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Making home
Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels
By Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlstrom and Maria Holmgren Troy
Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5607-5
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£20.00
Pre-OrderIn and out of Bloomsbury
Biographical essays on twentieth-century writers and artists
By Martin Ferguson Smith
These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5744-7
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£80.00
Pre-OrderThe politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction
By Michael Kalisch
How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5635-8
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Pre-OrderSara Paretsky
Detective fiction as trauma literature
By Cynthia Hamilton
Sara Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. But Paretsky does more than ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5604-4
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Pre-OrderFrantz Fanon, postcolonialism and the ethics of difference
By Azzedine Haddour
Fanon, postcolonialism and the ethics of difference offers a new reading of Fanon's work challenging many of the reconstructions of Fanon in critical and postcolonial theory and in cultural ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5610-5
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Pre-OrderPassing into the present
Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing
By Sinead Moynihan
This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5601-3
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£20.00
Pre-OrderNew slaveries in contemporary British literature and visual arts
The ghost and the camp
By Pietro Deandrea
This book is a study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s. Starting from the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5582-5
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Pre-OrderSleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
Emotions, ethics, dreams
By Megan Leitch
Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5110-0
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£80.00
Pre-OrderCormac McCarthy
A complexity theory of literature
By Lydia R. Cooper
Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy's literary works as a significant case study demonstrating our need to recognise the interrelated ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4858-2
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£80.00
Pre-OrderWorlding the south
Nineteenth-century literary culture and the southern settler colonies
Edited by Sarah Comyn and Porscha Fermanis
This collection brings together for the first time literary studies of British colonies in nineteenth-century Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and the South ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5288-6
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