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Using a broad range of literature to examine the political culture of white South Africa, Peck finds both a preoccupation with political issues and a dislike for politics.

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This book examines representations of blacks in British literature to illuminate how society viewed blacks during the eighteenth century.

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From 1890 to 1920, the British aristocracy faded in historical importance. This book explores the centrality of aristocracy to late Victorian and early-20th-century literary culture.

Included are discussions of such writers as Marie Corelli, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, H.G.

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The contributors to this collection of essays address children's literature as an art form, rather than an educational instrument, as has been the traditional approach. This strong presentation of international perspectives on children's literature will be a valuable resource for scholars of children's and comparative literature.

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Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction presents an advanced introduction to the work of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, focusing on the concepts of carnival, dialogism, and historicism.

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While other works have looked at Arthurian legend in light of nineteenth-century social conditions, this volume focuses on how these poets approached love and death in their works, and how the legend of Arthur shaped their vision.

An introductory chapter traces Arthurian legend from its inception.

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In the growing field of children's literature theory in criticism, this volume presents critical international perspectives on changes and innovation in this discipline.

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Colonial mores and power systems clashed and combined with indigenous traditions to create postcolonial texts.

This volume treats postcoloniality as a process of cultural and linguistic interplay, in which British culture initially suppressed indigenous cultures and later combined with them after the decline of the British empire.

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This study finds a blending of two frame narrative traditions in the "Canterbury Tales", one that originated in India and the Near-East and the other in ancient Greece. It compares Chaucer's work to a number of pre-Chaucerian frame narratives that influenced his form, as well as contemporary works.

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This volume demonstrates that many scholars and stage directors firmly believe Schiller is very much a writer for the twentieth century.

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Abba Rubin explores the relationship between the history of a minority--the English Jew--and its depiction in literature. Rubin looks at the relationship between the English Jew and his Christian countryman. Subsequent chapters examine the depiction of the Jew in English literature from the Restoration to the 1830s.

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An examination of how Russian literature reflects Russia's history of territorial expansion. It argues that expansion is a form of colonialization, and places Russian literature within the context of postcolonial theory and discourse.

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A comprehensive account of Joyce's years in Trieste, which explores his love/hate relationship with the city, his literary development, Triestine friendships, and his political and religious views.

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Several novels of the 19th century treat adulterous relationships; in doing so, they consider the attitude toward adultery in particular societies. Using the adulteress as an archetypal figure of the realist tradition, this work discusses six novels of adultery from around the world.

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This brilliant study of Verne's three cycles (1850-62, 1862-86, 1886-1916) analyzes the works from a biographical, sociohistorical, ideological, and narratological point of view.

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Joining two seemingly irreconcilable opposites, money and art, this edited collection analyzes the treatment of money in various forms of literature.

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Ross Shideler offers an in-depth introduction to the works of Per Olov Enquist and discusses the writer's central themes and the imagery and motifs he uses to develop them. Other psychological, social, and political themes are examined and analyzed in this first critical study concentrating entirely on Enquist's work.

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Since the 1960s American and Western European gays have set the agenda for sexual liberation and defined its emergence. At the same time, gay and lesbian lifestyles in emerging countries do not always neatly fit Western paradigms, and data from those countries often clash with dominant Western models.

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Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists.

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Author Paul Poplawski seeks to define Lawrence's concept of creativity and explores its use as a central structuring principle of his ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic thought. Viewed in relation to his basic religious beliefs, the concept of creativity provides us with an integrated perspective on his art.

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Adopting the concept of diaspora--literally dispersal, or the scattering of a people--to the historical and contemporary presence of people of Indian subcontinental origin in other areas of the world, Emmanuel Nelson uses this paradigm to analyze Indian expatriate writing.

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Charts the genesis and development of the Robin Hood legend from the Middle Ages through 1700.