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Peter Cockett, Melinda Gough

Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond

Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond steps beyond the myth of the all-male stage, centring feminist, queer, and trans scholars and artists to reveal the deeper complexities of gender…

Oscar Peterson (1925-2007)

The Classic Years

Scott Selisker

Character Networks in Contemporary U.S. Fiction

A defining shift in 21st-century American culture has been the visibility of our social networks. Our vocabulary for understanding politics and culture is now saturated with terms describing patterns of p…

Literary Manifestations of Metamodernism

A collection of literary essays investigating how diverse aspects of metamodernism manifest in 21st-century English-language fiction. The authors whose essays are collected in the volume analyze how vario…

Eliot Now

Eliot Now -the first collection of essays written with full access to T. S. Eliot's recently published Complete Prose and Poems-combines contemporary critical approaches with a sustained inquiry into the …

Unsettling Extinction

Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection presents cutting-edge work on species extinction from a wide variety of perspectives acr…

Irena Makaryk, Irena R Makaryk

Shakespeare in Ukraine

Often regarded as a playwright "beyond nationality," Shakespeare has played a central role in Ukraine's cultural history over the past two centuries. His works have served as both a lens for exp…

Ayn Rand

For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Here is Ayn Rand's first non-fiction work-a challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion…

Joshua Gooch

Dispositions of Liberalism in Victorian Literature

Joshua Gooch examines how nineteenth-century writers use genre to imagine new ways of thinking-feeling about their implication by racial capitalism, from hope and trust to comfort, cunning, and defiance.C…

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…

Edward Watts

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the "Indian Hater" in American writing fr…

Emily McAvan,

Pollution Theory

Using speculative modes like science fiction novels, film and modernist painting, this book investigates the ways that pollution has come to define every aspect of material life in the Anthropocene.Offeri…

Andrew Hammond

Modern European Borders in Fiction

There are few features of the contemporary world more significant than national and regional borders. In modern Europe, the practices of human division have defined the continent from the early years of t…

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…

Michael Lackey

German Exile Biofiction

Shows how after the Nazis came to power, prominent exile writers used biofiction to provide readers with a means of identifying root causes of political oppression.There were biofictions before the 20th c…

David Day

Dark Powers of Tolkien Deluxe Edition

The villains of Middle-earth are explored in rich and colorful detail in this deluxe edition that will stand out on your shelf.The vast fictional universe of J. R. R. Tolkien contains many dark terrors to…

Lukasz Wodzynski

Romancing Modernism

In the development of modernist fiction, perhaps no artistic product has had as vaunted a place as the novel, a genre theorized primarily with recourse to Western authors. Here, Łukasz Wodzyński challenge…

Helen Small, John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill and the Idea of the University

John Stuart Mill's Inaugural Address as Rector of the University of St Andrews, delivered in 1867, is one of the great statements of the principles that should underpin a liberal higher education. This vo…

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…