public and private as both vehicles for commerce and imaginative constructs bas
In Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print, Joshua King demonstrates how nineteenth-century Britons turned to the printed page to imagine themselves in Christian communities spa
Though recent scholarship has focused both on motherhood and on romance literature in early modern England, until now, no full length volume has addressed the notable intersections between the two top
For Decadent authors, Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism, perversion, transition, and partial negation. But for all these strong Decadent reactions against the period, the cu
This New Casebook brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval literature by leading academics. The volume examines major authors such as Chaucer, L
This New Casebook brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval literature by leading academics. The volume examines major authors such as Chaucer, L
Essential Scots scrutinizes diverse texts from the Union of Crowns and James VI/I’s Edinburgh-London emigration to the aftermath of George IV’s London-Edinburgh-London journey more than two centuries
Romantic Sustainability is an international collection of ecocritical essays that examine sustainability in relation to Romantic-era Britain. The essays examine the traditional Romantic canon but also
This book provides an informative, critical and concise introduction to the literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, contextualising the literature and introducing the pre-eminent authors
This book provides an informative, critical and concise introduction to the literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, contextualising the literature and introducing the pre-eminent authors
Wheelock digs beneath the elite, white antislavery version of progress, to look at key debates on progress and freedom during the so-called Age of Revolution from a different, yet meaningful angle. Re
In an interdisciplinary study of black intellectual history at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan M. Wheelock shows how black antislavery writers were able to counteract ideologies of white su
A disorder that is only just beginning to find a place in disability studies and activism, autism remains in large part a mystery, giving rise to both fear and fascination. Sonya Loftis’s groundbreaki
