Jon Mee & Matthew Sangster 
Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900 

Stories can inspire love, anger, fear and nostalgia – but what is going on in our brains when this happens? And how do our minds conjure up worlds and characters from the words we read on the page? …

The first book to deal with the subject of Ezra Pound”s relationships with Japanese literature as a whole, this book provides a wealth of new scholarship on this subject, including on the …

Language has a primary importance in Jungian psychology and its practice. C. G. Jung saw every act of speech as a psychic event. Even the ‘worker’ words in language, like prepositions or conjunctions …

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 …