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Heidi Craig
Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

"Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the "death" of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renai…

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Gabriele Lazzari,
New Global Realism

Shortlisted for the BACLS Monograph Prize 2025 A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities …

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A History of Modern French Literature

"This is a tremendous achievement, bringing into a single volume much of the best writing and thinking on French literature that is currently available anywhere. It is highly readable, full of energe…

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Gordon M Williams
From Scenes Like These

Shortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize 'A masterpiece' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain ' An extraordinary novel' - Michael Magee, author of Close to Home ' It deserves its modern classic sta…

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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…

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Paul Fyfe
Digital Victorians

"Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, t…

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Matthew Oliver,
Reading Length in Fantasy Fiction

Reframing debates surrounding long narratives to explore their impact, this book develops a critical vocabulary for discussing the formal, social, and political affordances of length and duration in fanta…

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Joel Childers
The Historical Poem

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story of its precursors. For eighteenth-century and Romantic thinkers, these were poems from dista…

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John Rieder
Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction's power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises, this book demonstrates how the genre acts as a defense in the navigation of propagat…

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Kerry Dodd
Encountering Material Culture Through Archaeological Fiction

Investigating the representation of artefacts, objects and 'things' in a range of predominantly Western archaeological fiction from the late Victorian period to the modern day, this book examines the narr…

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Christine Ferguson
Open Secrets

Open Secrets sheds new light on the fascinating popular fiction produced by key writers within Britain's occult revival, including Edward Bulwer Lytton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Marie Corelli, Mabel Collins…

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Gerry Smyth
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, env…

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Helen Vendler
Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays

In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia PlathHelen Vendler was our grea…

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Gerry Smyth
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940

In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, env…

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Michael Chapman
Literary Transactions in South Africa

A representative overview of some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary literary criticism in South Africa, demonstrating literary form's shaping power in the interpretation of politically content…

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Susan J Wolfson
Romanticism's Generative Reading

In Romanticism's Generative Reading , Susan Wolfson convenes an innovative array of subjects, texts, and cultural situations: lightning, Frankenstein, textual editing, Shakespeare read by girls, and Willi…

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Angela Carter's Futures

This book explores Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories.Examining topics…

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Keith Hanley,
Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century

Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to rep…

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Susan J Wolfson
Romanticism's Generative Reading

In Romanticism's Generative Reading , Susan Wolfson convenes an innovative array of subjects, texts, and cultural situations: lightning, Frankenstein, textual editing, Shakespeare read by girls, and Willi…

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Tobias William Harris,
Flann O'Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934-45

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences.Situating O…

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