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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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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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The Chinese May Fourth Generation and the Irish Literary Revival: Writers and Fighters
This book examines how the early twentieth-century Irish Renaissance (Irish Literary Revival) inspired the Chinese Renaissance (the May Fourth...
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Beckett’s Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of Modernism
Samuel Beckett’s work is littered with ironic self-reflexive comments on presumed audience expectations that it should ultimately make explicable...
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Charlotte Mary Yonge Writing the Victorian Age
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the life and work of Charlotte M. Yonge, a highly influential and popular nineteenth-century...
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The Language of Siegfried Sassoon
This book presents a cognitive stylistic analysis of the writing of Siegfried Sassoon, a First World War poet who has typically been perceived as a...
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Publicity and the Early Modern Stage People Made Public
What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this...
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British Sociability in the European Enlightenment Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters
This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental...
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John Galsworthy’s Compassion All Beings Great and Small
This book discusses John Galsworthy’s compassion for people and animals, in his fiction, non-fiction and drama. Initial chapters explore compassion...
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Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s
This book examines how the medical profession engaged with print and literary culture to shape its identities between the 1830s and 1910s in Britain...
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Cultural Convergence The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1960
Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first...
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Reading the Early Modern English Diary
Reading the Early Modern Diarytraces the historical genealogy, formal characteristics, and shifting cultural uses of the early modern English diary....
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The Tramp in British Literature, 1850—1950
Shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize 2022, The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 offers a unique account of the emergence of a...
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New Approaches to William Godwin Forms, Fears, Futures
This collection showcases work on William Godwin (1756-1836) foregrounding new critical approaches and uncovering new texts. Godwin is a familiar...
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Narratives of Addiction Savage Usury
Narratives of Addiction: Savage Usuryis the first book to argue, in the face of more than a century’s received wisdom, that drug addiction and...
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Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction
Burial Plots in British Detective Fictionoffers an overview of the ways in which the past is brought back to the surface and influences the present...
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Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare’s Genres
This book explores how Shakespeare uses images of dreams and sleep to define his dramatic worlds. Surveying Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies,...
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The Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
This book offers a new interpretation of the place of periodicals in nineteenth-century Ireland. Case studies of representative titles as well as...
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The Rise of Victorian Caricature
This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the...
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Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland
This book is the first to examine life writing and disability in the context of Irish culture. It will be valuable to readers interested in...
