Steven Belletto 
Beats [PDF ebook] 
A Literary History

Using the example of The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter to explore the impact of new media and technologies on how children learn about stories and reading, this book investigates nearly 100 …

Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction, as recent prominent novels by Socorro Acioli, Julie Berry, Adam Gidwitz, Rachel Hartman, Merrie Haskell, Gene L …

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, ‘The Death of the Author, ‘ argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation beca …

Women »s Experimental Writing considers six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Ka …

Romantic Border Crossings participates in the important movement towards  »otherness » in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties that surround comparative studies of B …

‘If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference, without approaching it on our terms alone?  »Pre-histories » and  »afterlives », methods that have …

The book is an anthology of creative and critical responses to the many partitions of India within and across borders. By widening and reframing the question of partition in the subcontinent from one …

In The  »Rake’s Progress » Part II Marjorie Bowen continues the dramatic saga of the young rake introduced in the first volume, delving deeper into his complex journey through 18th-century London. Th …

Until about 1986, feminists generally considered modernism a reactionary, misogynist, and hegemonic mire not worth investigating. Since then enough studies of modernism have appeared that 17 feminist …

Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe »s most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arous …