Empire of Culture brings together contemporary representations of Victorian Britain to reveal how the nation’s imperial ......more

Women were active in landscape architecture in Scandinavia throughout the twentieth century, yet little is known about t......more

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After researching the life of a British Special Operation Executive agent, Oliver Churchill, who operated in German occu......more

This is the first book-length study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) that considers him as an historian. From his early p......more

Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Market begins from the premise that nineteenth-century life writing cir......more

This volume posits that clothing in the early modern period was conceived of as the prime interface between the human bo......more

What does it mean to read queerly? The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading upholds intersectional thinking to recognise......more

Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature argues that Victorian literature uses traces of a lingering past to the......more

In his 1909 manifesto Hind Swaraj, Gandhi made an impassioned call for passive resistance that he soon retracted. ’Passi......more

Just out of earshot, in countless nineteenth-century novels, runs the hum of daily labour by house servants, the upward ......more

The 1820s has commonly been overlooked in literary and cultural studies, seen as a barren interregnum between the achiev......more

As a novelist, feminist, socialist, activist, travel-writer, and diarist, Naomi Mitchison is one of Scotland’s most impo......more

Poking fun at Victorian social clubs became a way of asserting and redefining social belonging. At the turn of the centu......more

The intersection of modernist studies and critical animal studies is a new, progressive field that raises crucial questi......more

An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth century.This companion with a difference sets a contr......more

From his early "Curtain Raiser" to the late Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot took an interest in all the arts, drawing on them......more

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts is the most authoritative and up-to-date guide to Virginia Woolf’......more

First published in 1986, Laurence Sterne follows Sterne’s life and career from the moment of recognition brought by the ......more

First published in 1975, Laurence Sterne is biography of Sterne’s life which emphasizes those experiences which informed......more

First published in 1968, Jane Austen’s Emma is a critical study of Miss Austen’s last completed novel. While often pausi......more

In this book, Michael Gardiner suggests that the conception of the ’war-ending’ weapon was tied up with a longer commitm......more

Naturalism’s Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century examines one of the most revered art hist......more

It combines the investigation of David Mitchell’s novels with the introduction of a new critical concept to literary stu......more

The nineteenth-century was a time of accelerated change and stark contradictions. It was marked by stability, advancemen......more

Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: The Alternative Dystopian Imagination aims to offer innovative perspectives fo......more

This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventee......more

In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively ......more

Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from......more

Official Voices: Poets and the Irish State examines the poet-politicians and bureaucrats who shaped the twenty-six-count......more

This book looks at texts produced before and after 9/11 by novelists with Muslim backgrounds in Britain. It delves into ......more

This book by examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in History of the Conquest of M......more

Delving into the landscapes and politics of 20th and 21st century Yorkshire, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry as......more

Keats and Scepticism explores Keats’s affinity with the philosophical tradition of scepticism and reads Keats’s poetry a......more

It is a collection of 10 essays on the transcultural encounter between Bengal and Italy from the late 19 & 20th century.......more

The evolving adventures and myth of Don Quixote from farcical social criticism to Romantic idealism and then melancholy.......more

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John Ford’s tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely ......more

How might literary scholarship engage with the sustainability debate? Aimed at research scholars and advanced students i......more

Despite the large number of publications on Joseph Conrad’s Polishness--including previous volumes of the series Conrad:......more

In the early 1820s, the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle achieved a level of ......more

In this wide-ranging introduction, Julia Kristeva presents the evolution and emergence of linguistics. For Kristeva, the......more

During the interwar years in France, modernist literature challenged norms around sex and sexuality through daring portr......more

During the interwar years in France, modernist literature challenged norms around sex and sexuality through daring portr......more

Revisiting Russian Radicals is a collection of ten articles that seeks to promote a revisitation of the Russian Radicals......more

Can feelings be wrong? Scientists agree that emotions contain both a cognitive and a physiological component. The cognit......more

Jane Austen’s heroines respond to the power of the natural world, seeking comfort in nature’s calm or referencing "verdu......more

Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British Literature offers a critical analysis of moral complexity and socia......more

"Uses a close reading of the work of Miguel de Cervantes to critically examine the default approaches to the exploration......more

A groundbreaking new account of the author of The Spanish Tragedy that establishes him as a major Elizabethan dramatist ......more

The Brecht Yearbook, published by Camden House on behalf of the International Brecht Society, is the central scholarly f......more

Virginia Woolf’s reading notes offer a fascinating insight into her mind at work, reading "with a pen and notebook, seri......more

"Romantik. Journal for the Study of Romanticisms" is a multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of romantic-era ......more

Examining Afro-German artists’ use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was fi......more

Examining Afro-German artists’ use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was fi......more

In our modern era of hyperconnectivity, the intricacies of our interpersonal relationships wield a profound influence on......more

At a time when scholars in both literary and scientific disciplines are advancing the term posthumanism, this book offer......more

The Brontës and the Fairy Tale is the first comprehensive study devoted to the role of fairy tales and folklore in the w......more

Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through p......more

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The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God Written during his exi......more

Graham Greene is an immensely popular as well as powerful and idiosyncratic writer. His leading characters are murderers......more

An essential resource for anyone interested in crusade culture and Christian-Muslim relations, building on insights from......more

The Possibility of Literature is an essential collection from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in contemp......more

The Aesthetic Movement, a collection of artists, writers and thinkers who rejected traditional ideas of beauty as guided......more

The Mediterranean is ubiquitous in nineteenth-century British literature, but this study is the first to fully recover a......more

Music plays an essential role in Gothic in the years 1789-1820, but it signifies very differently at the end of the peri......more

This study of forensic crime fiction from the US and the UK examines the prominent roles that women play in many of thes......more

This study of forensic crime fiction from the US and the UK examines the prominent roles that women play in many of thes......more

Der vorliegende Band prasentiert die Ergebnisse des Workshops "Petrarchism: Competing Models for Early Modern Community ......more

This book accounts for the outpouring of celebrations in the Habsburg Empire upon the 1657 birth of Felipe Próspero, hei......more

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This Element focuses on representations of social and psychological entrapment demonstrating how Dickens employs the Got......more