After Satan
In tribute to Neil Forsyth, these essays trace the lineage of the Satan figure through literary history. They chart the demonised other from biblical history and Milton to the contemporary novel, showing how evil functions as a necessary other.
This Landscape’s Fierce Embrace
This book is a tribute to poet Francis Harvey. Admirers celebrate his work in a collection of essays, poems, and art exploring the Donegal landscape. Though critically acclaimed, this is the first book-length critical study of his achievement.
“Curious, if True”
This collection of articles on the fantastic makes connections across genres and historical periods. From magic realism and sci-fi to the Gothic, these essays further the reach of fantasy in the study of English literature and expand perspectives in the field.
The Making of the Modern Artist
This study brings together James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence in their common concern with the modern artist. Examining the fictional artists Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen, it shows how Joyce and Lawrence converge on the character and vision of the modern artist.
This Is Her Century
This book is the first monograph on Margaret Walker, a writer who slipped to the margins of the African American literary canon. It is an attempt to establish the importance of Walker’s representation of twentieth-century America against its critical obscurity.
The Unassuming Sky
For the first time in a collected edition, the work of Timothy Corsellis. The poems tell the striking story of an unusual war poet whose life was cut tragically short: an RAF pilot who refused to bomb civilians, and his literary encounter with Stephen Spender.
Why study Pound and Eliot as Imagists when one left the movement and the other never belonged? To explore their shared premium on precision for opposite ends. Pound plied accuracy to carve distinctions, while Eliot used it to intuit a divine amalgamation.
Empowering Transformations
Alf Prøysen’s classic Mrs Pepperpot stories have received surprisingly little critical attention. This overdue collection of essays by experts explores Prøysen’s heroine through modern theory to deepen the understanding of her enduring popularity.
21st Century China
China is Australia’s ‘life-blood’. Leading academics dissect this complex relationship—from politics and law to Confucianism and ‘green’ cuisine—offering fresh insights for our shared future.
Sold by the Millions
Australian genre fiction writers sell stories by the millions. This is the first collection to explore Australia’s best-selling material, with leading experts providing pieces on Romance, Horror, Crime, Science Fiction, and more.
A Class of Its Own
A Class of Its Own positions American social protest authors in a scholarly, student-centered context. Scholars explore what makes a text “working class” and how class studies empower teachers. Discusses authors like Zora Neale Hurston and Stephen Crane.
This volume explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s connection to Europe, revealing how French culture shaped his achievements. It explains his influence on writers like Proust and Calvino and why he remained an admired model for Europeans.
The X-Files and Literature
This collection explores The X-Files’ rich adaptation of literature to find the truth. It unveils connections to Gothic writers and delves into unexpected sources like the Arthurian quest, making you a smarter, better reader of this landmark series.
Drawing on psychoanalysis, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the contributors examine how the circulation of psychoanalysis across time and place reflects and shapes literature, offering fresh insights into their shared literary history.
A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises
A vibrant snapshot of English Studies today. These essays on literature, film, gender, and media celebrate global culture in a tribute to the inspiring teaching of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente.
Emblems of Adversity
These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats’s poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.
Taking a Hard Look
This volume takes a hard look at the creative intersection of gender and visual culture. It explores how visual culture is gendered and questions debilitating role models, creating a dialogue with international theory from a South perspective.
These essays on Canadian, Australian and New Zealand literatures consider texts and authors within the post-colonial paradigm, focusing on diasporic writing, national consciousness, and prominent authors like Margaret Atwood.
This book tackles cultural transformations across the English-speaking world in literature, painting, architecture, photography and film. It provides readers with tools to decipher these dynamic phenomena and understand the new life they infuse into cultures.
Author of Illusions
Pericles brought about the downfall of the Athenian empire. This truth was obscured by Thucydides, who reinvented the Peloponnesian War to absolve Pericles. This book examines how one man created a myth that has lasted millennia, unquestioned by scholars.
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