Literature

150 years after Alice”s Adventures in Wonderland was first published, Lewis Carroll”s eponymous heroine has become one of the most familiar figures in the cultural landscape. The enduringly iconic …

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most celebrated and influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He was awarded in 1928 the Nobel prize for literature for his philosophical work, and h …

James Joyce and Classical Modernism contends that the classical world animated Joyce”s defiant, innovative creativity and cannot be separated from what is now recognized as his modernist aesthetic. …

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading …

Caroline Alphin presents an original exploration of biopolitics by examining it through the lens of cyberpunk science fiction. Comprised of five chapters, Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fictio …

With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwar …

The Novel in Russia examines the Russian sensibility as it is revealed in prose fiction, the dominant mode of Russian literature. It explores how, in the work of Pushkin, Lermontov and Gogol, …

Introducing readers to a new theory of ”responsible reading”, this book presents a range of perspectives on the contemporary relationship between modernism and theory. Emerging from a collaborative …

Theoretically informed scholarship on early modern English utopian literature has largely focused on Marxist interpretation of these texts in an attempt to characterize them as proto- Marxist. The pr …

A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing …