Literature
Featured Books
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Samuel Beckett and the Arts
Italian Negotiations
Edited by Davide Crosara, Mario Martino
The volume examines the relationship between Samuel Beckett and Italian culture from an intermedial perspective.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839989667
March 2023
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The volume examines the relationship between Samuel Beckett and Italian culture from an intermedial perspective.
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Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel
Fiona J. Doloughan
This monograph treats modes of fictionality in contemporary auto/biography, memoir and autofiction. Adopting a case study approach, it demonstrates the extent to which contexts of production and reception are important in framing generic expectations with respect to the representation of lived experience and in helping to determine the status of the narrator as (fictional) persona or (implied) author.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983375
February 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This monograph treats modes of fictionality in contemporary auto/biography, memoir and autofiction. Adopting a case study approach, it demonstrates the extent to which contexts of production and reception are important in framing generic expectations with respect to the representation of lived experience and in helping to determine the status of the narrator as (fictional) persona or (implied) author.
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Analysing American Advice Books for Single Mothers Raising Sons
Essentialism, Culture and Guilt
Berit Åström
This intersectional study analyses the normative pressures placed on single mothers raising sons in contemporary parenting literature and how traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity are used to undermine the mothers. The study further connects the advice books to a cultural backlash against ideas of ‘involved fatherhood’ and ‘caring masculinity’.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278884
February 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This intersectional study analyses the normative pressures placed on single mothers raising sons in contemporary parenting literature and how traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity are used to undermine the mothers. The study further connects the advice books to a cultural backlash against ideas of ‘involved fatherhood’ and ‘caring masculinity’.
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Brazil and the Transnational Human Rights Movement, 1964-1985
Anna Grimaldi
Brazil and the Transnational Human Rights Movement, 1964–1985 is about how Brazilians and European solidarity networks collaborated to resist dictatorship in Brazil and contribute to a more expansive definition of human rights.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985508
February 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00Brazil and the Transnational Human Rights Movement, 1964–1985 is about how Brazilians and European solidarity networks collaborated to resist dictatorship in Brazil and contribute to a more expansive definition of human rights.
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V. S. Naipaul of Trinidad
Nivedita Misra
The book collects material from local critics, newspapers and interviews to present V. S. Naipaul in new light as a “true blue” Trinidadian writer. The book foregrounds Naipaul’s deep connections not only with the land of his birth but with its literary and historical heritage and its peoples.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839989193
January 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00The book collects material from local critics, newspapers and interviews to present V. S. Naipaul in new light as a “true blue” Trinidadian writer. The book foregrounds Naipaul’s deep connections not only with the land of his birth but with its literary and historical heritage and its peoples.
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Gothic Travel through Haunted Landscapes
Climates of Fear
Lucie Armitt, Scott Brewster
This book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations with fear, unknown landscapes, environmental change, surveillance, and the foreign.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980213
December 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations with fear, unknown landscapes, environmental change, surveillance, and the foreign.
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Joycean Possibilities: A Margot Norris Legacy
Edited by Joseph Valente, Vicki Mahaffey, Kezia Whiting
Inspired by the work of Margot Norris, this volume takes up her theme of how James Joyce’s works open up a host of new possibilities: for interpretation, for stylistic “iridescence,” for narrative, for other possible worlds, and for gender equality.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981005
December 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00Inspired by the work of Margot Norris, this volume takes up her theme of how James Joyce’s works open up a host of new possibilities: for interpretation, for stylistic “iridescence,” for narrative, for other possible worlds, and for gender equality.
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Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction
The World is a Welter
Margarida Cadima
One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988431
November 2022
Active
£110.00 / $110.00One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.
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Swedish Gothic
Landscapes of Untamed Nature
Yvonne Leffler
The monograph gives an overview of the development and characteristic features of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839980336
November 2022
Active
£24.95 / $24.95The monograph gives an overview of the development and characteristic features of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today.
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Gulf Gothic
Mexico, the U.S. South and La Llorona’s Undead Voices
Dolores Flores-Silva, Keith Cartwright
Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839980367
November 2022
Active
£24.95 / $24.95Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas.
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Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry
Stephen Guy-Bray
This book looks at how Renaissance poets ended their poetic lines. It considers a range of strategies and argues that line endings are crucial to our understanding of the poems.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279096
October 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book looks at how Renaissance poets ended their poetic lines. It considers a range of strategies and argues that line endings are crucial to our understanding of the poems.
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Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors”
A Psycho-Semiotic Analysis
Arthur Asa Berger
Arthur Asa Berger’s Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors uses semiotics along with a psychoanalytic approach to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most interesting comedies.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839984983
September 2022
Active
£24.95 / $24.95Arthur Asa Berger’s Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors uses semiotics along with a psychoanalytic approach to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most interesting comedies.
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Absolute Freedom: An Interdisciplinary Study
Paul Gordon
A re-evaluation of the notion of “positive” (versus merely “negative”) freedom.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985171
September 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00A re-evaluation of the notion of “positive” (versus merely “negative”) freedom.
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Classical Edinburgh
A City Divided
Alan H Balfour
This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland with a focus on Edinburgh.
First Hill Books
Hardback
9781839987892
September 2022
Active
£39.95 / $39.95This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland with a focus on Edinburgh.
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Neurocomputational Poetics
How the Brain Processes Verbal Art
Arthur Jacobs
This book introduces a new thrilling field– neuro computational poetics, the scientific ‘marriage’ between cognitive poetics, data science and neuroscience – that aims at uncovering the secrets of verbal art reception.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987700
July 2022
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This book introduces a new thrilling field– neuro computational poetics, the scientific ‘marriage’ between cognitive poetics, data science and neuroscience – that aims at uncovering the secrets of verbal art reception.
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The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947)
The Paladins of France in America
Jo Ann Cavallo
This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo’s scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987649
July 2022
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo’s scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.
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Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback
Andrew Nette
This book explores the history of Horwitz Publications, one of Australia’s largest post-war pulp publishers. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been recognised, particularly in the expansion of the paperback that took place from the late 1950s onwards.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982453
July 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book explores the history of Horwitz Publications, one of Australia’s largest post-war pulp publishers. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been recognised, particularly in the expansion of the paperback that took place from the late 1950s onwards.
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Reading to Stay Alive
Tolstoy, Hopkins and the Dilemma of Existence
Christopher Dowrick
This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278914
July 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive.
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Consumerism and Prestige
The Materiality of Literature in the Modern Age
Edited by Anthony Enns, Bernhard Metz
This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of taste by examining how the material aspects of literary texts, such as the cover, binding, typography, and paper stock, reflect or even determine their cultural status.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982767
July 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of taste by examining how the material aspects of literary texts, such as the cover, binding, typography, and paper stock, reflect or even determine their cultural status.
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A Theory of Thrills, Sublime and Epiphany in Literature
Nigel Fabb
A psychological explanation of goosebumps and tears, of the epiphanic experience of seeing something ordinary in a profoundly new way, and of the overwhelming perception of the sublime. These experiences found in life and literature involve a feeling of coming to know something deeply important but impossible to describe.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984792
July 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00A psychological explanation of goosebumps and tears, of the epiphanic experience of seeing something ordinary in a profoundly new way, and of the overwhelming perception of the sublime. These experiences found in life and literature involve a feeling of coming to know something deeply important but impossible to describe.
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Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and Film
Daniel Shaviro
In Bonfires of the American Dream, through close cultural studies of classic novels and films – Atlas Shrugged, The Great Gatsby, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Wolf of Wall Street – Daniel Shaviro helps to provide a better understanding of what went wrong culturally in America.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983825
June 2022
Active
£39.99 / $39.99In Bonfires of the American Dream, through close cultural studies of classic novels and films – Atlas Shrugged, The Great Gatsby, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Wolf of Wall Street – Daniel Shaviro helps to provide a better understanding of what went wrong culturally in America.
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Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin
Edited by Maja Zawierzeniec
Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspirations in one of the most renowned Mexican poets, Brazilian dekasegi (temporary workers in Japan) described in a variety of testimonials, Japanese community in Brazil and its literary production, and a Mexican telenovela, inspired by the Japanese culture to European inspirations in a Nikkei Peruvian writer, Augusto Higa Oshiro.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984044
June 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspirations in one of the most renowned Mexican poets, Brazilian dekasegi (temporary workers in Japan) described in a variety of testimonials, Japanese community in Brazil and its literary production, and a Mexican telenovela, inspired by the Japanese culture to European inspirations in a Nikkei Peruvian writer, Augusto Higa Oshiro.
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Poetics of Race in Latin America
Edited by Mabel Moraña
Poetics of Race offers innovative approaches to the study of aesthetic and cultural representation of race and ethnicity in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean and the Andean region. Interdisciplinary studies elaborate on issues of marginalization, immigration, violence, gender, exclusion, resistance and emancipation.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984761
June 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00Poetics of Race offers innovative approaches to the study of aesthetic and cultural representation of race and ethnicity in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean and the Andean region. Interdisciplinary studies elaborate on issues of marginalization, immigration, violence, gender, exclusion, resistance and emancipation.
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The Peterborough Chronicle, Volume 1
Introduction and Text
Edited by Bernard J. Muir, Nicholas A. Sparks
This work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986994
June 2022
Active
£195.00 / $195.00This work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle.