Literature & Culture

This volume showcases the explosive expansion of environmental criticism, which is transforming three areas of broad interest in contemporary literary and cultural studies: science, history, and scale. Visiting texts from the medieval period through the twenty-first century, it brings into focus rec..

This volume showcases the explosive expansion of environmental criticism, which is transforming three areas of broad interest in contemporary literary and cultural studies: science, history, and scale. Visiting texts from the medieval period through the twenty-first century, it brings into focus rec..

Evolutions of Jewish Character in British Fiction..

The African continent is home to thousands of cultures, but nearly every one has experienced alteration of its foodways because of slavery, transcontinental trade, and colonization. Food and Foodways in African Narratives: Community, Culture, and Heritage takes a careful look at these alterationsas ..

This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century...

This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century...

The 20th century has witnessed crucial changes in our perceptions of Europe. Two world_x005F_x000D_ wars and many regional conflicts, the end of empires and of the Eastern Bloc, the creation_x005F_x000D_ and expansion of the European Union, and the continuous reshaping of Europe’s population_x005F_x..

Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long-awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field...

Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. It was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing...

This book provides an account of the spatial imagination of landscape and seascape in global literary and cultural contexts, exploring questions of mediation and how various traditions compete for prominence in our spatial imagination. It explores how landscape is at once conceptual and perceptual, ..

_x000D_ This book is a study of the short story, one of the widest taught genres in English literature, from an innovative methodological perspective. Both liminality and the short story are well-researched phenomena, but the combination of both is not frequent. This innovative collection discusses ..

Taking up the phenomenon of bric-à-brac in Victorian culture, this collection advances our understanding of materiality by examining the miscellaneous, moveable and rejected objects often overlooked in the discourses of thing theory. Essays examine writers as different as Lear, Browning, Balzac and..