Deanna Smid presents a literary, historical account of imagination in early modern English literature, particularly imagination’s effects on the body and on women, its restraint by reason, and its abi
Ulrike Pesold examines the portrayal of class, gender, race and ethnicity in selected school stories by Thomas Hughes, Rudyard Kipling, Enid Blyton and J.K. Rowling. She shows how the treatment of the
In Tom Stoppard’s Plays: Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony Nigel Purse offers a unique appraisal, on a thematic basis, of all Stoppard’s plays by identifying key patterns and uncovering at the heart
Ethics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction explores the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s fiction. Palladino’s work foregrounds ambiguity as a key feature of narrativ
Can Jane Austen only be fully understood in English? In Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian, Sørbø compares novels and their translations, while also discussing the strategies chosen by translators of litera
In Literature and Truth Richard Lansdown examines the relation of literature to truth by tracing the presence of discursive ideas and paradigms in imaginative works.
This volume explores the intersections between narrative disruption and continuity in post-9/11 narratives from an interdisciplinary transnational perspective, foregrounding the transatlantic cultural
By considering D.H. Lawrence’s stories through the lens of critically neglected short films, this book provides a fresh, forward-looking approach to Lawrence studies which engages with current adaptat
Drawing on the ideas of P. N. Furbank and Michel Foucault, this work examines patterns and structures of autobiographical writing. Chapter-length studies consider Reveries over Childhood and Youth by
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
During the decade leading up to 9/11, an understanding of cultural trauma had formed in the US that singled out literary fiction as the main source for working through mass-scale catastrophes that hav
This volume analyzes the work of five American migrant writers and one photographer of the late 20th and 21st centuries--Aleksandar Hemon, G.B. Tran, Junot Díaz, Boris Fishman, Velibor Bozovic, and
Racz explores the poetics of Larkin, a mainstream British poet of the 1950s and 1960s, showing how --despite the myth of the simple and anti-intellectual poetry that he created of himself--his poetry
Johansen investigates why the fantastic and the grotesque have been so central to American literature--as opposed to the European dabbling in them--since the country began. Foregrounding the transgres
The book proposes a new understanding of eighteenth-century Quixotism in English thought and literary production. The world displayed by eighteenth-century English Quixotes reveals a strain of lament
Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville offers detailed and original readings of the work of the Irish author John Banville, one of the foremost figures in contemporary Europ
Addressed to all readers of Our Nig, from professional scholars of African American writing through to a more general readership, this book explores bothOur Nig’s key cultural contexts and its histori
