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De Bruyn, B. (2020)
The contemporary novel is not as silent as we tend to believe, nor does it only attend to human plots and characters. As this book shows, writers in a range of subgenres have …
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Mussi, F. (2020)
Since the 1970s, truth and reconciliation commissions have become increasingly popularised as options for addressing historical injustices, especially within the context of …
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Vaninskaya, A. (2020)
This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy—Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien—to our culture’s perennial …
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Gruner, E. R. (2019)
This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adult novels depict readers as …
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Pyke, S. M. (2019)
Animal Visions considers how literature responds to the harms of anthropocentricism, working with Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and various adaptations of this …
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Rose, A., Heine, S., Tsentourou, N., Saunders, C., Garratt, P. (2019)
This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. …
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Lambrou, M. (2019)
In this book Marina Lambrou explores the dimension of narrative storytelling described as ‘the disnarrated’ – events that do not happen but which are referred to – across three …
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DiPlacidi, J. (Ed), Leydecker, K. (Ed) (2018)
This book examines the intersections between the ways that marriage was represented in eighteenth-century writing and art, experienced in society, and regulated by law. The …
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Do Rozario, R. C. (2018)
This book is a journey through the fairy-tale wardrobe, explaining how the mercurial nature of fashion has shaped and transformed the Western fairy-tale tradition. Many of fairy …
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Shapira, Y. (2018)
Inventing the Gothic Corpse shows how a series of bold experiments in eighteenth-century British realist and Gothic fiction transform the dead body from an instructive icon into a …
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Gheorghiu, O. (2018)
This book argues that twenty-first-century neorealist fiction is inspired by political and journalistic discourses and, along with them, constitutes one of the many …
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Axelrod-Sokolov, M. (2018)
This book examines one work dealing with madness from each of five prominent authors. Including discussion of Fowles, Hamsun, Hesse, Kafka, and Poe, it delineates the specific …
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Close, G. S. (2018)
This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational …
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Gavin, A. E. (Ed), de la L. Oulton, C. W. (Ed) (2018)
This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. …
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Newton, K. M. (2018)
George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century reexamines Eliot two hundred years after her birth and offers an innovative critical reading that seeks to change perceptions of …
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Sykes, Jr., J. D. (2018)
God and Self in the Confessional Novel explores the question: what happened to the theological practice of confession when it entered the modern novel? Beginning with the premise …
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Joyce, L. (Ed), Sutton, H. (Ed) (2018)
This book represents the first serious consideration of the 'domestic noir' phenomenon and, by extension, the psychological thriller. The only such landmark collection since Lee …
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Darlington, J. (2018)
This book discusses British novels published during the 1970s which feature terrorists either as main characters or a major plot points. The focus on terrorism’s literary …
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Morrissey, J. (2018)
This book examines women’s domestic occupations in the Romantic-period novel at the most intimately human level. By examining the momentary thought and feeling processes that …
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Beyer, C. (Ed) (2018)
More than perhaps any other genre, crime fiction invites debate over the role of popular fiction in English studies. This book offers lively original essays on teaching crime …
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