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Patrick Jones
Henry James and the Question of Living

A bold reinterpretation of Henry James's fictional universe that shows how characters who desire to "live" but struggle to translate that desire into reality actually have much to teach us about…

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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Alexis Chema
Adorned

Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals -- that is, in the repositories where h…

available from 4.8.2026.

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Claudia Olk
Shakespeare and Beckett

"The danger is in the neatness of identifications", Samuel Beckett famously stated, and, at first glance, no two authors could be further distant from one another than William Shakespeare and Sa…

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Michael Dirda
The Great Age of Storytelling

With infectious enthusiasm, "the best read person in America"---as Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Dirda has been called---aims to rekindle our passion for classic works of adventure, mystery, fan…

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Alexis Chema
Adorned

Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals -- that is, in the repositories where h…

available from 4.8.2026.

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Jeffrey F Keuss,
Activism and the Literary Self in 20th- And 21st-Century Literature

Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E. Butler engage with social justice and activism, this book explores the significant role tha…

available from 20.8.2026.

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Günter Leypoldt
Literature's Social Lives

This book draws from literary sociology to look at literature in a longue durée (from Romantic poetry to the Toni-Morrison novel). It proposes a new value theory, and sketches an institutional history of …

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Colette Nic Aodha
David Jones, Disability and Modernist Form

Employing a fresh theoretical approach to David Jones' work, this is the first book to use disability studies as a lens through which to consider his post-war work.

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Heidi Craig
Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

"Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the "death" of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renai…

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Michael Chapman
Literary Transactions in South Africa

A representative overview of some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary literary criticism in South Africa, demonstrating literary form's shaping power in the interpretation of politically content…

available from 23.7.2026.

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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…

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Sophie Gee
Making Waste

The obsession with waste in eighteenth-century English literatureWhy was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers su…

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Ellen Scheible,
Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction

Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, this book provides readings of the power and authority of the femin…

available from 23.7.2026.

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Brad Kent
Censorship and the Irish Writer

Censorship affected the careers of many Irish writers and transformed the trajectory of modern Irish literature. Although some authors were reluctant to defend themselves and their art, others strenuously…

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James Peacock,
Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction

Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom and Australia. Litera…

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Elizabeth Ludlow,
Prayer and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing

In the 19th century, an era that saw a reconfiguration of the relationship between the self, the world and the divine, women writers probed the theological depths of embodied faith in new ways through poe…

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Abigail Williams
Reading It Wrong

"How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation--and how this still shapes the way we read. Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores w…

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Agata Szczeszak-Brewer,
Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures

Nationalist and tribal cohesion in Ireland, South Africa, the US, and elsewhere often relies on an absence of female and gender-nonconforming bodies in the public life. Staging a vital counter-narrative t…

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Kim Wheatley
John Cowper Powys and the Afterlife of Romanticism

This study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872 -1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to …

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