Christopher Harvie 
Centre of Things [PDF ebook] 
Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present

This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philo …

First published in 2005. Volumes in the Medieval History and Culture series include studies on individual works and authors of Latin and vernacular literatures, historical personalities and events, t …

Originally published in 1977, Old English and Middle English Poetry provides a historical approach to English poetry. The book examines the conditions out of which poetry grew and argues that the fun …

The dream of humanism is to cleanly discard of humanity’s animal remains along with its ecological embeddings, evolutionary heritages and futures, ontogenies and phylogenies, sexualities and sensuali …

‘This book was crying out to be written.’ The Irish Times ‘Scandalously readable.’ Literary Review James Joyce”s relationship with his homeland was a complicated and often vexed one. The publication …

James Joyce and Nationalism comprehensively revises our understanding of Joyce by re-examining his writing against Irish Nationalism. In this exciting and provocative book, Emer Nolan looks at the re …

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. …

Revenge was an all important part of the ancient Athenian mentality, intruding on all forms of life – even where we might not expect to find it today. Revenge was of prime importance as a means of su …

This three-volume collection focuses on writings by and about cross-dressing women from the early nineteenth century up until the beginning of World War II. In so doing, it provides a new perspective …

Canon Vs. Culture explores the consequences of one of the main educational shifts of the last quarter century– the changes from academic inquiry conducted through a selected list of accepted authori …