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Reginald H. Blyth Haiku (1949–52)
Reginald Horace Blyth was born in Ilford, Essex, England in 1898 to a father who worked for the Great Eastern Railway. Reginald grew up as the only...
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Introduction: Relating Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction: Crossing Borders
The celebrated Canadian author Carol Shields (1935–2003) is most famous for her ten novels, and justly so, but admirers of her fiction may not be...
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Animal Satire: An Introduction
During a frenetic week in early July 2022, after many months of self-inflicted political difficulty and amidst astonishing scenes in which more than...
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No Country for Old Maids? Housing Ivy Compton-Burnett’s Mid-Century Fiction
This chapter examines the challenges and pleasures of reading the unsentimental and stubbornly strange post-1945 fiction of Ivy Compton-Burnett....
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Irish-American Immigrant Histories and Readings of Exile in the Writing of Maeve Brennan
This chapter is interested in how Maeve Brennan—one of Irish America’s most important and recently recovered literary voices—takes up the cause of...
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The Victorian Baby of Popular Fiction
This chapter explores babyhood as a distinct, if still loosely defined, part of childhood in nineteenth-century fiction. The Victorian baby emerged...
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Creating Comic Community: Scathing Epithets, Caricature, and Comic Violence
This chapter provides a closer look at Parton’s comic style, examining her caustic portraits of types and the way that her penchant for epithets...
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Writing Africa Under the Cold War: Arrested Decolonisation and Geopolitical Integration
In a 2000 interview, novelist Ahmadou Kourouma notes the correspondence between the dawning of the Cold War and the development of independence...
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Transnational Literature and the Monolingual Paradigm Around 1800: Friederike Brun and Jens Baggesen
Anna Lena Sandberg’s chapter examines two authors who can be seen as ‘border crossing’ figures, situated between national literatures, cultures, and...
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[Sic] Beasts
Three fragments of literary history.
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Overview
The Chinese literature originated in the age of myths and legends. However, due to its long history, it is difficult to determine its true origin. It...
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Bulgakov, Moscow, and The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, unfinished at his death in 1940, and having undergone a mass of revisions from its first writing in 1928–1929,...
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The Dialectic of History and the Revocation of Modernity
In his essay on the narrator, Walter Benjamin notes, “The fairy tale, which is still the first counselor of children because it was once the first of...
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One Law for the Lion and the Ox is Oppression: The Emergence of Universal Law
In texts of the late 1780s and early 1790s, Blake expresses abhorrence for universalising legal doctrine through his repeated connection of ‘one law...
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‘Light and Bright and Sparkling’ – Pride and Prejudice and Fairy Tales
This chapter addresses a central question of the monograph – why Pride and Prejudice? Why does this novel, far in excess of Austen’s other novels,...
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Orientalism
Rooted in earlier European interactions with and attitudes toward the East – including the Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid empires, as well as China and...
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Alternative Facts, Alternative Genres: Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach
This chapter argues that contemporary writers of literary fiction have turned to genre in the decades-long lead-up to the Trump presidency and...
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“The Glory that was Greece and the Grandeur that was Rome”: Edgar Allan Poe and the Classical World
A cursory glance at Poe's writings illustrates the part played by the classical world in his writing. He spoke of Helen, Diana, Pallas Athena, Monos...
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Literary Forms During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War and the establishment of the Chinese United Front against Japanese Aggression, the realistic pattern and...
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The Anonymous Nun of Barking
The Nun lived at Barking Abbey during the late twelfth century. Benedictine nuns were highly educated; many were from the aristocracy. The Abbey’s...