Topicality and Representation
This book explores how topical concerns shaped Islamic figures in Elizabethan plays like Peele’s Battle of Alcazar and Percy’s Mahomet and his Heaven. It argues these characters were formed by contemporary issues, rendering the term ‘representation’ debatable.
Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men
This collection explores the superhero’s evolution from 1930s comics to modern cinema. It examines how iconic heroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers reflect the historical contexts of their eras, from the Great Depression to the Cold War and beyond.
New essays examine Lord Byron’s bisexuality and its effect on his poetry and drama. This volume covers neglected aspects of his life, including his boyfriends and gender in *Don Juan*, and includes new editions of notorious poems with startling theories.
Embodying an Image
This book applies feminist cultural analysis to picturebooks, offering fresh insights into the gendered politics of identity. It investigates the child’s perspective and the power of visual imagery to embody the fantasies and desires of young children.
This study locates five contemporary British poets in a counter-cultural tradition responding to state power. From Celtic druids to Thatcherism, these shamanic poets use ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy’ to wrest spirituality from religion and politics.
Esther Tusquets
This volume reviews the life and work of Spanish writer Esther Tusquets (1936–2012). The essays contained offer new readings of the author’s canonical fiction and delve into the largely unexplored terrain of her non-fiction.
This exploration of women’s utopian and dystopian fiction reveals how imagined worlds critique gender roles and values. With a global perspective, essays focus on Doris Lessing and offer new perspectives on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
Twenty-first century crises demand a re-evaluation of modernism and postmodernism. This collection of essays by international scholars offers new perspectives on literature, film, art, and politics, navigating debates beyond the traditional dichotomy.
Within and Without Empire
This volume treats Scotland as a ‘theoretical borderland’ to question disciplinary borders. By bringing Scottish and postcolonial studies into dialogue, it fosters new paradigms for a deeper understanding of a world in dramatic flux and growing interdependence.
This volume investigates how accounts of the Arctic have shaped history. It examines the discourse of “Arcticism,” modelled on Orientalism, and intersecting narratives of imperialism, science, and indigeneity across a wide range of genres.
Notional Identities
This book examines popular Scottish speculative and crime fiction from the 1970s onward, investigating how these works engaged with national identity, a tumultuous political climate, and their relationship to mainstream literary writing.
Literature, Rhetoric and Values
These essays use cutting-edge scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting issues like torture, genocide, and environmental apocalypse. Authors essay the ethical dimensions of works from whisky bottles to graphic novels.
Richard Dadd is a trickster, an Elizabethan Puck in a Victorian insane asylum. His existence foreshadows the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, entering the fragmented shards of today’s world long before the artists who would try to map it.
Reflexive Poetics
This anthology presents fifteen exemplary poets from Springfield, Illinois, and advances a critical method. We garner much from reading the justly famed alongside the lesser known in our midst, learning to appreciate great poetry relationally.
This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women’s autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.
The Good Body
This book examines how nineteenth-century American literature and culture defined “normal” and “abnormal” bodies to justify or critique concerns like slavery, national progress, and the Civil War, shaping the political and social orders of the era.
Tabish Khair
This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair’s unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.
The Medieval Empire in Central Europe
This book offers a political history of the Medieval Empire, from its 10th-century inception to becoming Europe’s strongest power. It traces its support of the papacy, the struggle for supremacy, the shift to Italy, and its demise by the mid-13th century.
The Epistemology of Utopia
Utopianism nurtures possibilities by critiquing and transforming the world. This volume provides critical revisions of the field through essays on topics ranging from Plato’s Republic and More’s Utopia to modern-day cosmopolitics and science.
Belle Vue
On the day he completes his first dream interpretation—a revolution in understanding the human mind—Sigmund Freud is a man torn. He is caught in a love affair with his sister-in-law, Minna, and must choose between his love for her and his quest for fame.
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