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Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story
This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies. In today’s world, there is ample evidence of the return of...
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The Poetry of Clare, Hopkins, Thomas, and Gurney Lyric Individualism
This book attends to four poets – John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney – whose poems are remarkable for their personal...
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New Approaches to the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel
This book discusses the complex ways in which the novel offers a vibrant arena for critically engaging with our contemporary world and scrutinises...
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Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage
This book explores how the humoral womb was evoked, enacted, and embodied on the Shakespearean stage by considering the intersection of performance...
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An Anthology of London in Literature, 1558-1914 'Flower of Cities All'
This book is an anthology of extracts of literary writing (in prose, verse and drama) about London and its diverse inhabitants, taken from the...
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Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England
This book looks at the staging and performance of normality in early modern drama. Analysing conventions and rules, habitual practices, common things...
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Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art
This book examines how contemporary Scottish writers and artists revisit and reclaim nature in the political and aesthetic context of devolved...
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Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination
This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and...
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Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature
This book explores the rise of the aesthetic category of addiction in the nineteenth century, a century that saw the development of an established...
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Shakespeare and Protestant Poetics
This book explores the impact of the sixteenth-century Reformation on the plays of William Shakespeare. Taking three fundamental Protestant concerns...
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Inclusive Young Adult Fiction Authors of Colour in the United Kingdom
This book examines ‘diversity’, or the lack thereof, in young adult fiction (YA) publishing. It focuses on cultural hegemony in the United Kingdom...
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Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
Metaphysics as a Guide to Moralswas Iris Murdoch’s major philosophical testament and a highly original and ambitious attempt to talk about our time....
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Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels
This book is the sequel to Britain Through Muslim Eyesand examines contemporary novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain. It builds...
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Transplant Fictions A Cultural Study of Organ Exchange
Removing an organ from one (typically dead) body and placing it in another living body challenges our most foundational ideas about boundaries...
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Romantic Climates Literature and Science in an Age of Catastrophe
This book seeks to uncover how today’s ideas about climate and catastrophe have been formed by the thinking of Romantic poets, novelists and...
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Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage
This collection of essays considers what constituted contagion in the minds of early moderns in the absence of modern germ theory. In a wide range of...
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British Multicultural Literature and Superdiversity
This book explores contemporary British multicultural multi-genre literature. Considering socio-political and philosophical ideas about British...
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Jane Austen and William Shakespeare A Love Affair in Literature, Film and Performance
This volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The collection...
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Elizabeth Bowen A Literary Life
Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Lifereinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well...
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Ireland’s Imperial Connections, 1775–1947
This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment as a colony by England,...
