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The Death Drive

The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary and cultural theory, this book features contributions from a range of prominent scholars …

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Theodore Dalrymple
Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder

The twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson chided Agatha Christie for her "mawkishness and banality" and declared her work "literally impossible to read." Even if this were so…

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Antonio Sergio Bessa
Noigandres

The Noigandres group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessa's account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. T…

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Ágota Márton
Geometries of Empathy

What does it mean to empathize today?Virginia Woolf was convinced that 'the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved', first and foremost, to 'e…

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Stephen Orgel
The Texts of Shakespeare

How did plays from the popular theatre, written by an author better known as a poet, become the greatest literary monument in English? Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how the transformation o…

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Louis Klee
The Constellational Novel

A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form. The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary literature b…

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Emmy Waldman
Filial Lines

This is the first book to place the autobiographical projects of canonical comics authors Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel alongside each other, focusing on new and neglected works (and with an epilogue …

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Antonio Sergio Bessa
Noigandres

The Noigandres group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessa's account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. T…

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Caroline Rody
Writing the Great House

The great house is renowned as the setting for countless English novels and films. But Writing the Great House shows it to be not only an influential icon in the history of the European novel but also a t…

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Global King Lear

Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Lear with a focus on productions across Asia and Eastern Europe. By approaching Shakespeare's great tragedy as a global …

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Michèle Roberts
Colette

The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling. Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her w…

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Lucy Evans
Crime Fiction in the Caribbean

Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, Lucy Evans explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to raise pressing questions…

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Clare Egan
Performing Libel in the Provinces

A study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces during the reign of James I. The book focuses on the libel cases between private individuals tried in t…

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Michael Wood
Marcel Proust

A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust.What would the world be like without this work? Where would we be if it hadn't happened? This is how Michael Wood found himself…

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Richard Fallon
Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935

Explores the ways in which nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers engaged with the scientific description of Earth's deep history that geologists of the period had presented.

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James Metcalf
Churchyard Poetics

The churchyard is a familiar but little-understood literary landscape in eighteenth-century scholarship. This book recovers work by women and labouring-class poets to argue that the churchyard was an impo…

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Elizabeth Kraft
The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld: Volume 3

The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld presents, for the first time, all the known surviving works of this major English writer, who lived from 1743 to 1825. Poet, essayist, editor, innovative write…

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Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer
Cervantes the Poet

Cervantes the Poet travels from the court of Isabel de Valois to Rome, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, and Madrid's barrio de las letras. Recovering Cervantes' nearly forty-year literary career before the publi…

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Keru Cai
Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism

Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism shows how early twentieth-century Chinese writers drew upon Russian realist fiction to develop new types of literature in China. They used elements found in Russian ficti…

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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning

First published in 1864, Dramatis Personæ is the second of the two great collections of Robert Browning's middle years, following Men and Women nine years previously. An extraordinary imaginative and tech…

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