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Madhu Krishnan, Doseline Kiguru

Literary Activism in 21st-Century Africa

Drawing on case studies from Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya and Uganda, this open access book explores the ways in which literary activism operates as an essential site of self-making an…

Natania Meeker

Illusive Materialisms

Illusive Materialisms brings a close attention to gender to bear on the philosophical and political argument that sensual pleasure, framed as a mode of feminine responsiveness, is the primary business of …

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 …

Steven Connor

Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

Natania Meeker

Illusive Materialisms

Illusive Materialisms brings a close attention to gender to bear on the philosophical and political argument that sensual pleasure, framed as a mode of feminine responsiveness, is the primary business of …

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…

Sarah Jones

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medica…

Oscar Peterson (1925-2007)

The Classic Years

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…

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…

Bárbara Gallego Larrarte,

Intergenerational Modernism

A study of cross-generational literary networks in interwar Britain, this book investigates how writers in the 1930s emerged from the shadow of their older modernist contemporaries such as E. M. Forster, …

Joseph Conrad's Cultural Legacy

"In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of collected essays by leading critics and scholars in the field of Conrad studies as wel…

John Gordon

Sensational Joyce

Exploring how Ulysses imitates the human mind at work, connecting close readings to psychological theories of Joyce's timeIn this book, John Gordon uses historically oriented close readings to demonstrate…

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…

The Vintage Caravan

Monuments (Limited Edition) (Black Vinyl)

Monuments verbindet modernen Psychedelic-Prog-Rock mit 70er-Jahre-Nostalgie! Virtuose 70er-Jahre-Rock-Gitarrenriffs treffen auf eine unwiderlegbare Mischung aus erstaunlichen modernen Elementen und kla…

Herbie Hancock (geb. 1940)

Maiden Voyage (UHQ-CD)

Jedes einzelne Stück auf diesem Album, vom eindringlichen "Maiden Voyage" bis zum sanft swingenden "Dolphin Dance", hat seinen Weg in das Standardrepertoire des Jazz gefunden. Herbie Hancock hat mit seine…

Richard Sperber,

Intertextual Exoticism

Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "intertextuality" (Kris…