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This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's work as a whole. The study establishes the formal, thematic and ideological characteristics of the novels and situates the writer within the general panorama of contemporary British fiction. -- .

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Examines why a woman who was firmly labeled an unbeliever would take up the cause of Judaism and its promise of nationhood and statehood.

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Johann Nikolas Bohl von Faber (1770-1836) was a Hispanist and Germanist at a time when the balance of ideological dominance was shifting from Enlightenment thought towards the new Romantic aesthetic. This book outlines and evaluates his considerable contribution to the development of European Romanticism.

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A comparative reading of Donne's poetry and prose, which eschews questions of personal or religious sincerity in order to recreate an image of John Donne as a man of many performances -- .

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Kirby Gann writes about how John Knowles' A Separate Peace influenced him as an author.

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Students and lecturers in contemporary American literature -- .

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Consideration of Le Fanu within a specific historic and cultural 'moment' demonstrates how contextual re-readings of fiction can completely alter the dominant narrative.

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For all of the scholarship done on postcolonial literatures, little has been applied to Scandinavian writing. Yet, beginning with the onset of tourism beyond Scandinavia in the 1840s, a compelling body of prose works documents Scandinavian attitudes toward foreign countries and further shows how these Scandinavian travelers sought to portray themselves to uncharted cultures.

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A detailed study of the fiction of Julian Barnes from Metroland to Arthur & George. Approachable, student friendly and comprehensive analysis of all Barnes's novels -- .

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This volume is intended both as an introduction for the general reader and as a source for the specialist. It contains a tribute to Jurek Becker specially written for this work by his friend and colleague, Peter Schneider, together with a revealing interview and tabular biographical outline.

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Opening a window into the fascinating and, in many ways, mysterious period in Christopher Isherwood's life, this book collects more than one hundred letters the young author wrote to his mother between 1935 and 1940. Written in extraordinary times, these letters reveal a complex yet wholly recognizable and very close bond between mother and son.

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Kerstin Hensel is one of the most productive young writers in Germany. This volume begins with a story by Hensel, and an interview with the author. Subsequent essays analyse all aspects of her writing, including poetry, plays and prose.

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Focuses on women's crime writing from Spain and offers an approach to Spanish crime fiction, combining literary criticism with sociological and criminological theory. This multidisciplinary study analyses how female authors use crime and detective genres to analyse the role and position of their countrywomen.

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Heinrich von Kleist was born and grew up in the Enlightenment and died in a suicide pact in 1811, aged only thirty-four. He left behind him literary works which are among the most disturbing and amusing of any produced in that revolutionary and romantic period.

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Reveals the important links between medieval studies and Jacques Lacan. This book demonstrates how Lacan's theory of desire is bound to his reading of medieval texts. It alters the relationship between psychoanalysis and medieval studies and illuminates the ways that premodern and post-modern epochs and ideologies share a concern with the subject.

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In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken In

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Chronicling their own travels in Scandinavia, charting the geography of medieval history and fiction, the authors negotiate the complex territory where past and present meet, and where the landscapes of "Beowulf" are brought to life.

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Explores the symbiosis of philosophy and literature in understanding negativity.