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Kazumitsu Ito

Statistical Data Analysis of Japanese Literature

While working as a full-time doctor at a hospital in the suburbs of Iwata City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, I have been studying Japanese literature. This book was the culmination of over 10 years of dedi…

Michèle Roberts

Colette

Prize-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and memoirist Michèle Roberts tells of her experience of reading the novels of French writer Colette, whose work has inspired and encouraged her throughou…

Alex Tickell

City Fictions of the New India

This books adopts a parallel approach to literary and urban form to understand how contemporary Indian English fiction engages with the city as the exemplary site of the so-called 'New India'. A wide rang…

Priyanka Anne Jacob

The Victorian Novel on File

This book argues that the capacious and cluttered Victorian novel was formally shaped by the nineteenth century information explosion and by the pressure to store unprecedented amounts of data. The study …

Pamela Bickley, Jenny Stevens

Essential Shakespeare

A go-to guide to help undergraduates navigate their way through university Shakespeare, examining 16 key plays.

Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver

Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

¡Ay Tú!

A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros.

Performing Shakespeare in India

This book is envisaged as an intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, into questions of what constitutes Indianness for the colonial and the postcolonial subject and the ro…

Myka Tucker-Abramson

Cartographies of Empire

The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road trying to recapture an authentic youth and American past that never existed. Yet, new ro…

Adam Roberts

Fantasy

One of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers. In this book, a concise history of the …

Ani Kokobobo

Leo Tolstoy

"The Tolstoy that emerges from this volume is a thinker who resists easy answers, explores contradictions, and seeks deeper reconciliation. This collection presents him as an open-ended conversation …

David Ben-Merre

O

Considers how a series of poets reimagined the possibilities of "O" as a gesture of apostrophe and, even more so, of writing.In poetry circles, "O" is commonly associated with apostrop…

Ira Nadel

The American Sentence

A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story of American letters - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - to ask …

Dion Dobrzynski,

Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction

Examining books by William Morris, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Ursula K. Le Guin, three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book explores how fantasy writers engage with forest…

Penny Bradshaw

An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding of her writing and its legacies via twenty six alphabetically arranged and interlinked essay…

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Tod und Verklärung op. 24 (1889)

Writing Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis

Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences, this book explores borders and crossings in relation to environmental damage and injustic…

In the Shadow of the Holocaust

" In the Shadow of the Holocaust is a collection of newly translated short fiction written in the aftermath of one of the most significant Jewish tragedies of the 20th century. In these works, Jewish…

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…