Andrew Nash & Claire Squires 
Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 7, The Twentieth Century and Beyond [EPUB ebook] 

Employing Salman Rushdie as a guide to a historicized contemporary, this study offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the plurality of cities along his transnational trajectory. It engages with t …

In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism”s first readers often complained t …

In these essays some of today”s leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a b …

First Published in 1977. This book defines popular literature, and traces its development in England from the beginnings of printing to the year 1897, and provides a critical survey of sources availa …

This book analyzes the roots of Irish social and sexual conservatism and the dramatic change in one of the most basic areas of human experience: how we understand our roles as men and women. It looks …

Features a collection of essays that focus on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries. This work investigates how the early explorers” sense of self was de …

What exactly is “modernism”? And how and why has its definition changed over time? Modernism: Evolution of an Idea is the first book to trace the development of the term “modernism” from cultural deb …

Shedding fresh light on Wordsworth”s contested relationship with an England that changed dramatically over the course of his career, James Garrett places the poet”s lifelong attempt to control his …

Examining a wide range of comics and graphic novels – including works by creators such as Will Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco – this book explores how …

This volume defines versions of the transnational in their historical and cultural specificity. By ‘locating, ‘ the contributors contextualize historical and contemporary understandings of the fluid …