First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.
Emerging at a moment of escalating colonial conflict between England and Ireland, the figure of the Irish Celt enjoyed a long and varied career in both English and Irish literature from the late Victorian era to World War II. While this figure assumes many forms and functions, T. J....(Read More)
Joan Didion
(February 2021)
Substance and Style Kathleen M. Vandenberg - Author
Medicine Is War
(February 2021)
The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture Lorenzo Servitje - Author
Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked.
The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist practices, and to read their work as Buddhist literature. Its distinctive contribution is its focus on modern literature ...(Read More)
The Play of Light
(February 2021)
Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, and Friends Ann Smock - Author
Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.
Featuring essays by American, Indian, and British scholars, this collection offers critical appraisals and personal reflections on the life and work of the transnational poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001). Though sometimes identified as an “Indian writer in English,” Shahid came to designate himself as a Kashmiri-American ...(Read More)
Beyond Gold and Diamonds
(January 2021)
Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel Melissa Free - Author
The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.
Beyond Gold and Diamonds demonstrates the importance of southern Africa to British literature from the 1880s to the 1920s, from the rise of the systematic exploitation of the region’s mineral wealth to the aftermath of World War I. It focuses on fiction by the colonial-born Ol...(Read More)
