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Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture

An exploration into how the figure of the zombie uniquely articulates the societal changes prompted by the health, ecological and ideological threats to humanity in the 2020s and what such narratives can …

Melissa Frazier

Signs of the Material World

Signs of the Material World traces the literary effects of nineteenth-century materialism that includes the mind and body within a multifaceted "living life." The book examines a range of scient…

Oscar Peterson (1925-2007)

The Classic Years

Ulysses in Critical Perspective

In this survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, seasoned Joyceans introduce the methodologies that have made significant contributions to understanding the novel.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives

Providing a broad, definitive account of how the 'archival turn' in humanities scholarship has shaped modernist studies, this book also functions as an ongoing 'practitioner's toolkit' (including useful b…

Patrick Armstrong

Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and…

Laura Bradley

Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship

Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre sought to change how spectators watched performances, equipping them to critique and intervene in the world outside the theatre. Taking its cue from his call for theatre to d…

Colette Colligan, Gregory Mackie

Oscar Wilde's Paris

Oscar Wilde's Paris: Legends and Legacies chronicles Wilde's lifelong relationship with the French capital, the city he called "the most wonderful city in the world," and the site of his rise to…

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…

Gary Saul Morson

Wonder Confronts Certainty

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of great writers with philosophical wanderers and blood-soaked radicals reveal a contes…

Carmen Lamas

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth century does not merely create a bridge between the US and La…

Maaheen Ahmed,

Lynda Barry

A complete introduction to the comics and graphic narratives of Lynda Barry, this book maps the historical and biographical contexts, key texts, the critical themes and debates surrounding her publication…

Brinda J Mehta

The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East

The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East focuses on the writings of women authors from North Africa and the Middle East who open a critica…

Ashokan Nambiar C

Print and the Novel in 19th Century Kerala

The book demonstrates how the early novel can be seen as a good site to think about what was effected by the print technology in the last decades of the 19th Century in Kerala. It was in the novel that ch…

Jeffrey Meyers

Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway

The multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers's magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach has ne…

Phillip Lopate

A Washington Irving Sketch Book

A richly textured portrait of an American man of letters who came to exemplify the writer's life with all its setbacks and triumphsWashington Irving (1783--1859) is often considered America's first profes…

Amanda Anderson, Simon During

Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities…

Marcel Proust, Helen Constantine, Adam Watt

Sodom and Gomorrah

'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident'The fourth volume…

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism shows that Wharton was highly engaged with global issues of her time, due in part to her extensive travel abroad. Examining both her canonical and lesser-known works and …