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Joseph Conrad, Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism
In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man ‘without either country or language’: even his shipboard communities were the...
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Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.
This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the...
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Peter S. Beagle's “The Last Unicorn” A Critical Companion
This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle. Through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn, ...
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The Politics of Literary History Literary Historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland after 1990
This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and...
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Franz Kafkas literarisches Umfeld in Prag 14 Portraits von Oskar Baum bis Franz Werfel
Franz Kafka pflegte zu Lebzeiten intensive gesellige und intellektuelle Kontakte, die teils mit bekannten Namen verbunden, teils nahezu vergessen...
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Bernard Shaw’s and Virginia Woolf’s Interior Authors Censored and Modern
Virginia Woolf and Bernard Shaw may be the odd couple of Twentieth Century modernism. Despite their difference in age (Shaw was twenty-six years...
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Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf Spatiality and Cultural Politics
This book argues that E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf engaged sustainedly with real and imagined places as sites of counter-cultural...
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German-Language Children's and Youth Literature In The Media Network 1900-1945.
With the research of German-language children's and youth literature and its media associations in the period from 1900 to 1945 as well as the...
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Simenon Ermittlungen, Existenzen, Atmosphären
Dieser Band würdigt Simenons lange unterschätztes Romanwerk in vierfacher Hinsicht. In gattungsgeschichtlicher Perspektive arbeitet er die...
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Shelley's Visions of Death
This book provides the first modern, in-depth analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s engagement with the phenomenon of death. It argues that, for...
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Aldous Huxley's Short Fiction
Aldous Huxley’s Short Fictionanalyzes Huxley’s short stories within a modernist context, highlighting that he shared more characteristics with...
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Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800–2022 A Lingering Condition
This book focuses on Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation’s fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests...
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Jack Lindsay Writer, Romantic, Revolutionary
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the work of prolific writer, activist and publisher, Jack Lindsay (1900-1990). It maps the development of...
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Modern Manuscripts and the Pre-History of Digital Humanities Paper Processors
While text processing is often associated with the digital humanities, it is still seen as worlds apart from literary modernism and its aesthetic...
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The Early Post-Suffrage Fiction of Constance Nina Boyle
This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the fiction of Constance Antonina (Nina) Boyle: a suffragette described in one obituary as...
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Jelinek-Handbuch
Das Handbuch umfasst Biografisches, künstlerische Kontexte, das feministische und politische Engagement der Autorin, ihre ästhetischen Strategien und...
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The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World
The Coffee-Table Book in the Post-War Anglophone World argues that coffee-table books appeared and became popular in the post-war era at the...
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The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture
The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Cultureengages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration...
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Coward the Dramatist Morals and Manners
Discussions of Coward’s achievement in the theatre between 1920 and 1966 have tended to stay with the colourful biography. The more analytical...
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Marxismus, Pragmatismus und Postmetaphysik Vom Finden zum Machen
Vom Finden zum Machen bietet die erste ausführliche Diskussion über die Beziehung zwischen Marxismus und Pragmatismus. Diese beiden Philosophien der...
