20th Century Literature

 Focusing on adventure fiction published from 1899 to 1919, Patrick Scott Belk looks at authors such as Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, and John Buchan to explore how writers of popular fiction engaged with foreign markets and readers through periodical publishing. Belk argues that popular f..

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors...

This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and literary representations in post-war Britain, tracing the expression of eugenic ideas across disciplinary boundaries and in both high and low culture and demonstrating its powerful and pervasive influence as a cultural movement...

This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and literary representations in post-war Britain, tracing the expression of eugenic ideas across disciplinary boundaries and in both high and low culture and demonstrating its powerful and pervasive influence as a cultural movement...

Popular English comic novelist. Key themes: Catholicism and decline of the aristocracy. Writings include: Sword of Honour, Brideshead Revisited, Black Mischief. Volume covers the period 1926-1980...

Alison Holland's study focuses on the writer's frequently neglected novels and short stories, including L'Invitée, Les Mandarins, Les Belles Images, and La Femme rompue. Illuminating the density and rich complexity of Beauvoir's style, Holland demonstrates the extent to which Beauvoir's fiction unde..

Positioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism investigates the imaginative potential of travel for women writers, reading women's modernist fiction in tandem with women's travel narratives. Drawing on a range of archival materials, she offer..

This book proposes a new definition of magic realism which acknowledges the importance of disharmony and ambivalence in the combination of realist and supernatural elements. As the first study to consider the entire corpus of Rushdie’s magic realist fiction, it offers fresh insights into his oeuvre...

This title was first published in 28/11/2001: The broad label ’practical philosophy’ brings together such topics as ethics and metaethics as well as philosophy of law, society, art and religion. In practical philosophy, theory of value and action is basic, and woven into our understanding of all pra..

Ezra Pound (1932-63). Writings include: Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII, Homage to Sextus, Prospertius. Volume covers the period 1904-1970. Extras: Includes a selected list of the printing Pound's works from 1908-1960...

Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison, N¿huibhne, Hurston, and Lavin..

Arguing that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic, Jason Marc Harris demonstrates that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature. He uncovers the ideological agendas articulated using folkloric elements in work..