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Kevin Ohi

Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction

Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction explores how narrative language renders subjective states of interiority and desire. Its detailed readings consider seminal modernists-Ford, Woolf, Faulk…

Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver

Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

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…

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 …

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 Rise of Rhythm Studies

Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection shows how transformative the study of rhythm can be across the humanities and social sciences.

Alexandra Effe

A History of Autofiction in English

This book maps the development of autofictional modes from the 18th century to the 21st, setting them against socio-historical changes, cultural trends and philosophical-psychological discussions around s…

Remy Attig

Linguistic Labor and Literary Doulas

"Building on sociolinguistic understandings of the intersections of language, nation, and identity, this book examines the literatures of the unstandardized languages of Spanglish, Portuänol, and Jud…

Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing

Explores the stylistic and formal inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers from Britain, the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa, investigating how they experiment with representations of su…

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…

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…

Mandy-Suzanne Wong,

Daughter of Mother-Of-Pearl

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

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…

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 …

Stephen Watkins

Shakespeare and the Restoration Repertory

This Element provides the first comprehensive study of William Davenant's Shakespeare adaptations within the broader context of the Restoration repertory. It reveals how Davenant adapted the plays in dire…

Evelyn Gajowski,

Shakespeare and Presentist Theory

Why do Shakespeare's texts resonate so powerfully for us in the 21st century, 400 years after he wrote and produced them? Why is he more popular today than ever before? Why is that popularity now occurrin…

Maria Nasioula

By Heart or from the Scroll

Grammatika vases, one of the most distinctive varieties of Hellenistic relief pottery, present modern scholars with compelling research opportunities, as they document the reception of ancient Greek liter…