Literature
Featured Books
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The Peterborough Chronicle, Volume 2
Translation, Indexes and Plates
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This work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle.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
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9781839987021
June 2022
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£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work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle.
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Chindian Myth of Mulian Rescuing His Mother – On Indic Origins of the Yulanpen Sūtra
Debate and Discussion
Xiaohuan Zhao
The scriptural source for the Ghost Festival in East Asia is the Yulanpen Sūtra, which, however, is overwhelmingly considered apocryphal in modern scholarship. This book challenges this widely held belief by demonstrating that the sūtra is a Chinese creative translation rather than an indigenous Chinese composition.
Anthem Press
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9781839986963
May 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95The scriptural source for the Ghost Festival in East Asia is the Yulanpen Sūtra, which, however, is overwhelmingly considered apocryphal in modern scholarship. This book challenges this widely held belief by demonstrating that the sūtra is a Chinese creative translation rather than an indigenous Chinese composition.
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Universality and Utopia
The 20th Century Indigenista Peruvian Tradition
Daniel Sacilotto
This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenista literary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation to the evolution of socialist thought and dialectical materialist philosophy.
Anthem Press
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9781839986871
May 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenista literary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation to the evolution of socialist thought and dialectical materialist philosophy.
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The Politics of Public Opinion in the Novels of Anthony Trollope
A 'Tenth Muse'
Jan Gordon
The Politics of Public Opinion: Trollope'’s ‘Tenth Muse’ takes as its subject the rise of public opinion in the nineteenth-century British novel as (1) a uniquely collective narrative form posing as a singular voice and (2) a “voice” that distances itself from re-sponsibility by disguising its presence. As both immanent and transcendent, public opinion is aligned with “empty universals” that generate meaning.
Anthem Press
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9781839986932
May 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00The Politics of Public Opinion: Trollope’’s ‘Tenth Muse’ takes as its subject the rise of public opinion in the nineteenth-century British novel as (1) a uniquely collective narrative form posing as a singular voice and (2) a “voice” that distances itself from re-sponsibility by disguising its presence. As both immanent and transcendent, public opinion is aligned with “empty universals” that generate meaning.
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Gothic Appalachian Literature
Sarah Robertson
Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of their representation of economic and environmental concerns.
Anthem Press
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9781839986789
May 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of their representation of economic and environmental concerns.
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Hawthorne’s Histories, Hawthorne’s World
From Salem to Somewhere Else
Michael J. Colacurcio
Hawthorne’s Literary History collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne since the publication of his ground-breaking Province of Piety, elaborating and refining his analyses of how Hawthorne’s most memorable early tales “do history,” but proceeding then to explore the later productions of that author’s distinguished career.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983221
May 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Hawthorne’s Literary History collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne since the publication of his ground-breaking Province of Piety, elaborating and refining his analyses of how Hawthorne’s most memorable early tales “do history,” but proceeding then to explore the later productions of that author’s distinguished career.
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Tasos Leivaditis’ Triptych
Battle at the Edge of the Night, This Star Is for All of Us, The Wind at the Crossroads of the World
Edited and translated by N.N. Trakakis
Tasos Leivaditis made his stunning literary debut in 1952-53 with three poetry books, counteracting the violence and oppression of his times with the values of eros and solidarity, freedom and justice.
Anthem Press
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9781785278822
May 2022
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£24.99 / $24.99Tasos Leivaditis made his stunning literary debut in 1952-53 with three poetry books, counteracting the violence and oppression of his times with the values of eros and solidarity, freedom and justice.
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Yeats and Revisionism
A Half Century of the Dancer and the Dance
Daniel O'Hara
The books collects Daniel T. O’Hara’s half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last fifty years, even as it opens the prospects for the future of critical reading of Yeats and modern poetry.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986550
April 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The books collects Daniel T. O’Hara’s half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last fifty years, even as it opens the prospects for the future of critical reading of Yeats and modern poetry.
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Unfinished Austen: Interpreting “Catharine”, “Lady Susan”, “The Watsons” and “Sanditon”
Joanne Wilkes
Unfinished Austen is the first detailed study of four texts that Jane Austen left incomplete and unpublished: Catharine, or the Bower (1792–3), Lady Susan (1795?), The Watsons (1803–4?) and Sanditon (1817).
Anthem Press
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9781839986024
March 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00Unfinished Austen is the first detailed study of four texts that Jane Austen left incomplete and unpublished: Catharine, or the Bower (1792–3), Lady Susan (1795?), The Watsons (1803–4?) and Sanditon (1817).
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Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing
Amina Yaqin
This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth century. It introduces the resilient voices of poets who tread a fine line between the secular and sacred in an Islamic society to articulate a new feminist aesthetic.
Anthem Press
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9781785277559
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth century. It introduces the resilient voices of poets who tread a fine line between the secular and sacred in an Islamic society to articulate a new feminist aesthetic.
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Elegy for Literature
Jeffrey T. Nealon
Elegy for Literature is an overview of the current crisis within the academic study of literature. It suggests a way forward for rethinking the work that literary studies can do – less as a set of literary objects, and more as a way of life.
Anthem Press
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9781839983955
March 2022
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£24.99 / $24.99Elegy for Literature is an overview of the current crisis within the academic study of literature. It suggests a way forward for rethinking the work that literary studies can do – less as a set of literary objects, and more as a way of life.
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Julia Wedgwood, The Unexpected Victorian
The Life and Writing of a Remarkable Female Intellectual
Sue Brown
The first biography of Julia Wedgwood, the leading Victorian female intellect and writer, niece of Charles Darwin, intimate friend of Robert Browning and mentor of E. M. Forster. The book draws on a mass of unpublished family correspondence offering critical consideration of her ambitious range of non-fiction books, articles and novels.
Anthem Press
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9781839984105
March 2022
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£150.00 / $150.00The first biography of Julia Wedgwood, the leading Victorian female intellect and writer, niece of Charles Darwin, intimate friend of Robert Browning and mentor of E. M. Forster. The book draws on a mass of unpublished family correspondence offering critical consideration of her ambitious range of non-fiction books, articles and novels.
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Victorian Ladies in the Ottoman Empire
Lifting the Veil
Elisabetta Marino
Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to modern-day Turkey, Egypt, and Cyprus) during the reign of Queen Victoria, this volume analyzes the multi-faceted, often ambivalent and conflicting ways their encounters with Otherness articulated itself to the masses.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985829
March 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to modern-day Turkey, Egypt, and Cyprus) during the reign of Queen Victoria, this volume analyzes the multi-faceted, often ambivalent and conflicting ways their encounters with Otherness articulated itself to the masses.
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May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate
Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century
Julia Dabbs
May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the travel writings by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Her critical commentary on social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century, such as gender and class discrimination, still resonate today.
Anthem Press
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9781785278648
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the travel writings by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Her critical commentary on social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century, such as gender and class discrimination, still resonate today.
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Sounding Prose
Music in the 17th-Century Dutch Novel
Natascha Veldhorst
This book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands. The essay provides a concise and an accessible introduction into the subject and presents an overview of this compelling new research area.
Anthem Press
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9781839983009
March 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95This book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands. The essay provides a concise and an accessible introduction into the subject and presents an overview of this compelling new research area.
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Epic Ambitions in Modern Times
From Paradise Lost to the New Millennium
Robert Crossley
Epic Ambitions in Modern Times examines how artists, in various forms and media, have reinvented the epic in the past three centuries.
Anthem Press
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9781839985485
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Epic Ambitions in Modern Times examines how artists, in various forms and media, have reinvented the epic in the past three centuries.
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Creativity and “the Paris Review” Interviews
A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers' Composing Practices
Ronda Leathers Dively
In Creativity and The Paris Review Interviews: A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers' Composing Practices, author Ronda Leathers Dively explores contexts, behaviors, and composing practices that generated some of the world’s most significant literary works. Her analysis ultimately leads to concrete recommendations for aspiring writers and for composition instructors seeking to facilitate student success.
Anthem Press
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9781785278433
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00In Creativity and The Paris Review Interviews: A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers’ Composing Practices, author Ronda Leathers Dively explores contexts, behaviors, and composing practices that generated some of the world’s most significant literary works. Her analysis ultimately leads to concrete recommendations for aspiring writers and for composition instructors seeking to facilitate student success.
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Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction
The Language of Acknowledgment
Greg Chase
Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment shows how works of twentieth-century literature and philosophy together examine language’s capacity to acknowledge the inner lives of marginalized figures.
Anthem Press
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9781839980633
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment shows how works of twentieth-century literature and philosophy together examine language’s capacity to acknowledge the inner lives of marginalized figures.
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The Portrayal of Breastfeeding in Literature
B.J. Woodstein
Analyses the depiction of breastfeeding in literature, what it tells us about how women are perceived in our society and how it matters.
Anthem Press
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9781785274008
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Analyses the depiction of breastfeeding in literature, what it tells us about how women are perceived in our society and how it matters.
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The Reading Figure in Irish Art in the Long Nineteenth Century
Tricia Cusack
This book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which figures read or hold a book. Reading fiction was cast as unmanly, while ‘silent reading’ allowed women of means to read widely and privately. Portraits of such women helped construct the idea of the ‘New Woman’ in Ireland.
Anthem Press
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9781785276446
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which figures read or hold a book. Reading fiction was cast as unmanly, while ‘silent reading’ allowed women of means to read widely and privately. Portraits of such women helped construct the idea of the ‘New Woman’ in Ireland.
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The Gothic Literature and History of New England
Secrets of the Restless Dead
Faye Ringel
The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the origin, nature and future of the Gothic mode in New England’s history and literature, from the Puritans to the present, showing how the legacy of religious intolerance, racism and misogyny haunts fiction, film and popular culture.
Anthem Press
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9781785279034
February 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the origin, nature and future of the Gothic mode in New England’s history and literature, from the Puritans to the present, showing how the legacy of religious intolerance, racism and misogyny haunts fiction, film and popular culture.
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Gothic Kernow: Cornwall as Strange Fiction
Ruth Heholt, Tanya Krzywinska
Focussing on written and visual culture that is made in or made about Cornwall, this book argues that Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as ‘Kernow’ in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic.
Anthem Press
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9781785279065
January 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Focussing on written and visual culture that is made in or made about Cornwall, this book argues that Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as ‘Kernow’ in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic.
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Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature
Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez
The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia—from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali.
Anthem Press
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9781785278310
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia—from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali.
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The Renaissance Discovery of Violence, from Boccaccio to Shakespeare
Robert Appelbaum
This study looks at key Renaissance texts in the novelle collection, the humanist satire, epic-romance, and vernacular tragedy. It places both violence and its representations in the context of major historical events, like the Sack of Rome, and developments in the history of violence per se.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981470
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This study looks at key Renaissance texts in the novelle collection, the humanist satire, epic-romance, and vernacular tragedy. It places both violence and its representations in the context of major historical events, like the Sack of Rome, and developments in the history of violence per se.