Literature
Featured Books
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Imagining Gender, Nation and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s
Rachael Alexander
Offering the first comparative study of 1920s’ US and Canadian print cultures, ‘Imagining Gender, Nation and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s’ comparatively examines the highly influential ‘Ladies’ Home Journal’ (1883–2014) and the often-overlooked ‘Canadian Home Journal’ (1905–1958), revealing how they constructed their imagined audience as readers, consumers and citizens.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273476
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Offering the first comparative study of 1920s’ US and Canadian print cultures, ‘Imagining Gender, Nation and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s’ comparatively examines the highly influential ‘Ladies’ Home Journal’ (1883–2014) and the often-overlooked ‘Canadian Home Journal’ (1905–1958), revealing how they constructed their imagined audience as readers, consumers and citizens.
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Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters: Volume 3 – Letters from Germany
Edited by Ben P. Robertson, Ekaterina V. Kobeleva
Nikolai GretschNikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980879
September 2021
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£140.00 / $140.00Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
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International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults
Edited by B.J. Epstein, Elizabeth Chapman
This edited collection investigates LGBTQ+ literature for young readers around the world, including picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels. It brings together contributions from across the academic and activist spectra to explore what is at stake when we write (or do not write) about LGBTQ+ topics for young readers.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279843
August 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This edited collection investigates LGBTQ+ literature for young readers around the world, including picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels. It brings together contributions from across the academic and activist spectra to explore what is at stake when we write (or do not write) about LGBTQ+ topics for young readers.
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Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters: Volume 1 – Letters from England
Edited by Ben P. Robertson, Ekaterina V. Kobeleva
Nikolai GretschNikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980817
August 2021
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£140.00 / $140.00Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
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Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters: Volume 2 – Letters from France
Edited by Ben P. Robertson, Ekaterina V. Kobeleva
Nikolai GretschNikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980848
August 2021
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£140.00 / $140.00Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
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Raymond Federman and Samuel Beckett
Voices in the Closet
Nathalie Camerlynck
This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277955
July 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist.
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Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater
S. E. Gontarski
Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater engages the Williams we thought we knew, as he grew, developed, reconfigured himself into a playwright we didn’t, in his attempts to refashion himself amid the vortices of changing sexual mores, including the performance of masculinities and the queering of theater, the struggle for a literate, literary theater, and the place of the theatrical experience in his contemporary culture.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785276873
July 2021
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£24.99 / $24.99Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater engages the Williams we thought we knew, as he grew, developed, reconfigured himself into a playwright we didn’t, in his attempts to refashion himself amid the vortices of changing sexual mores, including the performance of masculinities and the queering of theater, the struggle for a literate, literary theater, and the place of the theatrical experience in his contemporary culture.
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Dream and Literary Creation in Women’s Writings in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Edited by Isabelle Hervouet, Anne Rouhette
This edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in women’s writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from the end of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century with a strong focus on the Romantic period and particularly on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277528
June 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in women’s writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from the end of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century with a strong focus on the Romantic period and particularly on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
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The Great Illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe
Tony Magistrale, Jessica Slayton
An introduction to some of the most important illustrators producing work inspired by the tales and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe from their earliest iterations in the 1880s to the present day
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277832
May 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00An introduction to some of the most important illustrators producing work inspired by the tales and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe from their earliest iterations in the 1880s to the present day
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A Social History of Literacy in Japan
£125.00 / $125.00Edited and translated by Richard Rubinger
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277016
March 2021
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American Paraliterature and Other Theories to Hijack Communication
Blake Stricklin
A critical account of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference, which Michel Foucault called “the last countercultural event of the 1960s,” and its direct and indirect connection to American experimental literature.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277221
March 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00A critical account of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference, which Michel Foucault called “the last countercultural event of the 1960s,” and its direct and indirect connection to American experimental literature.
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Narrative Art and the Politics of Health
Edited by Neil Brooks, Sarah Blanchette
This intersectional collection considers how literature, film, and narrative, more broadly, take up the complexities of health, demonstrating the pivotal role of storytelling in health politics.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277108
March 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This intersectional collection considers how literature, film, and narrative, more broadly, take up the complexities of health, demonstrating the pivotal role of storytelling in health politics.
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People, Nations and Traditions in a Comparative Frame
Thinking about the Past with Jonathan Steinberg
Edited by D’Maris Coffman, Harold James, Nicholas Di Liberto
This book illustrates and celebrates Professor Jonathan Steinberg’s – a celebrated historian of modern Europe, especially Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland – contributions to historical practice. Professor Steinberg embraced methodological pluralism and pioneered comparative history, exploring the past through a multi-valent lens that examined the interplay between personalities, nations, and traditions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277672
March 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book illustrates and celebrates Professor Jonathan Steinberg’s – a celebrated historian of modern Europe, especially Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland – contributions to historical practice. Professor Steinberg embraced methodological pluralism and pioneered comparative history, exploring the past through a multi-valent lens that examined the interplay between personalities, nations, and traditions.
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Prizing Scottish Literature
A Cultural History of the Saltire Society Literary Awards
Stevie Marsden
This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reveal about the wider mechanisms of how literary prize culture functions in the UK today.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274817
February 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reveal about the wider mechanisms of how literary prize culture functions in the UK today.
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Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy
Tudor and Stuart Black Legends
Victoria Muñoz
By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273308
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest.
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W. H. Davies
Essays on the Super-Tramp Poet
Edited by Rory Waterman
This book brings together, for the first time, a collection of articles from leading scholars on the writing, and literary and social contexts, of the ‘tramp-poet’ and memoirist W. H. Davies (1871–1940).
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274565
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book brings together, for the first time, a collection of articles from leading scholars on the writing, and literary and social contexts, of the ‘tramp-poet’ and memoirist W. H. Davies (1871–1940).
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Colonial Australian Women Poets
Political Voice and Feminist Traditions
Katie Hansord
This book considers the political and feminist significance of non-canonical women poets, particularly those who were writing in newspapers and periodicals, in colonial Australia.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272691
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book considers the political and feminist significance of non-canonical women poets, particularly those who were writing in newspapers and periodicals, in colonial Australia.
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Tribunal
A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts
Vladimir Voinovich
Edited and translated by Eric D. MeyerVladimir Voinovich’s Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by a Soviet dissident who was sometimes called ‘Russia’s greatest living satirist.’ Voinovich is also the author of Moscow 2042 and The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276682
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Vladimir Voinovich’s Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by a Soviet dissident who was sometimes called ‘Russia’s greatest living satirist.’ Voinovich is also the author of Moscow 2042 and The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin.
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Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
Karl Erik Schollhammer
This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275562
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment.
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Reading as a Philosophical Practice
Robert Piercey
This book asks why reading matters so much to so many people. Its answer is that reading is a philosophical activity: a way of working through, and taking a stand on, fundamental questions about who and what we are, how we should live, and how we relate to other things.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276071
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book asks why reading matters so much to so many people. Its answer is that reading is a philosophical activity: a way of working through, and taking a stand on, fundamental questions about who and what we are, how we should live, and how we relate to other things.
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Addiction, Representation and the Experimental Novel, 1985–2015
Heath A. Diehl
The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to addicts than the Western realistic novel traditionally has offered.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276132
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The book analyzes the practices and politics of reading the experimental addiction novel, and outlines both a practice and an ethics of reading that advocates for a more compassionate response to addicts than the Western realistic novel traditionally has offered.
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Transnationalism and Translation in Modern Chinese, English, French and Japanese Literatures
Ryan Johnson
Drawing on the latest work in comparative philosophy and comparative literature, this book presents an innovative model of transnational literary exchanges.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274343
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Drawing on the latest work in comparative philosophy and comparative literature, this book presents an innovative model of transnational literary exchanges.
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The Varieties of Joycean Experience
Tim Conley
A collection of essays on Joyce’s work stressing variations of approach. Forays into and across Joyce’s oeuvre would draw upon a number of new and recent modes of criticism, including textual genetics, cognitive studies, and ecocriticism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274596
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00A collection of essays on Joyce’s work stressing variations of approach. Forays into and across Joyce’s oeuvre would draw upon a number of new and recent modes of criticism, including textual genetics, cognitive studies, and ecocriticism.
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The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism
Scholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points
H. Aram Veeser
A group of homogeneous interviews with contemporary literary and cultural theorists All the interviews are completed. The same ten questions were addressed to all the interviewees. The result is a homogeneous volume unlike most other interview projects.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274374
November 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00A group of homogeneous interviews with contemporary literary and cultural theorists All the interviews are completed. The same ten questions were addressed to all the interviewees. The result is a homogeneous volume unlike most other interview projects.