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Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the histor…

Maria Frawley

Jane Austen in 50 Words

This selection of short, engaging essays examines and explains key terms that Jane Austen repeatedly drew on in her fiction, words which have faded from everyday use today but are vital to understanding h…

Tides of Progress

The first study of Anglo-Hispanic exchanges in print culture between the Spanish-American War and the Spanish Civil War, surfacing new archival materials to shed light on global modernities and regional i…

Elisha Jane Cohn

Milieu

In this creaturely theory of the novel, Elisha Cohn rethinks the status of animals in recent global fiction, arguing that literary representation of animals should matter to any reader invested in the nov…

Jeffrey C Kinkley

China Mysteries

With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and educati…

The Irish Proust

This collection of essays is the first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust's influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work. Featuring contributions from eleven scholars of French and …

Decolonizing Knowledge

Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonization politics forward by revisiting the writings of the mid-20th century anti-colonial movements' leading intellectuals.

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Tod und Verklärung op. 24 (1889)

Natalie Pollard,

21st-Century Climate Imaginaries

Adopting a comparative approach, this book argues that many iconic 21st-century metaphors and images used to communicate climate change and ecological crisis actually conceal the destructive foundations o…

Elena Emma Sottilotta

Seekers of Wonder

"This book reappraises women's contribution to the field of folklore and fairy-tale studies in Italy and Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by exploring their role as preser…

Mandy-Suzanne Wong,

Daughter of Mother-Of-Pearl

Seventeen ingenious essays devoted to snails' and aquatic invertebrates' uncanny ways of living

Philip Meadows Taylor,

Confessions of a Thug

Confessions of a Thug was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since …

Home and the World in Slovak Writing

Home and the World in Slovak Writing brings Slovak literature out of isolation and tells the story of how a nation's literature can survive and thrive despite a small domestic audience and limited circula…

Michèle Willems,

Classicizing Shakespeare

This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis (1733-1816), the first adaptor of Hamlet and of five other Shakespeare tragedies for the French theatre.Jean-Franço…

Sarah Quesada

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in World Literature a…

Rebecca Yearling

Shakespeare's Violence and the Early Modern Spectator

This book explores how Shakespeare's original audience might have responded to his scenes of violence and, in the process, makes the case that fictional violence is valuable because it tells us about ours…

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…

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.