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This book focuses on seven celebrity performers working between the mid 1880s and 1910. Maud Allan, Jane Avril, Loie Fuller, Sylvia Grey, Yvette Guilbert, Letty Lind and Cissie Loftus achieved international fame, whilst simultaneously creating new and innovative performances on the popular stage. -- .

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FfugLen is the Welsh word for fiction but is also a play on the words 'ffug' (meaning fake or false) and 'len' (the prepositive of 'llenyddiaeth' or literature) implying that these images are often ambiguous. This title presents a study of the image of Wales and the Welsh in twentieth-century Welsh-language literature.

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The development of a modern' form of scientific enquiry occurred in the late Middle Ages and under the umbrella of Christianity, but Leupin argues that the desire to quantify and find empirical bases for things goes back much earlier than Galileo and Copernicus.

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The collection of fourteen essays provides a survey of major writers of fiction from Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa.

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Fictions of India explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power in the work of selected writers dealing with India. It examines the imperial context in which the writers operate and suggests how historical and ideological assumptions and anxieties may be read into the texts they produce.

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Financial Gothic offers three main critical perspectives: that finance can and should be understood as a gothic phenomenon; that contemporary American finance is a product the slave trade; and that American gothic monsters symbolise both the financial market and enslavement.

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The essays in Folk Horror: New Global Pathways explore the cultural and political significance of the darker and more violent manifestations of folkloric stories, from Britain to Ukraine and Italy, and from Thailand to Mexico and the Appalachian US.

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The Shakespearean era's wet writers guide our eco-way today

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The essays in this collection explore the intersection between literary and material forms of writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history. -- .

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"This monograph presents a new history of early American literature that traces the diverse forms of fiction circulating in the early United States (1789-1861) and how they shaped the way Americans thought and argued about political and cultural issues of their age"--

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Offers translations of Chekhov's major plays and one-acts along with an introduction focused on the plays' power to elicit the widely divergent of responses, the life of the playwright in its historical and aesthetic contexts, suggestions for reading the plays 'under a microscope', and notes designed to bring Chekhov's world into focus.

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Offers translations of Chekhov's major plays and one-acts along with an introduction focused on the plays' power to elicit the widely divergent of responses, the life of the playwright in its historical and aesthetic contexts, suggestions for reading the plays 'under a microscope', and notes designed to bring Chekhov's world into focus.

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A large and important collection by one of Eastern Europe's major contemporary poets.

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This book updates oppressive metaphors of Puerto Rico as a big family in the prose of Afro-Puerto Rican authors Mayra Santos-Febres, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro and Yvonne Denis-Rosario. The new metaphor is a diverse, trans-national fractal family.

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Some of the most significant in modern intellectual and cultural history pass by way of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1818). This title includes essays by Elisabeth Bronfen, Crosbie Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Louis James, Michael Fried, Michael Grant, Jasia Reichardt, Robert Olorenshaw and Jean-Louis Schefer.

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A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare's plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political -- .

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