This book uncovers startling contributions to transatlantic culture and makes the argument that literature is dependent upon other modes of professional creativity in order to thrive.
This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism.
Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary crises.
A new theory of aesthetics in which artworks have a death-drive of their own.
Examines the Spiritualist movement's role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thought
Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes's textual corpus. The five chapters of this book reconsider modernist intertextuality,... Læs mere
In 8 original chapters, leading literary critics and writers discuss the social, historical and personal dimensions of Paterson’s poetry and prose.
Dale Shuger presents, from the records of the Spanish Inquisition, a social corpus of early modern madness that differs radically from the 'literary' madness hitherto studied by Cervantes critics.
Meghan Marie Hammond shows how five exemplary writers (Henry James, Dorothy Richardson, Katherine Mansfield, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf) tackle the so-called ‘problem of other minds’ in ways that reflect and enrich early twentieth-century discourses of fellow feeling.
A fascinating and unique perspective on wartime France by one of America’s great novelists
Examines the impact of the royal politics of amnesia on tragedy and national historiography in France, 1560-1630
Brings Henry Miller back to the critical attention that his work deserves as well as making an original contribution to literary discussion on intertextuality.