Andrew Dix & Dr Brian Jarvis 
The Contemporary American Novel in Context [PDF ebook] 

First Published in 2005. Distinctly interdisciplinary, Kingship, Conquest, andPatria brings together French and Welsh studies with literary and historical analysis, genre study with questions of medi …

This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using th …

This book examines Thomas Hardy”s representations of the road and the ways the archaeological and historical record of roads inform his work. Through an analysis of the uneven and often competing ro …

Annabel Patterson tackles the hottest topic in literary studies today – `the Great Books debate – providing a superbly formulated moderate stance between the Western canon”s radical oppponents and i …

The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, pastiche, merciless satire and gender reversal. Immensel …

The religious associations surrounding the Bible make it difficult for the general reader to appreciate, in its full purity, the value which the Scriptures bear as literature, and as an epic in no wa …

In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by placing the great Russian novelists – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol – …

In this book, first published in 1987, Wolfgang Mieder follows the intriguing trail of some of the best known pieces of folk literature, tracing them from their roots to modern uses in advertising, j …

Eliza Haywood was one of the most popular and versatile writers of the eighteenth century. The two novellas in this edition – The Rash Resolve (1724) and Life’s Progress (1748) – show her developing …

British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work offers an account of British literary responses to work from the 1950s to the onset of the financial crisis of 2008/9. Roberto del Valle Alcalá argues th …