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Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital records …

Putting forward a new theory of fetishism – alternative fetishism – this book provides an up-to-date examination of the work of Jeanette Winterson, offering fresh perspectives and new insights on the …

Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting for the interplay of the material and the cultural. This volume investigates …

Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology of ‘good wives, wise mothers’ in support of male …

Fat bodies of today are commonly assumed to have no future at all. In this line of thinking, a fat life is framed as failure, and a fast track towards death itself. Meanwhile, the histories of modern …

As the first study to examine the concept of uncertainty of meaning as it relates to modern and contemporary literature and literary theory, Literary Theories of Uncertainty demonstrates how this …

Queer Democracy undertakes an interdisciplinary critical investigation of the centuries-old metaphor of society as a body, drawing on queer and transgender accounts of embodiment as a constructive re …

The essays included in Mary Hays’s ‘Female Biography’: Collective Biography as Enlightenment Feminism emerge from the authors’ collaboration in producing the first modern edition of Hays’s work in th …

The first book-length scholarly examination of the four critically formative years of Byron”s public school experience, 1801-1805 How did Byron become ‘Byron’? In Lord Byron at Harrow School: Spea …

Winner of the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize given by the International Conference on Romanticism This original study explores the new idea of theory that emerged in the wake of the French Revolution …