Jacob Emery 
Alternative Kinships [PDF ebook] 
Economy and Family in Russian Modernism

This book studies Native American and Chicano/a writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant …

Edmund Spenser famously conceded to his friend Walter Raleigh that his method in The Faerie Queene ‘will seeme displeasaunt’ to those who would ‘rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way …

In dialogue with groundbreaking technologies and scientific models, twentieth century fiction presents readers with a vast mosaic of perspectives on the cosmos. The literary imagination of the world …

Who”s Who in Shakespeare presents a complete and handy guide to the men and women who throng Shakespeare”s plays. It provides: * detailed biographical information on each leading figure * …

Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women is an incendiary attack on the place of women in 18th-century society. Often considered to be the earliest widely-circulated work of fe …

Introducing readers to a new theory of ”responsible reading”, this book presents a range of perspectives on the contemporary relationship between modernism and theory. Emerging from a collaborative …

Co-winner of the Perkins Prize from the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature Has twentieth-century political violence destroyed faith in historical knowledge? What happens to historical fi …

Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV). Her association with figures such as …

Originally published in 1975, much of Western scholarly writing on Japan had in recent years concerned the study of modernisation. The papers in this volume, which were prepared by leading specialist …

This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanisław Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors co …