Paul Allain & Vera Gottlieb 
Cambridge Companion to Chekhov [PDF ebook] 

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on ”European Shakespeares”, proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare”s literary craft was not just nativ …

Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all …

Arjun Appadurai’s 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers and philosophers saw and understood the key topic …

Demonstrating and defending a method of close reading and historical contextualisation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, this collection of essays by Tom Mc Alindon combines a number of previous …

‘References to clothing in the nineteenth-century naturalist novel have traditionally been read merely as examples of descriptive detail. Thompson, in her groundbreaking study on Zola, rescues clothi …

In this landmark book, leading international scholars from North America, Europe and the UK offer a sustained critical attention to the concept of silence in Joyce”s writing. Examining Joyce”s majo …

In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women”s Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue turn …

This guide to Victorian Literature and Culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1837-1900, including: – the historical, cultural and intellectual backg …

This book evaluates Carl Van Vechten”s contribution to the Harlem Renaissance by presenting hitherto unexamined documentary evidence. The author draws on correspondence, manuscripts, personal memora …

Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. E …