Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Edinburgh University Press Transscalar Critique
Book SynopsisThe history of the contemporary is a history of crisis ? most centrally, the twinned crises of environmental destruction and anti-Black violence. Transscalar Critique argues that contemporary Black literature navigates this crisis by taking a transscalar approach, understanding crisis as working on multiple scales simultaneously, from the molecular to the geological, from the economic to the aesthetic. As a consequence, this book proposes transscalar critique as a mode of literary criticism. Organized around specific crises and authors, Transscalar Critique argues that crisis offers a window into how competing analytical, artistic, and planetary frameworks collide. In a moment of crisis, questions of race, geology, politics, epistemology, and ontology are brought into focus in surprising and unexpected ways and Transscalar Critique uses the literary, critical, and public policy responses to these events to reveal connections between the human and nonhuman worlds.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Gabriele dAnnunzio and World Literature
Book SynopsisExamines Gabriele D'Annunzio to re-evaluate cultural exchange and the political dimensions of global decadence and modernism
£34.12
Edinburgh University Press Latin American and Arab Literature
Book SynopsisExamines the circulation of literature, routes of comparison and the legacies of transcontinental tiesTrade Review"Latin American and Arab Literature innovatively explores sites of cultural contact, literary intertextualities, and political solidarities across modern Arabic and Latin American literatures. Offering thoughtful close readings of a diverse range of textual genres and transcontinental literary exchanges, Abdel Nasser stages an exciting new model of horizontal south-south comparison." -Hoda El Shakry, University of Chicago
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Latin American and Arab Literature
Book SynopsisExamines the circulation of literature, routes of comparison and the legacies of transcontinental ties
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Artifice of Affect
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£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism
Book SynopsisThis book provides innovative readings of literary works of British Romanticism and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary culture and thought.Trade Review"Mark Sandy has written a ghost story. This is a book in which the influence of British Romanticism on American literature is described in terms of haunting, echo and poetic resonance. Sandy argues that American writers performed a failed and somewhat half-hearted, exorcism. He suggests that they used their Romantic inheritance to fashion an aesthetic of self and nature that appeared to be and wanted to be more independent and existentially charged than that of their British forbears The result, Sandy argues, was something of a double haunting: a confrontation with the spectre of British Romantic writing that manifested as a ghostly self-reflexive feeling of alienation. " -Linda Freedman
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive survey of twentieth-century prison writing from around the world
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press The Midcentury Minor Novel
Book SynopsisRecovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Trans Narrators
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how contemporary trans narrators reshape current understandings of narrative form and gender identity.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction
Book SynopsisWar and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction is a groundbreaking study of Iraqi fiction published after 2003 examining the depiction of marginal experiences of war in Iraqi history.Trade Review"'With Masmoudi's astute analyses of a group of recent fictional works by Iraqi writers, we enter the disastrous worlds of Iraqi men and women trapped in spirals of conflict and desertion, of bravery and cowardice, of homes and camps. If fiction does indeed give insights into nations", then Masmoudi's study provides its readers with a vivid portrait of an Iraq whose recent history amidst its different regions and religious affiliations quite apart from dictatorships and foreign invasions leads us to wonder what its future may hold.'"" -Roger Allen, Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Sex Work in Southeast Asia
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Metaphors We Read By
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press Anexact Form and Modernist Culture
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£106.88
Edinburgh University Press Grammar and TwentiethCentury American Literature
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Artificial Fiction
£76.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Modern British Playwriting The 1980s
Book SynopsisDr Jane Milling is Senior Lecturer in the department of Drama at the University of Exeter, UK. Series editors: Richard Boon, Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Drama and Music, University of Hull, and Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor in the School of English, University of Leeds.Table of ContentsGeneral Preface by series editors Richard Boon and Philip Roberts Acknowledgements Introduction to the 1980s Domestic life Education Culture Media Science, technology and industry Political events Theatre in the 1980s Thinking about the recent past Institutions, policies and funding New writing and playwrights in the 1980s Cultures of protest: issue as subject matter Present pasts Introducing the Playwrights Crafting careers Howard Barker Jim Cartwright Sarah Daniels Timberlake Wertenbaker Playwrights and Plays Howard Barker by Sarah Goldingay Jim Cartwright by David Lane Sarah Daniels by Jane Milling Timberlake Wertenbaker by Sara Freeman Documents Howard Barker: Interview with Jane Milling Jim Cartwright: In His Own Words Sarah Daniels: Interview with Jane Milling Timberlake Wertenbaker: In Her Own Words Afterword Notes Select Bibliography Index Notes on Contributors
£26.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker Critical
Book SynopsisSophie Bush is a writer-researcher specialising in contemporary theatre history and the processes of playmaking. Her doctorate, on the work of Timberlake Wertenbaker, was awarded by the University of Sheffield in 2011. She is a Lecturer in Performance at Sheffield Hallam University, and has previously taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Huddersfield and Manchester Metropolitan. She maintains an involvement with practical theatre-making, as director and devisor.Trade ReviewAccessible and informative, The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker engages in a detailed survey of Wertenbaker's career as a playwright. Bush's approach is rooted in a close, textual analysis of play texts and production contexts, whilst her material is structured by means of a chronological charting of the dramatist's work through to the contemporary moment . . . Three-pronged attention [to Our Country's Good], complemented by Bush's own discussion of this major, widely studied and performed work, augers a wide market for the book from secondary to tertiary levels . . . Overall Bush makes a robust case as to why 'the theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker' deserves our enduring critical interest -- Elaine Aston, Lancaster University, UK * Studies in Theatre and Performance *Detailed and comprehensive. * The Year's Work in English Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: Timberlake Wertenbaker’s floating identities Chapter One: ‘Good enough to go on’: the beginnings of a playwright Chapter Two: ‘They never went on quests’: the gender of identification Chapter Three: ‘To speak in order to be’: on language and identity Chapter Four: Three professional perspectives on Our Country's Good Creating Our Country’s Good: collaborative writing practice and political ideals at the Royal Court in the 1980s by Sarah Sigal Our Country's Good in Melbourne by Roger Hodgman Our Country's Good in the classroom by Debby Turner Chapter Five: ‘The longing to belong’: on cultural genealogies Chapter Six: ‘Landscapes with figures in them’: on pity and tenderness Conclusions Resources Chronology Bibliography Notes on Contributors Notes and References Index
£26.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Letters to my comrades
Book SynopsisZ Pallo Jordan has long been the unapologetic moral guardian of the liberation struggle. His writings are testament to the power of putting pen to paper and speaking the truth with forceful and eminently readable moral conviction. Letters to my Comrades is the ultimate collection of his piercing and yet embraceable thoughts and inquiries.
£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hugo Pasternak Brecht Césaire
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAuthor Ruth Morse listed as one of the week's contributors in the Times Literary Supplement.Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface (Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA and Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge, UK) List of Illustrations Introduction: Writing Against Tyranny (Ruth Morse, Université Paris-Diderot, France) 1. Les Hugo (Ruth Morse, Université Paris-Diderot, France) 2.Indirect Dissidence, Shakespeare, and Pasternak (Ann Pasternak Slater, University of Oxford, UK) 3. Brecht as Great Shakespearean: A Lifelong Connection (David Barnett, University of Sussex, UK) 4. Aimé Césaire, Une Tempête: On Poetry, Legacy and Work (Timothy Mathews, University College London, UK) Notes Select Bibliography Index
£161.50
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Salman Rushdie
Book SynopsisRobert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His previous publications include Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students.Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Kingston University, UK, and Co-Director of the London Graduate School.Trade ReviewRobert Eaglestone and Martin McQuillan’s collection of essays on Rushdie attempts to rethink his work with respect to postcolonialism, postmodernism, and what Eaglestone identifies as the paradoxical in Rushdie’s work. [The book features] a useful chronology and further reading section. * The Year's Work in English Studies *Table of ContentsPreface Kenan Malik \ Series Editors' Preface \ Contributors \ General Introduction Robert Eaglestone and Martin MacQuillan \ 1. Rushdie's Early Fiction and the Rise of Postcolonialism Ellie Byrne \ 2. Revisiting The Satanic Verses: The Fatwa and its Legacies Anshuman Mondal \ 3. Rushdie after 9/11 Martin MacQuillan \ 4. Salman Rushdie and the Post-Colonial Folk and Fairy Tale Andrew Teverson \ 5. Interview: Homi Bhabha with Robert Eaglestone and Martin McQuillan \ 6. Postcolonial Secularism and Literary Form in Salman Rushdie's Fiction Stephen Morton \ 7. The Authentic in Salman Rushdie Robert Eaglestone \ 8. Rushdie Writing and Rewriting the Canon Ankhi Mukerjee \ 9. Rushdie's Non-fiction Daniel O'Gorman \ Further Reading \ Index
£32.36
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Marginality in the Contemporary British Novel 197
Book SynopsisNicola Allen is Lecturer in Contemporary British Fiction at The University of Northampton, UK.Trade Review"Allen focuses on a key critical concept which, as she demonstrates, has in recent years concerned many of those researching fiction, but has largely been addressed without an adequate theoretical and historical account. Allen's timely book redresses these failings, and rejects essentialist readings that neglect the concept's vitality and heterogeneous signification... Allen's study is original both in its analysis and its framing of a complex account of marginality, demonstrating a depth of knowledge of the study of the novel as a genre." (Professor Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK) Mention - Chronicle of Higher Education, December 12, 2008 "Allen's study is, in sum, fine, both in the sense of effectively fulfilling the research tasks it sets itself and in the sense of providing some excellent, thought-provoking statements about the contemporary British novel." (The Review of English Studies, October 2009) 'A cogent and useful study of a fascinating area.' (Modern Language Review, January 2010) Mention in College Literature, Vol. 36.2, Spring 2009 'This comprehensive book, which is the result of a doctoral project, does more than its title promises... At a time when there is an influx of new texts from the margins, Allen's book is a must for those who want to investigate whether these texts are socially transformative or not.' (English Studies)"Table of Contents1. Critical Concepts; 2. The Status of the Marginal in Contemporary British Fiction; 3. The Misfit Protagonist; 4. Personal Histories and Renewed Myths; 5. Satire and the Grotesque; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
£999.99
Pan Macmillan Possessed of a Past A John Banville Reader
Book SynopsisThe material collected here is a treasure trove, a fine retrospective and a comprehensive guide to the work of Ireland's greatest living novelist, John Banville. Selections are drawn from all of his novels, up to and including 2012's Ancient Light; each piece standing alone, short-story-like, but also resonating with those around it and representing the novel from which it comes. There are radio plays, some published in print for the first time here. There is a judicious selection of his essays and reviews. Perhaps most beguiling of all are the pieces of memoir, the early work (including Banville's first-ever piece of published fiction, from 1966) and the chance to see facsimiles of the handwritten first draft of the opening section of The Infinities. Possessed of a Past is an extraordinary document of the writer's life and work across nearly fifty years of practice, simultaneously offering the perfect introduction to Banville's sublime art and manna to devoted readers.Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Preface Section - ii: A Note on the Texts Section - iii: Chronology Unit - Revelations: Fiction 1973-2012 Chapter - 1: Summer at Birchwood (Birchwood, 1973) Chapter - 2: Rheticus (Doctor Copernicus, 1976) Chapter - 3: The Harmony of the Spheres (Kepler, 1981) Chapter - 4: Fern House (The Newton Letter, 1982) Chapter - 5: Gabriel Swan (Mefisto, 1986) Chapter - 6: Possessed of a Past Chapter - 7: I ‘The painting is called’ (The Book of Evidence, 1989) Chapter - 8: II ‘I am always fascinated’ (Ghosts, 1993) Chapter - 9: III ‘When she urged me to beat her’ (Athena, 1995) Chapter - 10: The Golden World (1992) Chapter - 11: Taking Possession (The Untouchable, 1997) Chapter - 12: The Lost Ones Chapter - 13: I ‘The telephone began to shrill, giving me a fright’ (Eclipse, 2000) Chapter - 14: II ‘So this, she saw, was where it would end’ (Shroud, 2002) Chapter - 15: III ‘A charming spot it was Cass chose to die in’ (Eclipse, 2000) Chapter - 16: IV ‘We had a dreadful night’ (Ancient Light, 2012) Chapter - 17: Lady Laura and the Dowager Duchess (Shroud, 2002) Chapter - 18: Only Dying, After All (The Sea, 2005) Chapter - 19: O Lost, Raw World! (The Infinities, 2009) Chapter - 20: Blest Boy (Ancient Light, 2012) Unit - Playing Parts: Stage and Radio Plays, 1994-2006 Chapter - 1: From The Broken Jug (1994) Chapter - 2: Stardust: Three Monologues of the Dead (2002) Chapter - 3: Kepler (2004) Chapter - 4: A World Too Wide (2005) Chapter - 5: Conversation in the Mountains (2006) Unit - A Blest World: Essays, Lectures and Reviews, 1990-2010 Chapter - 1: Survivors of Joyce (1990) Chapter - 2: The Personae of Summer (1993) Chapter - 3: Thou Shalt Not Kill (1997) Chapter - 4: 'Speaks True Who Speaks Shadow’ (2001) Chapter - 5: Fiction and the Dream (2005) Chapter - 6: Beckett’s Last Words (2006) Chapter - 7: Living Ghosts (2010) Unit - Fidgets of Remembrance: Memoir, 1989, 2003 Chapter - 1: Lupins and moth-laden nights in Rosslare (1989) Chapter - 2: 'It was winter the first time I saw Prague' Unit - Firstlings: Early Fiction, 1966-1971 Chapter - 1: The Party (1966) Chapter - 2: Wild Wood (Long Lankin, 1970) Chapter - 3: On Nightspawn (Nightspawn, 1971) Unit - Begettings: In Progress/In Retrospect, 2006/2009 Chapter - 1: 'Of the things we gave them’ (from The Infinities MS, 2006) Chapter - 2: First Light (The Infinities, 2009) Acknowledgements - iv: Acknowledgements Section - v: Sources Section - vi: About the Author
£13.49
Taylor & Francis Ltd Life Writing and Space
Book SynopsisHow does our ability, desire or failure to locate ourselves within space, and with respect to certain places, effect the construction and narration of our identities? Approaching recordings and interpretations of selves, memories and experiences through the lens of theories of space and place, this book brings the recent spatial turn in the Humanities to bear upon the work of life writing. It shows how concepts of subjectivity draw on spatial ideas and metaphors, and how the grounding and uprooting of the self is understood in terms of place. The different chapters investigate ways in which selves are reimagined through relocation and the traversing of spaces and texts. Many are concerned with the politics of space: how racial, social and sexual topographies are navigated in life writing. Some examine how focusing on space, rather than time, impacts upon auto/biographical form. The book blends sustained theoretical reflections with textual analyses and also includes experimental contTrade ReviewStudies into life writing are a growing field of creative-critical inquiry, and Eveline Killian and Hope Wolf have produced a remarkable addition to existing scholarship. Life Writing and Space brings together a mix of established names and up and coming talent who probe the narration of lives through the prism of space. Drawing on work ranging from cultural critics to hardcore (postmodern) theorists and philosophers, this ambitious volume carves out a new territory for scholars and students interested in the intricacies of (auto)biography. Killian and Wolf's Introduction is exemplary: a work of rigorous and original scholarship that sets the bar very high. The individual contributions are varied, yet each in their own way illuminates the spatial aspects of life writing in new ways. Sebastian Groes, University of Roehampton, UKOpening itself to multiple resonances of spatial concepts, Life Writing and Space draws on literary criticism, cultural studies, and critical geographies to show how places and spaces are imagined, produced, and experienced through auto/biographical practices. This richly intertextual study demonstrates the productive potential of framing lives in terms of spatiality and explores different topologies and tropologies of life writing. Eva C. Karpinski, York University, Canada and author of Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, TranslationTable of ContentsThe Spatial Dimensions of Life Writing (Eveline Kilian and Hope Wolf)PART I: RELOCATING AND REIMAGINING THE SELF 1. Multiple Occupancy: Residency and Retrospection in Trollope’s Orley Farm and An Autobiography(Matthew Ingleby)2. Lost Cities and Found Lives: The ‘Geographical Emotions’ of Bryher and Walter Benjamin(Andrew Thacker)3. Hilary Mantel and the Space of Life Writing(Neil Vickers)PART II: TRAVERSING SPACES AND TEXTS 4. Literary Configurations of the Peripatetic(Helga Schwalm)5. ‘The mystery-magic of foreignness’: Mr Isherwood Changes Places (Eveline Kilian)6. Critical Topographies in Depression Era Lives(Martin Klepper and Alexandra Wagner)PART III: CONTESTED SPACES, PRECARIOUS LIVES 7. Postcolonial Literary Cartography: Writing the Self in Contemporary Algeria(Elizabeth H. Jones)8. Inhabiting the In-Between: (Mis)placing Identity in Katherine Mansfield’s Notebooks(Kathrin Tordasi)9. Isaac Rosenberg’s Life in Letters: Between the ‘coil of circumstance’ and a ‘place for poetry’(Anne-Julia Schoen)PART IV: SPACE AND THE FORM OF LIFE WRITING 10. Spaces of Intervention: Hélène Cixous’s Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint(Frédéric Regard)11. Strandlines: Eccentric Stories, Thoroughfare Poetics and the Future of the Archive (Hope Wolf)12. The Columbus of the Near-at-Hand: The Author as Traveller through the Everyday(James Attlee)13. There’s No Space Like Home(Clare Brant)
£137.75
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ReWriting Jesus Christ in 20thCentury Fiction and
Book SynopsisGraham Holderness is Professor of English at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, author or editor of numerous studies in early modern and modern literature and drama, and General Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Critical Survey. He is also a creative writer, novelist and award-winning poet and his previous books include Nine Lives of William Shakespeare (2010).Trade ReviewNo-one interested in the presentation of Christ in modern fiction and film should miss [this book]. * Times Literary Supplement *This book's first part makes an immensely useful contribution to the increasing volume of works covering the interface between theology and film. Taken together with Holderness's own novella, it does demonstrate that it is not only possible but also fruitful to explore the dual nature of Christ in a fictional literary vehicle. * Religion and Theology *Re-writing Jesus is a rare and refreshing example of how rigorous scholarship can inform and strengthen imaginative art. … This is quite a different kind of scholarly work. It is rigorous in attention to texts and sources and historical precedents, but it is also the starting point for a creative encounter with implications for today. Holderness studies in order to be inspired, to be renewed, to find something to share with others. … This would make a great supplemental text within a religion and film or religion and literature class. It is written in a learned but lucid style that undergraduates or seminary students would find accessible. .. Graham Holderness is an encouraging companion in endeavoring to unite what academia repeatedly strives to divide: faith and doubt, the ancient and the contemporary, rigorous analysis and creative response. * Christianity and Literature *Re-Writing Jesus is an unusual, provocative, theologically well-informed, and sensitive study of a Christ ‘without form nor comeliness’, existing for Holderness far beyond the word or image. * Cambridge Quarterly *One of the most balanced and scholarly analyses of Jesus-fictions ever produced. Well-argued and strongly supported, Re-writing Jesus is an invaluable addition to the fields of both Christ studies and popular culture studies. * Journal of Popular Culture *This is in a quite different class of originality and excellence from anything so far written about the fictional transformations of Jesus’ life. Acute analysis of a wide variety of novels, films and plays is combined with a rare sensitivity to the large underlying issues not only about the nature of doctrine but about religious language itself as it works and fails to work and reinvents itself in modern culture. A really stimulating and welcome book. * Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK, and formerly Archbishop of Canterbury *In Holderness' book we encounter, with historical and theological sureness of touch, the Jesus who mysteriously persists in contemporary film and fiction. Beginning with The Da Vinci Code, Holderness takes us back to the nineteenth century, and through the fiction of George Moore, leads us into the theological terrain of the late twentieth century. For readers who have never progressed much beyond Dan Brown, this book will be a fascinating journey into the continuing power of the central figure of the gospels in the culture of our time. * David Jasper, University of Glasgow, UK *Re-writing Jesus shows Jesus to be much more among us than we knew, kicking in the womb and on his cross in so much contemporary film and fiction. But Graham Holderness also demonstrates that such reincarnations are part of a neglected ‘great tradition’ stretching back to Renan’s Vie de Jesus. Holderness takes that tradition more than usually seriously, showing what it can do for theology. He even goes so far as to supplement it himself, in Ecce Homo, his original life of Christ, which is distinctive in really taking on the imaginative challenge of what it would mean to be both divine and human. Lucid, learned, and above all alive, this is a magnetic book. * Ewan Fernie, author of The Demonic: Literature and Experience and editor of Redcrosse: Remaking Religious Poetry for Today's World *Deeply learned and splendidly accessible, Graham Holderness's brilliant book serves as a fair-minded and thoughtful guide on the quest for last century's literary and cinematic Jesus. Here, readers will find a plurality of Jesus - and Christ - figures on display, each one revealing as much, if not more, about the novelist or the auteur as they do about the Nazarene. Re-writing Jesus is a theological tour de force! * Darren J. N. Middleton, Honors Faculty Fellow and Professor of Religion, The John V. Roach Honors College, Texas Christian University, USA *Every generation or so, Jesus must be re-written, re-imaged, and re-heard. Such cultural resurrections always carry with them the possibility of misrecognition, and so we need a guide to point the way. Graham Holderness proves an astute and alert docent as he travels with us on the Road to Emmaus, allowing us to recognize the re-written Jesus in film and novels of the past century. Along the way Holderness reveals the sacred in science, sacrifice in cinema, and ends with a poetically charged Jesus for the twenty-first century. * S. Brent Plate, author of A History of Religion in 5½ Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses, Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Hamilton College, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. 'Half God, Half Man': Nikos Kazantsakis' The Last Temptation and Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ 2. Human and Sacred: Anthony Burgess's Man of Nazareth and Franco Zefirelli's Jesus of Nazareth 3. Science and Religion: Jim Crace's Quarantine 4. Cross and Altar: Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ 5. God or Man?: Mark Dornford-May's Son of Man 6. Ecce Homo: A Life of Christ Bibliography Index
£26.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisBringing together over 70 influential critical articles, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources is a collection of significant academic writing on the work of the great modernist writer, Virginia Woolf. Beginning with the academic rediscovery of Woolf in the mid-1970s, this collection charts the development of Woolf scholarship up to 2015. It comprises examinations of Woolf's fiction and non-fictional writing, important manuscript and archival discoveries and biographical analyses, as well as critical work on Woolf's feminism, aesthetics and cultural writing. Each volume includes a substantial contextualising introduction surveying Woolf studies in the decade covered. Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources is an essential academic resource for scholars and common readers alike.
£593.75
Edinburgh University Press Haptic Modernism
Book SynopsisHow does the body's sense of its own movement shift when confronted with modernist film? How might travel by motorcar disorientate one sufficiently to bring about an existential crisis? This book offers a coherent history of ideas of the haptic, tracing their impact on literary innovation.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Reading the Times
Book SynopsisFrom the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884 to the celebration of the millennium in 2000; from the fiction of Joseph Conrad to the novels of William Gibson and W.G. Sebald, 'Reading the Times' offers fresh insight into modern narrative.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory
Book SynopsisExplores the materialist theories of sexuality, animality, and posthuman life. How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the material world? In what ways has Woolf's modernism affected understandings of materiality, and what new perspectives does she offer contemporary theoretical debates?
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Elizabeth Bishop
Book SynopsisFeatures the 20th century American poet's work. This book explores Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, from her early days at Vassar College to her last great poems in Geography III and the later uncollected poems. It draws on psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory. It connects the poems with their process of composition.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction
Book SynopsisKey Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction r provides an accessible, concise and reliable overview of core critical terminology, key theoretical approaches, and the major genres and sub-genres within popular fiction.
£17.09
Edinburgh University Press Literature of the 1990s
Book SynopsisPlacing literary creativity within a changing cultural and political context that saw the end of Margaret Thatcher and rise of New Labour, this book offers fresh interpretations of mainstream and marginal works from all parts of Britain.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to TwentiethCentury
Book SynopsisThe first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. The volume covers the two World Wars as well as specific conflicts that generated literary and imaginative responses from English and US writers.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisThese 11 newly commissioned essays represent the evolution, or coevolution, of Woolf studies in the early 21st-century.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Sentencing Orlando
Book SynopsisThe present collection of 16 original essays offers fresh perspectives on Orlando through a unique attention to Woolf's sentences.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Transgender and the Literary Imagination
Book SynopsisTransgender and the Literary Imagination' is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing understandings of gender.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press TwentyFirstCentury Popular Fiction
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking collection provides students with a timely and accessible overview of current trends within contemporary popular fiction.
£17.09
Edinburgh University Press Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel
Book SynopsisThrough a robust analysis of several 'new-consciousness' novels by award winning authors the book highlights their unconventional, yet coherent undertakings to foreground the marginal experiences of the Nubian, Amazigh, Bedouin, Coptic, Jewish, women and sexual minority populations in Egypt.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging, comprehensive study, revealing Virginia Woolf's interest in Christianity, its ideas and cultural artefacts
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question
Book SynopsisThis book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Modernism Fiction and Mathematics
Book SynopsisAn analysis of novelistic explorations of modernism in mathematics and its cultural interrelations
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Gender Technology and the New Woman
Book SynopsisThis book examines late 19th-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature
Book SynopsisThis book examines the diverse uses of conspiracy theory in Egyptian fiction since the early twentieth century. Read against the historical and intertextual backgrounds of individual authors and their works, conspiracy theory emerges not as a single, rigid ideology, but as a style of writing that is equal parts literary and political.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Time and Tide
Book SynopsisFirst comprehensive study of the landmark modern feminist magazine, Time and Tide
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature
Book SynopsisSamuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett s major post-1945 works.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Portable Modernisms
Book SynopsisThis book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love
Book SynopsisA new reading of the sexual politics of 1930s leftist prose genres
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Lesbian Modernism
Book SynopsisElizabeth English explores the aesthetic dilemma prompted by the censorship of Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness in 1928. Faced with legal and financial reprisals, women writers were forced to question how they might represent lesbian identity and desire.
£27.54
