Peter Boxall 
Prosthetic Imagination [PDF ebook] 
A History of the Novel as Artificial Life

Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America, Segregated Miscegenation questions received notions of race and nation. Carlos Hiraldo examines the current unde …

The Confessions of the Critics shatters a certain silence. Autobiographical criticism has until now skated relatively free from the challenges that usually assail a new literary critical method. It h …

Containing wide-ranging reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume presents a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the …

Arguing that the consecrated body in the Eucharist is one of the central metaphors structuring The Divine Comedy, this book is the first comprehensive exploration of the theme of transubstantiation a …

This study provides an authoritative overview of all Marlowe”s work. It includes thorough investigations of his major plays, Tamburlaine, Edward II, The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus as well as a …

This study reveals Greene in a dual role as author, one who projects literary experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and its ‘literary’ interpretation into his …

For more than a decade literary criticism has been thought to be in a post-theory age. Despite this, the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze and Foucault and new writers such as Agamben and Ran …

This collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis examines the novels of his mature period: American Psycho (1991), Glamorama (1999), and Lunar Park (2005). Taking as its …

Henry James”s ghost story novella, The Turn of the Screw (1898) is a key gothic text and is one of the most popular James texts for undergraduate study. This is the ideal guide to the text, setting …

Everyone knows something of nineteenth-century France – or do they? ‘Les Miserables’, ‘The Lady of the Camelias’ and ‘The Three Musketeers’, ‘Balzac’ and ‘Jules Verne’ live in the popular consciousne …