Considers how Joseph Conrad’s works engage with silence
Explores a Cold War concept of technology as a catastrophic influence on modern politics
Explores whether liberal democracies can govern legitimately for the long term
Examines the rich corpus of early medieval Persian mystical literature.
Argues that Victorian literature uses traces of a lingering past to theorise time as non-progressive and discontinuous
Offers the first full-length study of Cicely Saunders' idea of ‘total pain’, providing a fresh perspective on the ambiguous place of narrative in healthcare
Explores the intersection of biopolitics and the animal question, pushing the debate in new directions
Articulates life writing’s complex engagement with the nineteenth-century literary market
The first in-depth study of the essential role Switzerland played in Charles Dickens’s imagination
Offers the first full-length study of Irish female developmental narratives
Presents a sustained and diverse engagement with an under-explored key component of populism: time
Explores queer reading as a disruptive and generative practice