Ian Watt 
Essays on Conrad [PDF ebook] 

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 …

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. …

Much like the fantastic marginalia of medieval illuminated manuscripts, medieval and modern hybrid characters-including werewolves, serpent women, and wild men-function as a frame, critiquing the …

Previously considered an avowed nationalist, this book explores how Ian Fleming»s writings and his representational politics contain an implicit resistance to imperial rhetoric. Through an …

Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed …

This multicultural project examines fictional and non-fictional accounts of travel in the Early Republic and antebellum periods. Connecting literary representations of geographic spaces within and ou …

What does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets something or when Hamlet determines to »wipe away all trivial fond records»? How might forgetting be an act to be performed, or be linked …

The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices. Home has myriad meanings, and although t …

Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel adds to the dynamically developing subfield of reception studies within eighteenth-century studies. Lipski shows how secondary visual and literary texts live t …

Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze maps a new intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present, …