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Decolonization and the Struggle for National Liberation in India (1909–1971)
At the end of the First World War, the Raj remained economically or even strategically more central than ever in the general colonial architecture of the British Empire. Yet, …
Identity, Violence and Resilience in 21st Century Black British and American Women's Fiction
In this volume, scholars analyze contemporary Black British and American women’s fiction that tackles issues of violence and its representations. The book gives readers a wide …
Lust’s Dominion; or, the Lascivious Queen / El dominio de la lujuria, o, la reina lasciva (ca. 1598-1600), by/de Thomas Dekker, John Marston, John Day, William Haughton
This scholarly edition of Thomas Dekker, John Marston, John Day, and William Haughton’s Lust’s Dominion; or, the Lascivious Queen (ca. 1598-1600) is the first in half a century and …
Textuality as Striptease: The Discourses of Intimacy in David Lodge's Changing Places and Small World
The book analyses how David Lodge's Changing Places and Small World relate to the sphere of the intimate in the decades in which they were written, published and read. The analysis …
Strangers in Early Modern English Texts
This book explores the textual and semiotic construction of early modern English identities. To this end, the contributors – scholars from various European universities – address a …
Rethinking Postmodern Subjectivity
What is postmodern literary subjectivity? How to talk about it without falling in the trap of negative hyper-essentialism or being seduced by exuberant lit speak? One way out of …
Teaching Cosmopolitanism through Transnational Literature in English
The book deals with the question how students in multicultural EFL-classrooms can be prepared for their role as world citizens. The author shows that teaching English offers …
Poetics of Identity: Mina Loy Voicing the Fluid Female Body
Examining closely the intersection of Continental theories of difference and a predominantly American ethic of diversity, the book uses phenomenology and interdisciplinary study to …
Property Law in Renaissance Literature
Intuition of an Infinite Obligation
Grounded in theoretical studies of postmodern and narrative ethics, this book proposes the need for a re-examination of E. L. Doctorow’s work from an ethical perspective. Through …
Charles Reade, George Meredith and Harriet Martineau as Serial Writers of «Once a Week » (1859-1865)
The book is about three primary serial contributors to Once a Week during the critical period when it was featured as the rival magazine of Dickens’s All the Year Round. Divergent …
Otherness in the Novels of Patrick White
The central argument of the thesis, the representation and reception of otherness, is followed throughout White’s novels with the support of a complex critical instrumentarium made …