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Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as i …

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Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would …

Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. By drawing clear c …

‘Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned’As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was …

‘Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned’As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was …

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Virginia Woolf was one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century-a major literary stylist and a lyrical novelist whose stream-of-consciousness approach in iconic books such as …

‘;Literature of the Holocaust’ courses, whether taught in high schools or at universities, necessarily cover texts from a broad range of international contexts. Instructors are required, regardless o …

At the turn of the twentieth century, London was a breeding ground for the avant-garde. Modernist writers like T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound became infatuated with the Orient. Pound in partic …

The Business of Ballet: Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between Profit and the Avant-garde explores how a remarkable, internationally recognized ballet company, the Ballets Russes, was able to survive for …