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The book provides an original investigation of the double trope as a central area of Dicken’s writings in their relation to Victorian culture, using this examination of the double to shed light on s……続きを見る

This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging sc……続きを見る

This book produces an original argument about the emergence of ‘trauma’ in the nineteenth-century through new readings of Dickens, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Collins, Gaskell and Elliot. Madeleine ……続きを見る

Jean Pauls Roman 'TITAN' ist ein Meisterwerk der deutschen Romantikliteratur. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Genies Albano, der sich auf den Weg macht, seinen Platz in der Welt zu finden……続きを見る

Reintroduces the concept of "world literature" in a truly global context, transcending past Eurocentrism. The study of world literature is on the rise. Until recently, the term "world literature" wa……続きを見る

Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century. Lacan and Romanticism uses the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to deliv……続きを見る

A study of novelty through analyses of the language of announcement in revolutionary texts. Walter Benjamin claimed that the notion of novelty took on unprecedented importance with the growth of hig……続きを見る

Intriguing, updated portraits of classic fairy tale authors. This book offers new, often unexpected, but always intriguing portraits of the writers of classic fairy tales. For years these authors, w……続きを見る

Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity. The Infrahuman explores a little-known aspect in major works of Jewish literature from……続きを見る

An unprecedented reading of Hegel's Logic that sets this difficult work in a dialogue with literary texts. Winner of the 2020 Hegelpd-Prize presented by the University of Padova Research Group In th……続きを見る

National Cultures and Foreign Narratives charts the pathways through which foreign literature in translation has arrived in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. To show the contribu……続きを見る

Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature. Romantic Vacancy argues that, at the cult of sensibility's height, Romantic writers found alternative tropes of affect to exp……続きを見る

Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of “period pieces” tha……続きを見る

This book is the first full-length study to focus on the representation of masculinity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels. In examining Gaskell’s understanding of masculine identity as a social construct……続きを見る

This book was written in Liverpool, Glasgow, and Oxford based on material used in teaching. And I kept most of the lectures, organized from my point of view. Anyone who writes about Shakespeare owes……続きを見る

This book is a collective effort to investigate and problematise notions of time and temporality in European travel writing from the late medieval period up to the late nineteenth century. It brings……続きを見る

A lo largo de esta obra nos vamos adentrando uno a uno en destinos de casi todos los rincones del mundo, que muy poco tienen que ver entre sí geográfica y demográficamente hablando pero que comparte……続きを見る

Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in early literature which challenges society’s definition of what is acceptable. T……続きを見る

100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to th……続きを見る

This book analyses colonial and postcolonial writing about Cyprus, before and after its independence from the British Empire in 1960. These works are understood as ‘transportal literatures’ in that ……続きを見る

A concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for modernists, and an introduction to modern……続きを見る

This book re-evaluates the philosophical status of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by providing an extended comparison between his work and the phenomenological theory of Edmund Husserl. Examining Coleridge……続きを見る

Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce: Joyces Noyces offers a fresh perspective on the Irish writer James Joyce’s much-noted obsession with music. This book provides an overview ……続きを見る

This book explores the influence of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov on Russian-born French language writer Irène Némirovsky. It considers the complexity of each of these relationships and the diffe……続きを見る

Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. Considering Spain’s ri……続きを見る

What did it mean to be a poet in fourteenth-century Italy? What counted as poetry? In an effort to answer these questions, this book examines the careers of four medieval Italian poets (Albertino Mu……続きを見る

Charts the vicissitudes of a distinctly modern and peculiarly human vulnerabilityーour intimate dependence on the fragile, time-bound cultural framework that we inhabitーin the history of the realis……続きを見る

Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain looks at the impact of aviation in Britain and beyond through the 1920s and 1930s. This book considers how in this period flying went from ……続きを見る

The World-Literary System and the Atlantic grapples with key questions about how American studies, and the Atlantic region in general, engages with new considerations of literary comparativism, inte……続きを見る

Several of American literature’s most prominent authors, and many of their most perceptive critics and reviewers, argue that fiction of the last quarter century has turned away from the tendencies o……続きを見る