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Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture, exploring by a close reading of the texts and the artistic works the

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Repetition is constitutive of human life. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. This book investigates the significance of different forms of repetition in literature, culture, and society through studies of the function and importance of an array of repetitive phenomenon.

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This diverse collection of essays analyzes popular culture textsincluding novel, films, and television showsthat demonstrate a variety of attitudes in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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Representing Kink raises awareness about nonnormative texts and erotic practices and desires through engagement with marginalized texts, practices, and ways of reading. It offers kinky readings of canonical texts, science fiction fanzines, fan fiction, self-published novels, and erotica (fan-made, self-published, and traditionally published).

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An examination of the narrative strategies used by such authors as Pushkin, Zhukova, Tolstoy, Herzen and Dostoevsky to represent young, dependent female characters. Drawing on the theories of Bakhtin, the work analyzes the degree to which women are presented as subjects who think and perceive.

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This book examines how Hawthornes notebooks provide a key for understanding the environmental elements of his fiction writing. Hawthornes four major romances are the main focus of study, but his short fiction and nonfiction also show a man convinced that human and nonhuman nature are inextricably intertwined.

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A collection of essays that discuss the assumptions, ideas, and practices that constituted the intimate lives of men and women in the ancient Mediterranean world. It also demonstrates the importance of the "History of Sexuality" for fields as diverse as Greco-Roman antiquity, women's history, cultural studies, philosophy, and modern sexuality.

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This text studies the role of marriage in the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft. It establishes the influence of those narratives on the fiction of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown and Martin Delany, and re-examines assumptions about slave narratives.

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A study that introduces, conceptualises, and examines the American Adam and American Psycho paradigms while focussing on the inter-relations between the two figures. Using the American Adam as a paradigm of masculine identity formation, it examines the American Psycho as Adam's 'real' condition of existence.

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John Grisham is one of the most prolific and beloved mystery writers today, still reaching the top of the bestseller lists with books like The Testament (1999) and King of Torts (2003).

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This book is an account of the ways the promise and threat of political revolution has informed historical novels from Walter Scott to the near present. Building upon of the Marxist scholarly tradition of Georg Lukacs and Frederic Jameson, this book emphasizes the transformation of literary conventions to adapt to changing historical contexts.

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An ambitious and wide-ranging study of the Irish gay novel, not merely in relation to a broader Irish political and historical narrative, but also a global one of increasing neoliberal domination legitimated by liberal social politics.

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An ambitious and wide-ranging study of the Irish gay novel, not merely in relation to a broader Irish political and historical narrative, but also a global one of increasing neoliberal domination legitimated by liberal social politics.