Fredric Jameson 
Ancients and the Postmoderns 

Péter Hajdu examines the cultivation of the Classics as an intellectual framework and crucial ingredient of the western aspect of Hungarian national identity. This book approaches the relationship of …

Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial …

What is at stake in Freud s enduring preoccupation with a process supposedly diverting sexuality into cultural activity? In this study, a leading scholar of psychoanalysis and literature re-opens the …

This book presents an exploration of how Golden Age detective fiction encounters educational ideas, particularly those forged by the transformative educational policymaking of the interwar period. …

This book focuses on Rabindranath Tagore as a social and political thinker revolving around Tagore’s ideas on the seeds of civil society, nation, identities, and communities in the Indic tradition. T …

South Asian Pornographies is the first consolidated volume that explores the relationships between pornography, obscenity, law and desire in South Asia. Focusing on case studies from India, Sri Lanka …

The first detailed account of Austen”s characters” reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen”s own rea …

Providing a broad, definitive account of how the ”archival turn” in humanities scholarship has shaped modernist studies, this book also functions as an ongoing ”practitioner”s toolkit” (includin …