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"Analyses the relationship between literary prizes, politics and the reception of literature in Spanish America"--

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Follows "The Pilgrim's Progress" as it circulates through multiple contexts - and into some 200 languages - focusing on Africa, where 80 of the translations occurred. This book accounts for how "The Pilgrim's Progress" traveled abroad with the Protestant mission movement, and was adapted and reworked by the societies into which it traveled.

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A study of the confluences between liberal white Americans trauma, their reverting to hyper-conservative Islamophobia, and Don DeLillos call to American authors that they compose a new so-called Great American Novel pluriverse in the wake of 9/11.

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"Surveys the evolution of the Commander-in-Chief within the American imagination, studying the President as a figure that has long shaped-and been shaped by-literary movements"--

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"Surveys the evolution of the Commander-in-Chief within the American imagination, studying the President as a figure that has long shaped-and been shaped by-literary movements"--

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J G Ballard self-professedly 'devoured' the work of Sigmund Freud as a teenager, and entertained early thoughts of becoming a psychiatrist. This title investigates Ballard's engagement with psychology and the psychological in his fiction, tracing the influence of key figures including Freud, C G Jung and R D Laing.

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These entries discuss his characters, his overt and veiled references to historical and Renaissance figures and events, his literary and philosophical allusions, his major themes, and the key events and influences that shaped his career.

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Meredith's reputation as an "unreadable" novelist prompted Judith Wilt to examine the relationship between author and reader in Meredith's fiction--a relationship that was combative and teacherly and, she contends, a central aspect of his art. Meredith was concerned with "readable people," by whom he meant his readers (as he imagined them and as th

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In a new interpretation of the fiction of Anthony Trollope, Coral Lansbury argues that Trollope's work in the Post Office, starting in 1834, had more influence on his fiction than did any literary figure or tradition. Drawing on her original research in Post Office Records, she reveals the ways in which legal forms and legal reasoning shape both th

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The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British and Irish writers in Europe cannot be assessed without reference to their 'European' fortunes. This collection of essays records how D H Lawrence's work has been received, translated and interpreted in most European countries with remarkable, though greatly varying, success.

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Leading international scholars survey the reception of Eliot's work throughout Europe, including film and television adaptations.

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This book offers pioneering insights into Wells's contribution to 20th century European literature and to modern political ideas, including the idea of European union.

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Henry James, the American-born writer who chose to live in Europe, occupies a major position as a dedicated artist and cultural historian. This collection of essays examines the ways in which James was translated, published and reviewed on the Continent of Europe, notably in France, Italy and Germany.

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Joyce is widely considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. This collection of essays prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, records the ways in which James Joyce's work has been received, translated and published in different areas of Europe.

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A volume of international research that provides an account of Jane Austen's reception across the length and breadth of Europe, from Russia and Finland in the North to Italy and Spain in the South.

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