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Writing and Reality outlines the ways in which such work as a whole challenges the dominant cultural values of contemporary Britain.

The book begins by considering the context of this writing and proceeds to examine the textual strategies that distinguish the diary novel.

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One of D.H. Lawrence's main concerns was to explore new ways of writing about the body. This volume considers some of the social, cultural and ideological contexts of Lawrence's writings about the body and engages closely with his texts from a range of pertinent theoretical positions.

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Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship studies young adult (YA) fiction that analyzes corporate sponsorship of media literacy practices in and through YA fiction. It shows how YA novels model for young people ways to manage the various media tools that surround them.

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While scholars have begun to study popular women's novels of the 19th century, there has been relatively little attention paid to popular women's fiction of the early 20th century.

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Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century England, minor novelists produced a staggering number of volumes that shaped styles, formed attitudes, and gave to the novel a new status and respectability. These novels were read by both sexes, but the majority were written by women. Vineta Colby examines the

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The "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed as a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and literature students at school, college and university. It aims to give readers informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years.

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A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding of her writing and its legacies via twenty six alphabetically arranged and interlinked essays covering her published work and private writings

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Conducts the first genealogy of the philosophy of the anexact in twentieth century culture, introducing the concept as a means of understanding modernist avant-garde art and literature in the long mid-century (c. 19221972).

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Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also instruments for creative activity, entertainment, and innovative education and public safety.

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From the Baillie Gifford and Orwell Prize longlisted author of The Ministry of Truth, a revealing exploration of one of the central concerns of our times: fantasies and nightmares of the end of the world, from Mary Shelleys The Last Man to the Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go

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Develops a literary-philosophical account of 'conversation' that reframes core concerns in contemporary ethics, democratic politics, and literary criticism

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Explores literary representations of American girlhood between 19902020.

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Examines the political and aesthetic gestures embedded in bandes dessinees and graphic novels in order to question the past and the contemporary realities of the French-speaking world.

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The first study of creative and cultural afterlives of Gullivers Travels produced over the past 3 centuries that covers work in the form of illustrated books, comics, graphic novels, films, animations, poetry, plays and pantomimes and much more.

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Interprets Hemingway's fiction through the philosophical lens of Giorgio Agamben

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Examines the use of Islamic referents and themes in literary writings by European authors.

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Argues that J. M. Coetzee's works constitute a form of late modernism that situates life at the heart of questions concerning the politics and ethics of literature

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The Research Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell.

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A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London

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Examines a range of literary responses to images drawn from the transatlantic slave trade and its aftermath

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A fully annotated edition of Mona Caird's immensely successful novel, The Daughters of Danaus, that reframes the novel as a narrative of female professionalisation.