After researching the life of a British Special Operation Executive agent, Oliver Churchill, who operated in German occu......more
First published in 1968, Critical Essays on Jane Austen shines critical and scholarly attention on one of the most widel......more
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 is the first critical study of the work of John Wyndham, a formative figure in postwar British science fiction. It ......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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Besides nourishing us, food can be used metaphorically to help us understand the complex and abstract concepts through w......more
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This original new study explores the recent flowering of short fiction in Ireland, analysing the production, disseminati......more
For more than four decades, Michael Hofmann has made significant contributions to the literary cultures of Germany, the ......more
Julia Kristeva presents a thoroughly original and compelling reading of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, first deliv......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
This book explores representations of traditional medicine and healing practices in Irish Revival-era literature spannin......more
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The twelfth and early thirteenth centuries saw some of the most important changes to marriage laws in European history, ......more
The Physiologus is the ancestor of the bestiary, a collection of chapters describing animal qualities and behaviours, us......more
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Cornwall has a special literary heritage. Its writers and poets seem to come from its rich, deep and ancient rock format......more
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 relationship between Anne Brontë’s work and the life and writings of Lord Byron. Byron’s influenc......more
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
Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis explores how French and Algerian dramatists have engaged with two traumatic events th......more
Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis explores how French and Algerian dramatists have engaged with two traumatic events th......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
Literatures of small nations represent a minuscule portion of the global literary marketplace, where books written in En......more
Part detective story, part fable, this novel--narrated by a French journalist--takes the reader to a mythical postindust......more
Julia Kristeva’s dazzling fictional debut is an intellectual adventure, full of vitality, sensuousness, and sustained ly......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
"This volume helps teachers with ways to teach Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and questions of ethnicity, identity, race, ......more
"This volume helps teachers with ways to teach Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and questions of ethnicity, identity, race, ......more
This book offers a contribution to contemporary discussions in the field of Latin American critical theory and literary ......more
Can the academic humanities serve the general public to address some of today’s most critical challenges? This unusual v......more