Byrne James P. Byrne & O’Sullivan Michael O’Sullivan 
Affecting Irishness [PDF ebook] 
Negotiating Cultural Identity Within and Beyond the Nation

Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant sta …

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 …

A vogue for travel ’stunts’ flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s: playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise and overland travel that collectively appear to be a response to …

First published in 1969, provides a helpful introduction to the study of Absurdist writing and drama in the first half of the twentieth century. After discussing a variety of definitions of the Absur …

‘The nineteenth century realist author was a contradictory figure. He was the focus of literary criticism, but obscured his creative role by insisting on presenting his works as ”copies” of reality …

Bahriye Kemal”s ground-breaking new work serves as the first study of the literatures of Cyprus from a postcolonial and partition perspective. Her book explores Anglophone, Hellenophone and Turkopho …

Lorca in English examines the evolution of translations of Federico García Lorca into English as a case of rewriting and manipulation through politically and ideologically motivated translation. As n …

This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American …

"Rathfelder’s Hotel" by Annie E. Bosworth is a novel set in a hotel and is aimed primarily at a children’s and family audience. The book blends elements of domestic life and social dynamics …

"Public School Education" by Michael Mueller is a critical examination of the public education system in 19th-century America from a Catholic perspective. Mueller argues that the secular na …