The Verse of Charles Dickens reveals Charles Dickens’s complex, tortured relationship from 1830 to 1870 with the form an......more
This book situates Walter Scott’s novels on monarchy within both their historical contexts and biopolitical theory, part......more
This book takes seriously the late-Victorian periodical essay, treating it with the same formal care that another study ......more
Genetic criticism is the study of authors’ drafts and manuscripts, looking at all that is tried or discarded in the cour......more
David Copperfield was Dickens’s most personal novel, a first-person narrative that reworked details of both the author’s......more
David Copperfield was Dickens’s most personal novel, a first-person narrative that reworked details of both the author’s......more
This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British metropolitan lecture circuit and in m......more
This book unravels the complexities of traditional storytelling and uses creative analytical techniques to uncover the m......more
Official Voices: Poets and the Irish State examines the poet-politicians and bureaucrats who shaped the twenty-six-count......more
This original new study explores the recent flowering of short fiction in Ireland, analysing the production, disseminati......more
This is the first critical study of the work of John Wyndham, a formative figure in postwar British science fiction. It ......more
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For more than four decades, Michael Hofmann has made significant contributions to the literary cultures of Germany, the ......more
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"Silent Catastrophes brings together the two books W.G. Sebald wrote on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him: T......more
Remembering the Jewish and German Questions: Essays on Fairy Tales, Poetry, and Culture is a selection of Jack Zipes’s i......more
Remembering the Jewish and German Questions: Essays on Fairy Tales, Poetry, and Culture is a selection of Jack Zipes’s i......more
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children’s Literature showcases the work of prominent scholars of children’s literature from Ukra......more
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Presents Stifter’s multi-faceted oeuvre to both a German Studies and non-specialized Anglophone audience, showing today’......more
Relocation narratives form a distinct subgenre of contemporary travel memoirs concerned with the experiences of travelle......more
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This book explores the contexts and reception history of Robert Pollok’s religious epic The Course of Time (1827), one o......more
The first English translation of the essays, lectures, and other critical writings of the celebrated Austrian poet, nove......more
A comprehensive presentation and examination of a popular seventeenth-century genre: the English broadside ballad In its......more
Reading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wilde’s writings......more
Reading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wilde’s writings......more
Posits a New German Jewish Literature that has surprising implications for today’s German Jewish - and Jewish - identity......more
Posits a New German Jewish Literature that has surprising implications for today’s German Jewish - and Jewish - identity......more
A wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature. Medieval literature......more
A wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature. Medieval literature......more
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing evidences the evolution of travel writing studies over the l......more
Austrian Studies 32 is dedicated to the writings and legacy of Ingeborg Bachmann, one of the most important twentieth-ce......more
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Shakespeare’s Theater of Nature argues that Shakespeare combined art and nature in new ways while experimenting with rel......more
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Polish Camp Literature expands the boundaries of Polish camp literature, which has so far been defined too narrowly. Thi......more
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"In 1729, a remarkable book appeared in London. The author, Robert Drury, took up residence at Old Tom’s coffeehouse in ......more
Imagination Besieged records the silenced stories of a Mediterranean defined by loss, displacement, dispossession, viole......more
Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through p......more
Using a broad range of archival material from Washington University, St. Louis, the University of Glasgow, and the Briti......more
The Dreyfus Affair’s Literary Politics offers a new interpretation of writers’ political engagements in the crisis that ......more
Spectrality disrupts and fissures our conceptions of time, unmaking and complicating binaries such as life and death, pr......more
Care is fundamental to human survival, yet it is often overlooked, undermined, undervalued, and thought of as ’women’s w......more
Can the academic humanities serve the general public to address some of today’s most critical challenges? This unusual v......more
This book offers a contribution to contemporary discussions in the field of Latin American critical theory and literary ......more
In this new book, Walker Zupp demonstrates the need to reevaluate the connection between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosoph......more
People in medieval England talked, and yet we seldom talk or write about their talk. People conversed not within literar......more
While narrative fracturing, multiplicity, and experimentalism are commonly associated with modernist and postmodern text......more
What is wrong with ’literary modernism’ as a paradigm? One answer is that it is over-written, a kind of ’winner’s histor......more
The sea for Shakespeare is both a location and a metaphor; and either way it affords him an extraordinary freedom of inv......more
While the baroque remains a foundational concept for other European literary and aesthetic traditions, scholars have lar......more
All authors try to do something new, or tell an old story in a new way; but for Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who ......more
Abstraction is one of the most important words in modernism and in the critical thought of modernity, yet its complex wo......more
We share with Shakespeare, it seems, the assumption that to be human is to be an interpreter of oneself, others and the ......more
Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry explores the question of poetry’s relation to time and argues that this relati......more
New scholarly essays on the short story in English as a phenomenon of world literature This collection explores the hist......more
New perspectives on women’s contributions to periodical culture in the era of modernism This collection highlights the c......more
Provides new perspectives on women’s print media in interwar Britain This collection of new essays recovers and explores......more
Explores the many ways in which Anthony Trollope is being read in the twenty-first century Since the turn of the century......more
Contemporary literature gathers in a commemorative site the remains of H/history and its own story by erecting literary ......more
These proceedings celebrate the breadth, knowledge, and passion of the Tolkien scholars who attended Tolkien 2019. It in......more
This book makes a big narrative leap in time, media and imagination. Starting from an iconic film on the Italian-America......more
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"Many beloved classics of children’s literature, including Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Tale of ......more
This introduction to British literature from 1900 to 2021 looks at British writing from the perspective of the 2016 Brex......more