Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Kathy Acker
Book SynopsisExplores revolutionary politics in the work of one of America's most important avant-garde writers.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press F. Scott Fitzgeralds Short Fiction
Book SynopsisA revisionist reading of Fitzgerald's short stories through the lens of popular culture of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Contaminations
Book SynopsisCombining theory with literary criticism, the book sheds light on how overlooked aspects of Henry James s, H. Melville s and H. G. Wells s novels question notions of natural order as well as an opposition between the subjective and the objective.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Vagabond Fictions
Book SynopsisFilling in a blank spot in the history of twentieth-century women's writing, Carole Sweeney examines the work of five experimental writers, whose writing has been neglected in accounts of the development of post-1945 British literature.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Modernism Fashion and Interwar Women Writers
Book SynopsisModernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers demonstrates how five female novelists of the interwar period engaged with an emerging fashion discourse that concealed capitalist modernity s economic reliance on mass-manufactured, uniform-looking productions by ostensibly celebrating originality and difference.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Feminism and Womens Short Stories
Book SynopsisThis book offers a wide-ranging survey of contemporary women's short stories and introduces a new way of theorising feminism in the genre through the concept of 'the moment'.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Ezra Pound and the
Book SynopsisShowcases the wide spectrum of Pound's engagement with the arts throughout his career.
£157.50
Edinburgh University Press Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature
Book SynopsisCompelling analyses of the function and representation of Nature in a wide range of Cold War fiction and poetry.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press TwentyFirstCentury Children s Gothic
Book SynopsisThis is the first monograph that brings together the fields of Gothic Studies and children s fiction to analyse a range of popular and literary works for children published since 2000.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Posthuman Space in Samuel Becketts Short Prose
Book SynopsisJonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Posthuman Space in Samuel Becketts Short Prose
Book SynopsisJonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett's presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Marquis De Sade and Continental Philosophy
Book SynopsisReads six interpretations of the Marquis de Sade in French post-war philosophy: Klossowski, Blanchot, Bataille, Lacan, Barthes, and Deleuze to show how he sits at a crossroads of surprisingly disparate branches of western culture, from Tom and Jerry to Kant's moral philosophy.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Beckett Matters
Book SynopsisRepresenting a profound engagement with the work of Samuel Beckett, this volume gathers the very best of Stan Gontarski's Beckett criticism on practical, theoretical and critical levels.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisThis volume' 'examines the cultural importance of the coastline in Britain during a time of vast change.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press British AvantGarde Fiction of the 1960s
Book SynopsisA collection of research-led essays on seminal British avant-garde writing of the 1960s
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press British AvantGarde Fiction of the 1960s
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together a selection of original, research-led essays on more than a dozen avant-garde British writers of the 1960s, revealing this to be a crucial and crucially overlooked period of British literary history.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Joe Brainards Art
Book SynopsisThis collection offers the first place for the importance of Brainard's poetry, collaborations and art to be recognised for their contribution and influence, all in one place.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Afterlives of Georges Perec
Book SynopsisThese 14 essays examine Georges Perec's impact on architecture, art, design, media, electronic communications, computing and the everyday.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Jane Austen Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism
Book SynopsisUsing close readings from 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Mrs Dalloway', 'Emma', 'The Waves', 'Persuasion' and 'The Years', this bookdemonstrates the materialist sensibilities of Austen and Woolf.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Sensing Willa Cather
Book SynopsisA radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Sensing Willa Cather
Book SynopsisA radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvreTrade Review"In his insightful new study, Sensing Willa Cather, Guy Reynolds offers nothing short of a revelatory new way to encounter Cather's work. Her richly nuanced scapes their visual details, their tapestries of sounds and tastes and smells and tactilities are explored here with prodigious care and originality. This marvelous book opens up the entire sensorium of Cather's world both to new readers and those who have read her deeply yet are open to pondering avenues that lead to an even richer understanding of this quintessential American writer." -Bradford Morrow, author of The Prague Sonata and The Forger's Daughter
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Migrating Texts
Book SynopsisProvides nine detailed case studies of translation between and among European and Middle-Eastern languages and between genres.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Modernist Life Histories
Book SynopsisHow do literary forms relate to scientific models? When scientific paradigms shift, do the literary forms adapt? These are the questions motivating 'Modernist Life Histories'.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Reading Experimental Writing
Book SynopsisBringing together internationally leading scholars whose work engages with the continued importance of literary experiment, this book takes up the question of 'reading' in the contemporary climate from culturally and linguistically diverse perspectives.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Samuel Becketts How it is
Book SynopsisThis book maps out the novel's complex network of intertexts, sources and echoes, interprets its highly experimental writing and explains the work's great significance for twentieth-century literature.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Gender Technology and the New Woman
Book SynopsisThis book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Cheap Modernism
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive work in neglected archives, 'Cheap Modernism' will be of interest to all those who want to know how the new literature became a global commercial hit.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic
Book SynopsisA revisionist account of technology?s role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardesExplores of a range of key avant-garde formations in the modernist transatlantic period, from the Italian futurists and English Vorticists to the Dada-surrealist and post-Harlem Renaissance African American experimentalistsExplores writers? and artists? inventions as well as their texts, and involves them directly in the messy transductions of technology in cultureDraws on previously unknown photos, manuscripts and other evidence that reveals the untold story of Bob and Rose Brown?s ?reading machine? ? a cross-disciplinary, meta-formational, and transnational project that proposed to transform the everyday act of readingReading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic provides a new account of aesthetic and technological innovation, from the Machine Age to the Information Age. Drawing on a wealth of archival discoveries, it argues that modernist avant-gardes used technology not only as a means of analysing culture, but as a way of feeding back into it. As well as uncovering a new invention by Mina Loy, the untold story of Bob Brown?s ?reading machine? and the radical technicities of African American experimentalists including Gwendolyn Bennett and Ralph Ellison, the book places avant-gardes at the centre of innovation across a variety of fields. From dazzle camouflage to microfilm, and from rail networks to broadcast systems, White explores how vanguardists harnessed socio-technics to provoke social change.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Modernist Intimacies
Book SynopsisModernist Intimacies traces modern intimacy back to the first decades of the twentieth century, showing that modernism played a crucial role in its emergence.Trade Review"This compelling book demonstrates the pivotal role of modernist aesthetics in the cultivation of modern intimacies. Ranging widely across media, these essays explore intimacy through the affects, forms, and proximate histories that made private life for the moderns a public and deeply political matter. A smart pre-history of the mediated intimacy of the contemporary." -Justus Nieland, Michigan State University
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and
Book SynopsisThis book brings together 11 essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and modernism and provides a general and period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities.
£121.50
Edinburgh University Press The Labour of Laziness in TwentiethCentury
Book SynopsisThis book argues that major twentieth-century American writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and David Foster Wallace provocatively challenge the ethos of productivity by filtering their ethical interventions through culturally stigmatised imagery of laziness.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy
Book SynopsisAidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Aesthetics of Space in NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisCharting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Hydrofictions
Book SynopsisThis book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for the world's water resources, focusing on the urgent context of Israel/Palestine.
£19.94
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.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press On the Margins of Modernism
Book SynopsisXu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). This groundbreaking book re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940swith in-depth analyses of their innovative short stories and novels.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of
Book SynopsisFrom Conrad Aiken to Hugh Jones, this first volume covers correspondents from every period of Mansfield's life.
£190.00
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and
Book SynopsisA collection of original essays exploring the diverse impact of Virginia Woolf's writing on contemporary global literature and culture.
£153.00
Edinburgh University Press The Retrospective Raj
Book SynopsisExplores the 20th century literary revival of Empire and the post-imperial novel through a critical medical humanities lens.Trade Review"This absorbing study of post-war Anglo-Indian historical fiction examines the representation of medicine in its material aspects and metaphorical meanings in a detailed, perceptive reading of a select number of significant novels that implicitly articulate Britain's post-imperial condition. Goodman's timely book is an intelligent contribution to scholarship on post-war fiction, imperial nostalgia and the medical humanities. " -Mariadele Boccardi, University of the West of England
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque
Book SynopsisModernism and the Theatre of the Baroque' fashions an independent aesthetic for modernist writers and texts that challenges many high modernist qualities promoted by James Joyce and T. S. Eliot.
£22.79
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.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Antonia White and ManicDepressive Illness
Book SynopsisBy contextualising White's life-writing and fiction within the contexts of manic-depression and narrative identity, Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness proposes a new model for reading White.
£27.54
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.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Seamus Heaney Virgil and the Good of Poetry
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of Heaney's dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney's major literary exemplars.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Scottish Literature and World War I
Book SynopsisThis book highlights the variety of literary, social, political and philosophical reverberations of the war in Scotland writing.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Scottish Literature and World War I
Book SynopsisThis book highlights the variety of literary, social, political and philosophical reverberations of the war in Scotland writing.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press The Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver
Book SynopsisThe Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver examines the cultural legacy of one of America's most renowned short story writers.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver
Book SynopsisThe Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver examines the cultural legacy of one of America's most renowned short story writers.
£19.94
