Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
The Other Empire: British Romantic Writings about the Ottoman Empire
1st Edition
By Filiz Swenson
June 09, 2014
This book contributes to the body of postcolonial scholarship that explores the growth of imperial culture in the Romantic and early Victorian periods by focusing on the literary uses of the figure of the Turk and the Ottoman Empire. Filiz Turham analyzes Turkish Tales, novels, and travelogues from...
The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama: Icon of Opposition
1st Edition
By Kristen Deiter
June 09, 2014
The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays, 1579-c.1634, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. While Elizabeth I, James I, and ...
An Ethics of Becoming: Configurations of Feminine Subjectivity in Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot
1st Edition
By Sonjeong Cho
January 30, 2014
In attempting to conceptualize feminine subjectivity beyond the familiar paradigm of dualism and within the parameters of ethics, this study examines the political and intellectual identity of contemporary poststructuralist feminism and its profound resonance with the nineteenth-century British ...
Allegories of Violence: Tracing the Writings of War in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction
1st Edition
By Lidia Yuknavitch
January 16, 2014
Allegories of Violence demilitarizes the concept of war and asks what would happen if we understood war as discursive via late 20th Century novels of war....
Making of the Victorian Novelist: Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market
1st Edition
By Bradley Deane
January 16, 2014
This book examines a sequence of crises in nineteenth-century print culture and offers an original narrative of what it meant to be a Victorian novelist. Easily dismissed at the beginning of the century as hacks who pandered to the ignorant or indolent, novelists by the end of Victoria's reign ...
Border Modernism
1st Edition
By Christopher Schedler
January 14, 2014
Reorienting the field of American literary modernism, Christopher Schedler defines an intercultural form of representation termed border modernism that challenges the aesthetic hegemony of metropolitan (high) modernism. In this study, Schedler compares the works of European and Anglo-American ...
Ethical Diversions: The Post-Holocaust Narratives of Pynchon, Abish, DeLillo, and Spiegelman
1st Edition
By Katalin Orban
January 14, 2014
First Published in 2005. This study focuses on a group of related texts which have struggled to rescue, rather than eliminate, the paradox of answering the original question: Why ethics rather than nothing?...
Poetic Gesture: Myth, Wallace Stevens, and the Desirous Motions of Poetic Language
1st Edition
By Kristine S. Santilli
January 14, 2014
This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language, attempting to move beyond some of the obstacles and boundaries of contemporary critical approaches. By providing a phenomenological context, and through a theoretical contemplation of certain myths as embodiments of ...
Protest and the Body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston
1st Edition
By Thomas McGlamery
January 14, 2014
This book analyzes the work of Herman Melville, John Dos Passos, and Zora Neale Hurston alongside biographical materials and discourses on the body. Thomas McGlamery views each of these authors' literary output as an effort to "work through" the political meanings associated with the body, ...
Racial Blasphemies: Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature
1st Edition
By Michael L. Cobb
January 14, 2014
Racial Blasphemies, using critical race theory and literary analysis, charts the tense, frustrated religious language that saturates much twentieth-century American literature. Michael Cobb argues that we should consider religious language as a special kind of language - a language of curse words -...
The Self Wired: Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Narrative
1st Edition
By Lisa Yaszek
January 14, 2014
First Published in 2002. Advanced technologies challenge conventional understandings of the human subject by transforming the body into a conduit between external forces and the internal psyche. This title discusses the intense controversy about how to best understand and represent human ...
Love American Style: Divorce and the American Novel, 1881-1976
1st Edition
By Kimberly Freeman
December 11, 2013
A popular subject in sociology and cultural studies, divorce has until recently been overlooked by literary critics. Spanning nearly a century during which the divorce rate skyrocketed, Love American Style traces the treatment of divorce in the American novel. This book draws upon popular, ...