Natalya Lusty & Julian Murphet 
Modernism and Masculinity [PDF ebook] 

‘Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante”s ”second love”; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of …

This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way. Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond the traditional …

What can postcolonialism tell us about international relations? What can international relations tell us about postcolonialism? In recent years, postcolonial perspectives and insights have challenged …

First published in 1987. Often the best known and most memorable passages in Shakespeare”s plays, the soliloquies, also tend to be the focal points in the drama. Twenty-seven soliloquies are examine …

Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries. Wil …

The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory explores relationships between narrative and imperium in the context of Western Modernism by examining the Quest as a vexed trope in Heart of Darkness, Passage to …

D. H. Lawrence wrote in 1914, ”Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depths of my religious experience.” Although he had broken with the Congregational …

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 * analyses …

The Merchant of Modernism examines how the figure of the economic Jew symbolizes the struggle of authors from Dickens to Pound to reconcile their critique of capitalism with their own literary practi …

Walden s Shore explores Thoreau s understanding of the living rock on which life s complexity depends not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson s subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral …