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Barthold Heinrich Brockes and Nature Writing
Historical studies in search of nature writing in German literature occasionally mention the Early Enlightenment poet Barthold Heinrich Brockes, who...
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Systems Theory Reflections on the Relationship Between Literature and Society: With a Case Study on Elio Vittorini
This article centers on an analysis of Elio Vittorini’s novel Le donne di Messina (1949, 1964). The novel recounts a new beginning in a country...
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Poems for the Women of Beowulf: A ‘Contemporary Medieval’ Project
This article is centred upon seven new poems from my poetry project inspired by the women of Beowulf . To contextualise the project, the poems are...
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Tradition and Invention in the Songs and Sonets and Sermons of John Donne
This chapter describes the convergence of secular poetics and biblical hermeneutics in the writings of John Donne. Discussion of Thomas Carew’s elegy...
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From World Capital to National Capital: Literary Periodicals and the Construction of Modern Rome
In the period that followed Italian unification, the city of Rome underwent a complex transformation of its cultural and political identity as it...
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The Eco-Hero in Malaysian Novels: From Solitary Figures to Group Solidarity
This chapter is informed by Tim (Poland, Western American Literature 26:195–208, 1991) concept of the “eco-hero”, who “seeks and nurtures diversity...
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Embodied Interdependencies of Health and Travel in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles
As embodiment plays a central role in Victorian novels exploring women’s journeys, the interdependence of health and travel comes expressly to light...
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Pregnancy Self-Help Literature as Disembodiment: An Issue of Reproductive Justice
Reproductive justice contextualizes an individual’s ability to control their reproductive destiny within the conditions of their lives, including how...
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Kontrollierte Literatur
This article turns to the relationship between style and gesture in the German-language pop novel. While unsuccessful gestures are often seen as...
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Joseph Conrad and Terrorism Today
This book explores how the anarchist fiction of Joseph Conrad can help us understand terrorism today. Conrad undermines the popular view that...
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Von der Autonomie zur Beziehung
Contemporary literature aims to be in touch with the world. It is oriented towards the future and the transformation of society, and has renounced...
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Marxist Literary Criticism in the Hi-Tech Era
With historical materialistic view of science and technology as the first productive force, the revolutionary influence of technology on literature...
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Coleridge’s Poetic Dispensation
This chapter proceeds roughly chronologically through several of Coleridge’s minor works of the 1790s, reading them in light of the reactionary...
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Alienated Girlhood in Works by Christabel Coleridge
Like her more famous mentor Charlotte Yonge, Christabel Coleridge (1843–1921), granddaughter of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and author of more than...
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The Lower Limits of Literary Translation Circulation
This study investigates a hybrid case of majority and minority publishing. A very limited number of publishers operates in the small territory...
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Introduction: Legal Reason and the Ordeal of Romantic Reading
The Introduction presents an overview of the argument and considers the two contested terms that comprise the book title: “Romanticism” and “The Rule...
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Et Cetera Photobooks? Reflections on Conceptual Documentary Photography as Visual Enumeration
Using three photobooks by Ricardo Cases, Allison Stewart, and Stephen Gill, I explore the question of whether visual lists can exist. I investigate...
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Dividing Between Daughters
Shakespeare writes against the grain of his sources, showing Lear’s daughters in a more sympathetic light. This chapter explores the medical, legal,...
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Surrogacy or Sale: Reflecting upon Reproductive Justice Through The House for Hidden Mothers and A House of Happy Mothers
Feminists have deplored surrogacy as the supreme form of medicalization, consumerism, and technological colonization of the female womb. From the...
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Doubling Down on the Politics of Fear, Opening Up the Politics of Hope
The convergence of postcritique and Terrorism Studies underwrites new readings of Joseph Conrad’s political fiction. Correcting popular conceptions,...