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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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José Felipe Alvergue
Purplish

José Felipe Alvergue examines anger in American poetry, while reflecting on the permissible/policed cultural affects of our time. purplish challenges the idea of an objective or unbiased cultural rational…

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Kiron Ward,
Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction. Ch…

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Jeremy Rosen
Genre Bending

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular…

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Stephanie Bird
Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction

Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies this book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and complicity.

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Kir Kuiken
Adrift on the Earth

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to the present and addresses its legacies through works of European Romantic authors and contem…

lieferbar ab 21.4.2026.

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David Mence
Melville's Maritime Politics

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville (1819-1891). Reading Melville in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and …

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Stefanie Heine
Tangential Terrains

Tangential Terrains is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions of the desert and inorganic nature in Blood Meridian . Close readings of previously unexami…

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Beyond Modernism

Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism?Seeking an alternative history of British litera…

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Arvi Särkelä
Vicious Circles

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique has flourished that utilizes methods which disclose rather than judge the form of li…

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Jedidiah Evans
Look Abroad, Angel

Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) was one of the most influential southern writers, widely considered to rival his contemporary, William Faulkner--who believed Wolfe to be one of…

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Deborah Pike, Ann Vickery
Modernism Beyond the Canon

Modernist navigations with modernity are diverse and culturally nuanced. Taking students and researchers beyond the narrow canon of 'great modernists', Modernism Beyond the Canon is an essential introduct…

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Laura Jansen
Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics

Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics examines the role the Greco-Roman classics play in Susan Sontag's intellectual and literary achievement. The collected chapters consider Sontag as a case of a thinker in…

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Nub&,
The Genius of Invective

An exposition of Arabic literate culture In 11th-century Córdoba, the celebrated poet Ibn Zaydūn found himself jockeying for the affections of Wallādah, accomplished poet and free-spirited daughter of an …

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Arvi Särkelä
Vicious Circles

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique has flourished that utilizes methods which disclose rather than judge the form of li…

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Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, Nora Seligman Favorov, Anna A Berman, Hilde Hoogenboom
The Brother

'For his mother, he was a miracle. . . . Mothers can be deluded.'Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1821-89) was recognised in her day, both at home and abroad, as Russia's greatest writer after Tolstoy and Turgen…

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Lieven Ameel
Coastal Cities of the Future in Contemporary Literature

Focusing on writing about contemporary coastal cities, this open access book demonstrates how literature - in different genres, media, and cultural-geographical contexts - participates in shaping urban im…

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Hemingway and Italy

From his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway's Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. Hemi…

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H. D,
The Usual Star and The Moment

This scholarly edition makes available two little-known story collections by the modernist writer H.D., encouraging new ways of thinking about the role of the short story genre in H.D.'s life and career.

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Thomas Allen
Vital Moments

The environmental and political crises humanity faces today have given rise to influential new theories of life, matter, and time. Vitalism, a controversial term describing the ideas of philosophers from …

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