Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

This volume explores the work of authors of literature as well as film, both those who write for children and those who use children as their central characters, who explore the empowering and subversive potentials of children at play...

Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form gives an insight into the relationship between the difficulty of putting traumatic events or experiences into words and the subsequent ethicality of aesthetic forms used to represent trauma. It is an excellent resource for scholars of..

Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form gives an insight into the relationship between the difficulty of putting traumatic events or experiences into words and the subsequent ethicality of aesthetic forms used to represent trauma. It is an excellent resource for scholars of..

A stunning collection of first-class essays examining the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and the fashioning of colonial world-views. Helpful and important reading for students of post-colonial criticism...

Formalism and Marxism examines the relationship between the work of the Russian Formalists and that of such contemporary Marxist critics as Macherey, Eagleton and René Balibar...

Gender for the Warfare State is the first scholarly investigation into the written works of U.S. women combat veterans in twenty-first century wars. Most recent studies quantify military participation, showing how many women participate in armed services and what their experiences are in a tradition..

A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848-1899) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of contemporary scholarship. A central literary figure at the fin de siècle, Allen engaged with a span of literary and cultural concerns in the late-Victori..

Examining works by Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Mayhew, and Charlotte Brontë, Lesa Scholl explores how the language of starvation interacts with narratives of emotional and intellectual want to create a dynamic, evolving notion of hunger...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves...

Latin American Technopoetics: Scientific Explorations in New Media analyzes the ways in which poetry and multimedia installations by six prominent poets and artists engage, and in turn are engaged by, scientific discourses...

Literature and Disability introduces readers to the emerging field of Disability Studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of disability can provide an alternative model for reading literary texts.  It provides students and academics with an accessible over..