W B Yeats 
Essays and Introductions 

Enid Porter spent many years collecting and recording from Cambridgeshire people the folk beliefs and customs held and observed in the country, both past and present. The subjects covered in the book …

Through her formally innovative and psychologically insightful short stories, Katherine Mansfield is increasingly recognised as one of the central figures in early 20th-century modernism. Bringing …

Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault”s groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault”s an …

2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice The connection between speech and writing in human language has been a matter of philosophical debate since antiquity. By plumbing the depths of this complex …

In this ambitious and original study, Lynn Festa examines how and why sentimental fiction became one of the primary ways of representing British and French relations with colonial populations in the …

In the quiet countryside or by the sea – and always very close to London – Sussex has offered a creative space for writers for centuries, from Lord Tennyson to Lee Child. Other writers, like Kate …

This book explores an extraordinary case of affirmative biopolitics through the study of Lu Xun (1881–1936), the most prominent cultural figure of modern China. Diverging from the Enlightenment-human …

This volume looks at the implications of transcultural humanities in South Asia, which is becoming a crucial area of research within literary and cultural studies. The volume also explores vario …

Bringing together a diverse array of new and established scholars and creative writers in the rapidly expanding field of memory studies, this collection creatively delves into the multiple aspects of …

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Drawing on the contributions of scholars working on Italian, Fren …