Derek Attridge 
Joyce Effects [PDF ebook] 
On Language, Theory, and History

This book examines how debates over copyright law in the United States during the nineteenth century, particularly over the lack of an international copyright law, intersected with the business pract …

‘Terence Cave”s work has made a major contribution to the rethinking of the relationship between literature, history and culture over the last half-century. Retrospectives brings together substantia …

Few centuries have seen greater changes in social perspective and guiding ideas than the eighteenth century; literature in every Western country was a powerful instrument not only in recording these …

First published in 2006. Women and Romanticism’s first two volumes gather material from the vast body of work produced around the subjects of education and employment. VOLUME II covers Education and …

I will tell you a story that will make you believe in God.’ No story can guarantee being able to do this. Yet novelists can tell stories that make us think about what we believe about God and why. De …

Given the increasing number of old people, the proliferation of books about old age is hardly surprising. Most of these come from cultural historians or social scientists and, when those with a liter …

In this significant rereading of Graham Greene”s writing career, Michael Brennan explores the impact of major issues of Catholic faith and doubt on his work, particularly in relation to his portraya …

Hono sapiens, homo pugnans, and so it has been since the beginning of recorded history. In the Middle Ages, especially, armed conflict and the military life were so much a part of the political and c …

In her timely contribution to revisionist approaches in modernist studies, Lorraine Sim offers a reading of Virginia Woolf”s conception of ordinary experience as revealed in her fiction and nonficti …

Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the ”eye” and the ”I” in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vi …