Literature & Culture

Through individual essays on both literary and political economic writers, this volume defines and analyses the formative moves, both epistemological and representational, which proved foundational to the emergence of political economy as a dominant discourse of modernity._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_..

This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, via an analysis of cases across geographical and historical boundaries. Essays explore the ways in which travel texts represent actual political conditi..

Exploring the meanings early modern people found in dreams, this compelling collection of essays looks at a range of topics, including prophetic dreams, ghosts in political writing and the dreams of animals._x005F_x000D_..

Exploring the meanings early modern people found in dreams, this compelling collection of essays looks at a range of topics, including prophetic dreams, ghosts in political writing and the dreams of animals._x000D_..

The essays in this collection examine the on-going influence of Romanticism in the long nineteenth century on American thinking about education, as depicted in literary texts, in historical accounts of classroom dynamics, or in pedagogical treatises. They also point out that though this influence wa..

This book argues that the satire of the late Elizabethan period goes far beyond generic rhetorical persuasion, but is instead intentionally engaged in a literary mission of transideological "perceptual translation."..

This book opens a dialogue between discourses of security and hospitality in modern and contemporary literature and culture. Essays span domestic spaces and detention camps, the experience of migration and tourism, interpersonal exchanges, and cross-cultural interventions. Demonstrating an interrela..

Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the leading Victorian sensation novelists Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, exploring how disability acts as a major element in the shaping of the sen..

This book investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase the English share of the international slave trade...

South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers on..

This collection of essays, written by a global range of scholars, examines a fascinating array of 'evil children' and the cultural work that they perform, drawing upon sociohistorical, cinematic, and psychological approaches. This book was originally published as two special issues of Literature Int..

This collection of essays, written by a global range of scholars, examines a fascinating array of 'evil children' and the cultural work that they perform, drawing upon sociohistorical, cinematic, and psychological approaches. This book was originally published as two special issues of Literature Int..