Janice M. Allan & Christopher Pittard 
Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes [PDF ebook] 

Winner of the DHLSNA Biennial Award for a Book by a Newly Published Scholar Exploring draft manuscripts, alternative texts and publishers » typescripts, The Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence reveals new …

New insights from cognitive theory and literary ecocriticism have the power to transform our understanding of one of the most important literary genres: the lyric poem. In Cognitive Ecopoetics, Sharo …

Originally published in 1926, this title was edited from a series of lectures the author gave to raise money for her theatre group the Lena Ashwell Players. Through her work as a producer the author …

This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It demonstrates the instrumentalisation of cultural artefacts such …

The story of the American self-made man carries a perennial interest in American literature and cultural studies. This book expands the study of such stories to include the writings of Frederick Doug …

This book provides an introduction to women cartoonists in the US, reading their work from a feminist, literary and stylistic perspective, which shines a light on their innovative and unique narrativ …

What is a detail? How is it different from xijie, its Chinese counterpart? Is ‘reading for the details’ fundamentally different from ‘reading for the plot’? Did xijie xiaoshuo, the Chinese novel of d …

Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to nati …

This book provides a concise and highly readable reassessment of Iris Murdoch »s engagement with philosophy throughout her life and proposes that she was, most importantly, a philosophical novelist. …

Students of literature, film and cultural studies need to understand key theoretical terms and concepts but often find it hard to get to grips with exactly what they mean. This book provides precise …