The 10 newly commissioned essays and introduction collected in this volume demonstrate Jean Rhys’s centrality to modernism and to postcolonial literature alike by addressing her stories and novels from the 1920s and 1930s.
Contrasting ‘mathematical fictions’ from and about the heyday of mathematical modernism, this book relates literary engagements with mathematical modernism to the wider context of modernist critiques of Enlightenment values and postmodern reassessments of modernist patterns.
This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century.
Modernism Edited: Marianne Moore and the Dial Magazine makes visible Moore’s contribution to the production of modernism even as it complicates the concept of editorial agency.
In line with the recent surge of critical interest in early psychology, the contributors of this volume read Mansfield’s work alongside figures like William James and Henri Bergson, opening up new perspectives on affect in her work.
This book argues that war-making with Israel has driven Hezbollah’s socialisation in Lebanon and the region, transforming the Islamist movement from a loose organization into one of the world’s most powerful and sophisticated armed political movements.
This book investigates work of the NGO Tostan as a working model of human development. The study is grounded in the ethnographic study of the actual change that happened in one West African village.
Drawing on memoirs, testimonies, autobiographical novels, poetic autobiography, journals, and diaries, Nasser examines solitude and national struggles in contemporary Arab autobiography.
This volume presents essays that engage with many aspects of Mansfield’s response to all things Russian as well as to the Russians she met in England and France. In... Læs mere
Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers demonstrates how five female novelists of the interwar period engaged with an emerging fashion discourse that... Læs mere
This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory – philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.
Chronicles volumes the variety of performance in film noir, defined by the dialectic between dynamic star images and the demands of individual roles.