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The first comprehensive study of the English-language press published in non-Anglophone countries.

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A scholarly edition of the 1826 text presented alongside the surviving portion of Galt's manuscript.

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The first English translation of Nigaristan: a major work of Persian literature.

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Questions Thomas Moore's association with cultural nationalism by tracing his interest in motion and the transatlantic.

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The first complete scholarly edition of Galt's short fiction and essays on transatlantic themes, including never before published manuscript texts.

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The first book-length account of Woolf's vital, active and strange objects, things and matter.

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An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar.

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This book is a critical biography and literary cultural analysis of Burgess's interactions with the United States of America and American society, using newly discovered documents, archival research and Burgess's entire canon to investigate the profound influence of America on Burgess's life and work.

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This book examines the novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Tom McCarthy and Rachel Cusk to reconsider aesthetic experience as it has been articulated in Western philosophy.

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The first book-length, historical study of invasion-scare and future-war fiction in Britain before and during the First World War in half a century, and the definitive cultural and political history of the genre.

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This book examines the theological questions posed by portrayals of love, sexual violence, and sacrifice in medieval romance. The book argues that these themes are by nature entangled with the discourse of anti-Judaism, which can be turned inwardly to expose irresolution within Christianity itself.

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Long takes advantage of the fifteenth century's intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine the constructions and performances of her maternity in devotional texts. This results in revisionist readings that consider maternity as a literate practice and devotional literacy as a maternal one.

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The eight studies presented here on late medieval religious objects provide new insight into miracle stories, spiritual writings, religious drama, and medieval English poetry.

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This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals-writers, historians, academics, journalists-which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people, and articulate new perspectives on how to belong ethically in a settler colony of the 21st century.

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A wide ranging discussion of emotions in the key historically oriented prose genres of medieval Iceland, explored through a range of case studies.

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This book focuses on alternative forms of knowledge production and speculation in nineteenth century US-American society, and highlights the strategies that minoritarian subjects developed to understand and navigate these complex cultures of knowledge and capital.

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This book explores how medieval and early modern texts use material objects to negotiate temporal otherness. From marvellous artefacts to everyday items, it reveals objects as agents of change, bridging human and material, nature and culture, in ways that anticipate Latour's ideas.

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This book demonstrates the continuity of Roman Catholicism in English Literature in a Biblicist age which established the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer. In a challenging view of inherited literary culture, important figures include William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Queen Henrietta Maria, John Donne, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn.

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"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique

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Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the "Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel" (ssu ta ch'i-shu). Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives, Professor Plaks shows that their fullest recensions represent a sophisticated new genre of Chinese prose fiction arising in the late Ming dynasty, e