![Masculine Domination in Henry James's Novels]( "Masculine Domination in Henry James's Novels")
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Schniedermann, W. (2020)
This book proposes a new interdisciplinary approach to the gendered power relations in James’s novels. Reading James’s narrative form through the lens of relational sociology, …
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![Fantasies of Time and Death]( "Fantasies of Time and Death")
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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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![God and Self in the Confessional Novel]( "God and Self in the Confessional Novel")
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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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![Teaching Crime Fiction]( "Teaching Crime Fiction")
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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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![The Varieties of Authorial Intention]( "The Varieties of Authorial Intention")
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Farrell, J. (2017)
This book explores the logic and historical origins of a strange taboo that has haunted literary critics since the 1940s, keeping them from referring to the intentions of authors …
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![Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel]( "Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel")
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McCluskey, A. (2015)
In this work, Alan McCluskey explores materialism, in its many conceptual forms, in the contemporary cosmopolitan novel. The author applies a 'cosmopolitan materialist' lens to …
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![The Fairytale and Plot Structure]( "The Fairytale and Plot Structure")
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Murphy, T. P. (2015)
This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype, the functional structure behind the plots of classical fairy tales. By understanding how plot genotypes are used, the …
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![Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination]( "Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination")
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Patell, C. (2015)
Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan …
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![Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915]( "Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915")
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Clayton, O. (2015)
Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 examines how British and American writers used early photography and film as illustrations and metaphors. It concentrates on …
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![Women Writers and the Hero of Romance]( "Women Writers and the Hero of Romance")
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Wilt, J. (2014)
Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester, in romance fiction from Wuthering Heights to Fifty Shades …
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![Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock]( "Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock")
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Clarke, C. (2014)
This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful …
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![William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England]( "William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England")
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Grande, J. (2014)
William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to …
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![James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism]( "James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism")
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Lanigan, L. (2014)
Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. …
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![The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction]( "The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction")
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König, E. (2014)
The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from …
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![Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture]( "Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture")
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Talairach-Vielmas, L. (2014)
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular …
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![Silence and Subject in Modern Literature]( "Silence and Subject in Modern Literature")
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Olsson, U. (2013)
Why does interrogation silence its object and not make it speak? Silence vs speech is a central issue in classical and modern literary works. This book studies literary …
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![John Banville's Narcissistic Fictions]( "John Banville's Narcissistic Fictions")
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O'Connell, M. (2013)
In reading Banville's novels through the work of key psychoanalytical theorists, John Banville's Narcissistic Fictions brings together apparently disparate thematic strands - …
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![Social Reform in Gothic Writing]( "Social Reform in Gothic Writing")
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Ledoux, E. M. (2013)
Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through …
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![Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body]( "Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body")
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Anderson, S. (2012)
In Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body, Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and H.D. represent trauma, specifically addressing …
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![Fictions of Knowledge]( "Fictions of Knowledge")
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Batsaki, Y. (Ed), Mukherji, S. (Ed), Schramm, J. (Ed) (2012)
Locating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book …
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