Ludwig Tieck 
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This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory. It looks at seminal works in the ‘moments of their making’ and delineates the different threads that bind postcolon …

150 years after Alice”s Adventures in Wonderland was first published, Lewis Carroll”s eponymous heroine has become one of the most familiar figures in the cultural landscape. The enduringly iconic …

James Joyce and Classical Modernism contends that the classical world animated Joyce”s defiant, innovative creativity and cannot be separated from what is now recognized as his modernist aesthetic. …

This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so …

Hemingway has been labeled a ‘communist sympathizer, ’ ‘elitist’, and a ‘rugged individualist.’ This volume embraces the complexity of political advocacy in Hemingway’s novels and short stories. Hemi …

Reading groups have grown rapidly in popularity and continue to be a significant cultural phenomenon. Reading groups in public libraries, linked to the learning and social inclusion agenda, have …

Romantic Border Crossings participates in the important movement towards ”otherness” in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties that surround comparative studies of …

In his attitude toward religion, George Orwell has been characterised in various terms: as an agnostic, humanist, secular saint or even Christian atheist. Drawing on the full range of his public and …

This book addresses the idea of ”civility” as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian …

The paperback edition, in four volumes, of this standard work will make it readily available to students. The scope of the work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with …