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Marius Hentea

Literary Treason

Can you commit treason by "mere words"? "Do civilized peoples shoot their poets?" Are there limits to free expression? Grappling with these questions, this open access book tells the f…

Beckett and Nature

New analyses on the insightful ways in which Beckett's work actively engages with contested notions of Nature and the natural, developing a radical version of modernism's main questions and insights.Becke…

Natalie Roxburgh

The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature historicizes the concept of disinterestedness by examining discourses on political economy during and before the 19th century. It argues …

Lesa Scholl

Medicine, Theology and Wellness in Britain from the Enlightenment to Modernity

Focusing questions of the soul and its relationship to the body in the context of Britain from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, this book exploresthe ways in which medicine and theology…

Angela Carter's Futures

This book explores Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories.Examining topics…

Paul Fyfe

Digital Victorians

"Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, t…

John Berger

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

A stunning, unclassifiable work by one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers and writers, this book is an inspiring amalgam of letters, poetry, and profound musings on everything from Caravaggio to…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Relaxing Mozart

Günter Leypoldt

Literature's Social Lives

Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between two relatively distinct domains of value, "strong" and "weak"--Literatur…

Harriet Fletcher

Gothic Celebrity

Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to disrupt the narrative of immortality that modern celebrity culture has created and how toge…

John Rieder

Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction's power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises,this book demonstrates how the genre provides resources against demagogic falsehoods,…

British Academy

2001 Lectures

Volume 117 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 16 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2001.

Douglas RJ. Small

Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and …

Power and Society in Terry Pratchett's Discworld

A critical deep-drive into conceptions of power and society in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, this book brings together experts in fantasy literature, political sciences, economics, philosophy, histo…

Lise Shapiro Sanders

Reading for Pleasure

Asserts that the popular romance offered new possibilities for young working women as social actors and media consumers in early 20th-century Britain.Young working women were the target audience for popul…

Julianne Sandberg,

Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist

Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic Title Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical roots o…

Stephen Knight

The Chartist Fiction of Ernest Jones

In this comprehensive study, Stephen Knight documents the writing career of Ernest Jones, one of the primary figures within the Chartist movement. While much has been said about Ernest Jones as a politica…

Lise Shapiro Sanders

Reading for Pleasure

Asserts that the popular romance offered new possibilities for young working women as social actors and media consumers in early 20th-century Britain.Young working women were the target audience for popul…

Anne Enright

Attention

For thirty years Anne Enright--one of our greatest living novelists (Times)--has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and gifting u…