Penny Fielding & Andrew Taylor 
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s [PDF ebook] 

Science/Fiction Collections offers different views and attitudes toward Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and descriptions of a variety of collections. Written during a time when Science Fiction …

Censorship in Japan has seen many changes over the last 150 years and each successive system of rule has possessed its own censorship laws, regulations, and methods of enforcement. Yet what has remai …

First Published in 2005. In 19th century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurring bogey-man whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the s …

First Published in 1969. Hobbes is universally accorded a prominent place in the history of political thought. His fame is not merely academic: he is well known among all who are interested in politi …

The enduring power of many antebellum American texts trace their inspiration to Puritanism. From Melville“s preposterous but irresponsible quarrels with God to Hawthorne“s instructed yet edgy evoca …

Japan adopted the practice of using year names of ‚Nengoh‘ during 645 A D (the first year of Taikwa). Since then the accession of a new emperor, with the exception of a few, has been marked with a ne …

The Confessions of the Critics shatters a certain silence. Autobiographical criticism has until now skated relatively free from the challenges that usually assail a new literary critical method. It h …

British Chinese Writings: Subjectivity, Identity and Hybridity“ is a study of British Chinese literature. As Dr Hsiao points out, investigation of British Chinese writings is a little studied area; …

Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fiction. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparati …

How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki’s canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make …