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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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Spencer Jordan,
Metamodernism and the Postdigital in the Contemporary Novel

Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Jennifer Egan and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book provides an innovative and original analysis of the …

lieferbar ab 28.5.2026.

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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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Oliver Rendle
Cosmic Humour and Philosophical Pessimism in Contemporary Culture

An in-depth look at the concept of cosmic humour, a politically influential, philosophically pessimistic form of humour, this book explores the popularity of this comedic form across Anglophone culture si…

lieferbar ab 9.7.2026.

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David Sergeant
The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these disparat…

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Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Macbeth

New avenues for teaching MacbethShakespeare's Macbeth combines the themes of ambition, assassination, guilt, and the supernatural in ways that continue to provoke questions about political legitimacy, the…

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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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A History of Modern French Literature

"This is a tremendous achievement, bringing into a single volume much of the best writing and thinking on French literature that is currently available anywhere. It is highly readable, full of energe…

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Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Macbeth

New avenues for teaching MacbethShakespeare's Macbeth combines the themes of ambition, assassination, guilt, and the supernatural in ways that continue to provoke questions about political legitimacy, the…

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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…

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Joel Childers
The Historical Poem

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story of its precursors. For eighteenth-century and Romantic thinkers, these were poems from dista…

lieferbar ab 31.3.2026.

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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 acts as a defense in the navigation of propagat…

lieferbar ab 28.5.2026.

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Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Why should classical antiquity matter to Irish migration? Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity argues that ancient Greece and Rome have shaped Irish migration narratives from the earliest texts to the…

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Julie Nelson Couch, Kimberly K. Bell
Gaming in the Medieval English Text

This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the enigmatic fourteenth-century Middle English romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, la…

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Kerry Dodd
Encountering Material Culture Through Archaeological Fiction

Investigating the representation of artefacts, objects and 'things' in a range of predominantly Western archaeological fiction from the late Victorian period to the modern day, this book examines the narr…

lieferbar ab 25.6.2026.

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Christine Ferguson
Open Secrets

Open Secrets sheds new light on the fascinating popular fiction produced by key writers within Britain's occult revival, including Edward Bulwer Lytton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Marie Corelli, Mabel Collins…

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Helen Vendler
Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays

In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia PlathHelen Vendler was our grea…

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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…

lieferbar ab 20.8.2026.

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Gerry Smyth
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, env…

lieferbar ab 25.6.2026.

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Sarah Coogan
Nostalgia and National Identity in the British and Irish Modernist Epic

This book focuses on the modernist epic, analyzing the intricate manifestations of nostalgia in these texts in order to provide a new perspective on the emotion's political ramifications. It argues that t…

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