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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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The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism
This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors’...
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The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern
The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fernargues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position...
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Animals and Science Fiction
Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies....
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Gottfried Keller – Spielräume der Phantasie
Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge zeigen Keller als einzigartigen Erzähler, richten den Blick auf Texte aus dem Nachlass, gehen seinen Träumen...
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Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy
This book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates...
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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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William Blake's Visions Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia
This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions...
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Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec Ways of Belonging
This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary...
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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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Zeitlichkeitskonzepte von Latenz als Gender-Figurationen der Romantik (Bettine von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Karoline von Günderrode)
„Doch alles ist ganz anders nun geworden“. Dieses Zitat aus Günderrodes romantischem Gedicht „Vorzeit, und neue Zeit“ spiegelt die Veränderungen der...
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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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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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Economic Informality and World Literature
This book analyses the impact of economic informality on the novel form across the modern world-system, looking specifically at works by Antonio de...
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German-Language Nature Writing from Eighteenth Century to the Present Controversies, Positions, Perspectives
This volume examines the topic of German-language nature writing in a broad historical context spanning more than two centuries. It brings together...
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William Blake's Manuscripts Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests
This collection of essays examines how close analysis of William Blake’s manuscripts can yield new discoveries about his techniques, his working...
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Chinese Science Fiction Concepts, Forms, and Histories
This volume brings together emerging approaches and addresses shifting paradigms in Chinese science fiction studies, offering a window on fan...
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Das Recht der Fiktion Zu den Lizenzen und juristischen Implikationen fiktionalen Schreibens
Verrechtlichungsprozesse von Literatur stellen als Kollisionsfall von Kunstfreiheit und allgemeinem Persönlichkeitsrecht nicht nur für die...
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Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods
Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoodsexplores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the...
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Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives
Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narrativesexamines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction—specifically addressing...
