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Exile as a Continuum in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction
Joseph Conrad is famous for being an unusual, strange, and even eccentric English writer. However, despite his difference, English criticism has primarily interpreted his fiction …
Valencian Folktales
Enric Valor is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. This selection of his highly popular rondalles (folk tales) will for the first time introduce his …
Life-Writing, Genre and Criticism in the Texts of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland
Sylvia Townsend Warner has increasingly become recognized as a significant and distinctive talent amongst twentieth-century authors. This volume explores her remarkable …
On the Avenue of the Mystery
This volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945–65) in conjunction with the films made from them during a later period of a little less than three …
Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender
Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender presents fresh insight into the gender issues and sexual ambiguities that have always been present in Hemingway’s work, utilising a …
Authors and Art Movements of the Twentieth Century
This book explores the great influence of twentieth-century artists and art movements on many major writers of the twentieth century. It focuses in particular on four seminal …
Literary Criticism, Culture and the Subject of 'English': F.R. Leavis and T.S. Eliot
This volume considers the highly convoluted relationship between F. R. Leavis and T. S. Eliot, comparing their ideas in literary and cultural criticism, and connecting it to the …
Uncertainty and Undecidability in Twentieth-Century Literature and Literary Theory
Undecidability is a fundamental quality of literature and constitutive of what renders some works appealing and engaging across time and in different contexts. This book explores …
Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels
Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History argues historical novels can help readers receive the burdens of history—meaning both the …
Modernism and Modernity in British Women’s Magazines
This book explores responses to the strangeness and pleasures of modernism and modernity in four commercial British women’s magazines of the interwar period. Through extensive …
Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture
Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture addresses the interesting revival of Henry James’s works in Anglo-American film adaptations and contemporary fiction from the …
Modernist Literature and European Identity
Modernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It shifts the focus …