Roemer Ken Roemer 
Obsolete Necessity [PDF ebook] 
America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900

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. …

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 …

Biblical Limits is a new series which brings to the traditional field of Biblical Studies literary criticism, anthropology and gender-based approaches, thus reaching new ways of understanding Biblica …

Thomas Hardy »s ‘The Dynasts’ and Leo Tolstoy »s ‘War & Peace’ are both works which defy attempts to assign them to a particular genre but might seem to have little else in common apart from being …

An excellent account of, and reflection on, each diverse stage of American literary giant Philip Roth »s fifty-year career, this book also looks outwards, touching on other aspects of intellectual …

This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary …

Author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem is one of the most celebrated and significant American writers working today. This new scholarly study draws on a deep …

Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in li …

Focusing on the culturally and historically rich Siraiki-speaking region, often tagged as ‘South Punjab’, this book discusses the ways in which Siraiki creative writers have transformed into politica …

"The Sorcery Club" by way of Elliott O’Donnell is a chilling story that delves into the supernatural and the macabre. The narrative unfolds in London, wherein the protagonist, Dr. Silence, …