Pamela Thurschwell 
Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920 [PDF ebook] 

Focusing on the biographies and autobiographies published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf »s Hogarth Press from 1917-1946, Claire Battershill shows the importance of publishing history in understanding …

This book explores urban life and realities in the cities of the Global South and North. Through literature, film and other forms of media that constitute shared social imaginaries, the essays in the …

Inventing the Popular: Working-Class Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century France explores texts written, published and disseminated by a politically and socially active group of working-class …

While most scholars who study children »s books are pre-occupied with the child characters and adult mediators, Vanessa Joosen re-positions the lens to focus on the under-explored construction of adu …

This volume is a ground-breaking contribution to enlightenment studies and the international and cross-cultural history of print. The result of a five year research project, the volume traces the out …

Reader »s Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critic …

Exploring critical legal issues and cases of the period-from Oscar Wilde »s prosecution for gross indecency to legal bans on such publications as D.H. Lawrence »s Lady Chatterley »s Lover, Radclyffe …

This book actively engages with current discussion of narratology, and unnatural narrative theory in particular. Unsatisfied with the hegemony of European and Anglo-American narrative theory, it call …

Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and myth. …