Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
The Ethics of Exile: Colonialism in the Fictions of Charles Brockden Brown and J.M. Coetzee
1st Edition
By Timothy Strode
August 21, 2013
The book investigates the problem of how narrative, normally conceived of temporally, encodes its relation to space, especially the territorial space that is the subject of colonial possession and dispossession. The book approaches this problem by, first, providing a theoretical framework derived ...
The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory from Conrad to Greene
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By Julia Rawa
August 21, 2013
The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory explores relationships between narrative and imperium in the context of Western Modernism by examining the Quest as a vexed trope in Heart of Darkness, Passage to India, The Sheltering Sky, and The Quiet American. The book takes stock of twentieth century theory...
Negotiating the Modern: Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World
1st Edition
By Amit Ray
May 14, 2013
This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral, ...
Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature
1st Edition
By Laurel Plapp
May 14, 2013
Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a ...
Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor: A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa and America
1st Edition
By Patsy J. Daniels
May 03, 2013
This book examines works from twelve authors from colonized cultures who write in English: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong Kinston, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Alic Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The book fins...
Masculinity and the English Working Class: Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction
1st Edition
By Ying Lee
March 21, 2013
This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes...
Literature and Development in North Africa: The Modernizing Mission
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By Perri Giovannucci
November 14, 2012
The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of the East. The practices of development have mostly led not to economic, social, and political progressivism in local ...
The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance: Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell
1st Edition
By Mary Hricko
October 10, 2012
This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell. The relationship of these four writers demonstrates a continuity of thought between the two renaissance periods. By noting...
The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel: The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization
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By Stephen M. Levin
August 30, 2012
The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel explores the themes of alienation and displacement in a genre of post-World War II novels that portrays the pursuit of an authentic travel experience in a culturally unfamiliar place. Levin explores two questions: why does travel to an "undiscovered" ...
Gendered Pathologies: The Female Body and Biomedical Discourse in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel
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By Sondra Archimedes
July 27, 2012
Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England. According to medical and scientific views of the period, the woman who did not conform to the dictates of ...
Between Profits and Primitivism: Shaping White Middle-Class Masculinity in the U.S., 1880-1917
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By Athena Devlin
June 21, 2012
Between 1800 and the First World War, white middle-class men were depicted various forms of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores cultural writings dedicated to the physical and mental health of the male subject, showing that men have mobilized gender constructions repeatedly and ...
Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen
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By Alissa G. Karl
May 09, 2012
Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between...