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W. H. Davies
This book brings together, for the first time, a collection of articles from leading scholars on the writing, and literary and social contexts, of the ‘tramp-poet’ and memoirist W. H. Davies (1871–1940).
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The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley
‘The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley’ explores the poetic heroism developed in Byron and Shelley’s poetry and drama. The book traces how the heroism of the poet, as an idea, an ideal and an illusion, undergoes many different incarnations and definitions as both poets shape distinctive ...
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Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–90
‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790’ explores the role of poetry in eighteenth-century thinking on human progress. Its central contention is that the textural, verbal characteristics of poetry were a crucial form of response to ideas of human development. That is, the aesthetics of verse ...
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Nordic Terrors
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a setting for Gothic terror. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition as it provided a vocabulary for Gothic texts, examining the cultural significance these references held for writers ...
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Sisters and the English Household
‘Sisters and the English Household’ revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labour in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the disc...
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Joycean Possibilities: A Margot Norris Legacy
Inspired by the work of Margot Norris, this volume takes up her theme of how James Joyce’s works open up a host of new possibilities: for interpretation, for stylistic “iridescence,” for narrative, for other possible worlds, and for gender equality.
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The Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington
This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) and offers the first detailed analysis of her four travel books.
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Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve
Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve is a study of the political and social milieu that informs William Congreve’s writings. The book attempts to read Congreve’s plays and his novella, Incognita, against the political and social upheaval of the period initiated...
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The Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw
Along with a biographical and critical introduction, ‘The Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw’ brings together Hawkshaw’s four volumes of poetry and republishes them together for the first time. An appendix of reviews and contemporary criticism of Hawkshaw’s work is included, along with details of th...
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Revolution, Empire, and the Gothic Dream
This monograph examines the centrality of dreams and their significant transformations in British Gothic novels and in Caribbean novels. The Gothic counters the Enlightenment’s internalization of dreams by reimagining dreams as social and political phenomena. They subsequently play vital roles in...
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Bare Ruined Choirs
The book discusses the demarcation of secular and sacred territory in early modern English drama. It focuses primarily on four plays, Thorney Abbey, A Knack to Know a Knave, A Shoemaker a Gentleman and The Lovesick King, but puts these in dialogue with Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and Doctor Faustus.
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Patrick White Beyond the Grave
Carrying forward the momentum of the twenty-first-century ‘rediscovery’ of Patrick White (1912–1990), winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, this book features work by White scholars aiming to stimulate future research into ‘world’ modernism, queer literature, and the ‘jittery’ modernist ...
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Betwixt and Between
‘Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft’ identifies the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities and gaps that have run rampant in biographies on Wollstonecraft, many of them incomprehensively left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. It also analyzes ...
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Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture
Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. The interdisciplinary collection reveals how Irish artists grapple with modernist leg...
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George Eliot's Grammar of Being
Drawing on original manuscripts and Victorian psychological theory, this study shows that George Eliot was an author who shaped her sentences as carefully as she wanted her public to read them.
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The Varieties of Joycean Experience
A collection of essays on Joyce’s work stressing variations of approach. Forays into and across Joyce’s oeuvre would draw upon a number of new and recent modes of criticism, including textual genetics, cognitive studies, and ecocriticism.
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Empire and the Animal Body
‘Empire and the Animal Body’ develops recent work in animal studies, ecocriticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature.
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Enlightenment Travel and British Identities
‘Enlightenment Travel and British Identities’ is the first-ever collection of essays devoted to the influential eighteenth-century travel-writer, antiquarian and naturalist, Thomas Pennant (1726–1798). Offering a truly multidisciplinary range of perspectives, it explores the complex networks of i...
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Teaching Later British Literature
Designed for both first-time teachers of survey courses in later British literature and more experienced instructors seeking a new way to approach familiar material, ‘A Handbook to Teaching Later British Literature’ presents a synthetic and adaptable framework for guiding students through British...
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Satire, Comedy and Tragedy
This book provides a closereading of the satiric, comic, and tragic plot structures of TristramShandy and then traces the themes that inform Laurence Sterne’s greatest novel to his letters, sermons, and other writings. The book also argues for a writing-to-learn approach to teaching Sterne’s recu...
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Prizing Scottish Literature
This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reveal about the wider...
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Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the 'Quaker Poet'
The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton’s selected verse, recovering an important figure from the Romantic era. A diverse variety of his unusual and striking poetry is supplemented by letters, reviews and other contextual material, as well as a scholarly introduction and notes.
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On Beckett
“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.
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Dream and Literary Creation in Women’s Writings in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
This edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in women’s writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from the end of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century with a strong focus on the Romantic period and particularly on Mary Shelley...
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The World as It Goes
Despite a recent surge of scholarly interest in Hannah Cowley’s works, her scandalous comedy The World as It Goes has never been published. This edition of The World as It Goes is supplemented with an introduction providing cultural, theatrical, historical and biographical contexts and contempora...
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Samuel Richardson as Anonymous Editor and Printer
This study offers a comprehensive account of Samuel Richardson’s numerous editorial interventions in producing books and pamphlets from his press.
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Improvisations of Empire
‘Improvisations of Empire’ examines the varied career of Thomas Pringle, a Scottish poet and journalist. It engages his formative Scottish years, his stay in South Africa and his subsequent residence in London where he became the secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society and a well-known editor.
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Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834
Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theol...
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Touching God
The first book devoted to the study of love in the writings of Gerald Manley Hopkins, ‘Touching God’ offers fresh readings of Hopkins’ poetry by considering love in relation to mutual touch.
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Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy
By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative...
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Jane Austen's Families
“Jane Austen’s Families” focuses on family dynamics in Jane Austen’s six novels, especially on interaction between parents and children. It examines with particular care the relations of fathers and daughters.
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Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway
‘Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway’ explores the surprising significance of Norway in the writing of British women during the nineteenth century, the country offering a place of freedom and possibility beyond Victorian Britain.
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Virginia Woolf
Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf’s relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester weaves a colorful, intense drama that forces readers to rethink their understanding of Woolf,...
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Decadences
This volume follows shifting conceptions of decadence in art and society at various moments in British literature. The decline from a higher standard, social malaise, aesthetic ennui—all of these ideas presume certain facts about the past, the present, and time's linear nature. To reject the past...
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Formal Investigations
These essays explore the taxonomies and relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles, and methodologies of detective and crime fiction in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period. The influences on the genre's artists are as varied as the era's interests in scientific method, forensics, archa...
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London, Queer Spaces and Historiography in the Works of Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst
Júlia Braga Neves shows how queer spaces are pivotal for the representation of queer history in works by the British authors Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst, whose characters and plots are articulated through and within London’s sexual geographies. She reflects on queer historiography and the ...
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Fictocritical Strategies
Gerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses as well as aesthetics with poetics and ethics. The slash here signals the conjunction between a self-reflexive ficto-critical insight and a wider discu...
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Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity
Wendy Graham traces the critical discourses that shaped the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s reception and continues to inform responses to them. She explains the mechanics of fame and the politics of scandal contributing to the rise of aestheticism, providing a new interpretation of the place of aes...
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Post-Apartheid Criticism
South Africa’s post-apartheid narrative is one of democracy and equality—but its flaws run deep, argues Ives S. Loukson. Disclosing prejudices about whiteness, homosexuality, and democracy, he lays the foundation for post-apartheid criticism that differs from postcolonial criticism.
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Lasting Impressions
Jesse Matz considers its two legacies—positive and negative—to explain impressionism’s true contemporary significance.
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At the Mercy of Their Clothes
In much of modern fiction, it is the clothes that make the character. Garments embody personal and national histories. They convey wealth, status, aspiration, and morality (or a lack thereof). They suggest where characters have been and where they might be headed, as well as whether or not they a...
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Comparative Practices
The contributors to this volume investigate the role of comparative practices in the formation of eighteenth-century literature and culture. The book conceives of social practices of comparing as being entrenched in networks of circulation and considers how such practices ordered and changed Brit...
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The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity
With the advent of the reformation, concepts of living and dying were profoundly reconfigured. As purgatory disappeared from the spiritual landscape, other paths to the afterlife were rediscovered. Thus, when life draws to a close, the passage to the afterlife becomes a last pilgrimage, a popular...
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Falsifying Beckett
The dozen essays brought together here, alongside a newly-written introduction, contextualize and exemplify the recent 'empirical turn' in Beckett studies. Characterized, above all, by recourse to manuscript materials in constructing revisionist interpretations, this approach has helped to transf...
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Wrinkled Deep in Time
Shakespeare was acutely aware of our intimate struggles with aging. His dramatic characters either prosper or suffer according to their relationship with maturity, and his sonnets eloquently explore time's ravaging effects. "Wrinkled deep in time" is how the queen describes herself in Antony and ...
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A Poetics of Neurosis
While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies have adopted the term by virtue of its abstractness. This volume investigates the verbalization of neurosis in literary and cultural texts. As opposed ...
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Tom Holland's Beowulf
In this unique work, acclaimed historian, Tom Holland takes up Beowulf with his pen at the ready.
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Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue
Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of the cultural anxieties created by imperialism. She suggests that while colonial writers use narrati...
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Imagined Economies – Real Fictions
The contributions to this anthology take debates about the financial crisis, recent austerity measures, and the Brexit referendum a step further by showing how a common denominator of these dynamics is underlying ideas of “the economy.” Each author identifies a facet of Britain’s imagined economies.
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Shakespeare and the Jews
A new edition of the groundbreaking book that took full measure of how Jews were imagined in Shakespeare’s time.
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Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science
In the half-century between 1890 and 1950, a variety of fields and disciplines, from musicology and literary studies to biology, psychology, genetics, and eugenics, expressed a profound interest in the subject of rhythm. In this book, Michael Golston recovers much of the work done in this area an...
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Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography
Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stori...
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Literature and the Cult of Personality
The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the center of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethe's authority, a previously hidden chapter in t...
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Mind Presentation in Ian McEwan's Fiction
This book explores the central fictional minds in three of Ian McEwan's most popular narratives. Mind presentation constitutes the main part of characterization in the second phase of McEwan's writing, where his plot structure depends to a large degree on the presentation of the characters' menta...
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The Poets and Poetry of Munster
This multi-author book of essays examines the work of more than twenty poets from South Western Ireland who write in both English and Irish.
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Atmosfears: The Uncanny Climate of Contemporary Ecofiction
Natalie Dederichs draws on the new materialisms about the entangled nature of planetary existence and combines them with approaches to aesthetics to introduce a poetics of atmospheric reading experiences.
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History's Queer Stories
Critical analysis of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable by its absence. Natalie Marena Nobitz analyzes four novels dealing with the disruption of gender roles and institutionalized heteronormativity during the war.
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Stereotypically Autistic?
Awareness for autism is rising but fictional portrayals remain for the most part one-sided and stereotypical.
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Breeding
The Enlightenment commitment to reason naturally gave rise to a belief in the perfectibility of man. Influenced by John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many eighteenth-century writers argued that the proper education and upbringingbreedingcould make any man a member of the cultural elite. Yet ...
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Iris Murdoch and Her Work
This book explores different aspects of Murdoch's work including her philosophy and fiction, focusing on a wide variety of issues ranging from reading "Murdoch as a fabulator" to the central role Murdoch plays in the "ethical turn." Approaching Murdoch's work from multiple perspectives, this book...
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Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930
Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein Nord traces various representations of Gypsies in the works of such well-known British authors John Clare...
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Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction
This study delineates the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel (1989), Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991), and Syl Cheney-Coker's The...
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On Making Fiction
Friederike Danebrock shows how texts insist that we take them seriously as agents and interlocutors in our world- and culture-making activities.
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Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life
Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plans, room designs, and decorative art, Victoria Rosner's work explores...
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The Fate of Ideas
As editor of the magazine Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century’s most transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, Boye...
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Bouncing Back: Queer Resilience in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century English Literature and Culture
LGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses to their affective lives. This book makes the concept of resilience available to queer literary and cultural studies, analyzing these strategies in t...
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Savage Horrors
The American Gothic novel has been deeply shaped by issues of race and raciality from its origins in British Romanticism to the twenty-first century. Corinna Lenhardt uncovers the destructive and lasting impact of the Gothic’s anti-Black racism on cultural discourses in the United States and trac...
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Subverting the Leviathan
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader. Martel demonstrates th...
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The Extinct Scene
Examines late modernism’s decisive turn toward everyday life, locating in the heightened scrutiny of details, textures, and experiences an intimate attempt to conceptualize geopolitical disorder.
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Beyond the Original
The contributors to this book delve into the playful and performative nature of translations that embrace ambiguity, confusion, and even failure.
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Store Kongensgade 23
In this autobiographical essay, Danish poet Søren Ulrik Thomsen returns to the place—and the year—that shaped his life.
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Fellowship
Eclectic and experimental in style, this poetry collection and its stylistic range reflects the diversity of research in the field of medicine. The topics examined range from health economics and specific diseases to biological mechanisms and technology platforms used in research. Some also provi...
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Wine in Old and New Bottles
This volume presents a galaxy of traditional and modern critical approaches to Joseph Conrad's oeuvre, ranging from biographical and autobiographical studies to literary comparisons with John Milton, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Cormac McCarthy; from postcolonial and Marxi...
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Minor Characters Have Their Day
Jeremy Rosen traces the recent surge books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new work. A genre that sought to recover the voices of marginalized individuals and groups has begun to embody the neoliberal commitments of subjective experience, ind...
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The Problem with Pleasure
A revealing study of the sensual tensions powering the period’s formal and ideological innovations.
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Home/Fronts
Janina Wierzoch offers an analytical survey of British contemporary war narratives in novels, drama, film, and television that seek to make sense of the experience. The study shows how the narratives, instead of reflecting on the UK`s role as invader, portray war as invading the British home.
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British White Trash
"White trash" is a liminal figure that dramatizes the intersection of race and class. Contemporary British novelists like Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King use this originally US-American stereotype to interrogate the racializing discourse of class in British society. Their novels are i...
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Prose of the World
Everyday life in the far outposts of empire can be static, empty of the excitement of progress. A pervading sense of banality and boredom are, therefore, common elements of the daily experience for people living on the colonial periphery. Saikat Majumdar suggests that this impoverished affective ...
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Pliable Pupils and Sufficient Self-Directors
In Pliable Pupils and Sufficient Self-Directors, Barnita Bagchi examines writings that focus on female education and development by five representative British women writers who flourished between 1778 and 1814 - Lady Mary Hamilton, Clara Reeve, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Brunton, and the early Jan...
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Aesthetic Nervousness
Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disa...
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Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul
Born into a Polish szlachta (noble) family, the extraordinary modern novelist Joseph Conrad maintained, even in exile, strong ties to his Polish heritage and culture. Yet the author earned renown by writing in English, often about nautical adventures in remote parts of the world. In Joseph Conrad...
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Between Men
Introducing a new generation to the book that changed humanities scholarship.
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