Literature
Featured Books
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Invented History, Fabricated Power
The Narrative Shaping of Civilization and Culture
Barry Wood
This book examines more than twenty cultures, both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, emphasizing how kings, empires, religions and societies have enhanced their authority and power through fictional histories, claims of divine origins, fabricated genealogies, and miraculous events presented in literary works and forged doctrines.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274756
November 2020
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£150.00 / $150.00This book examines more than twenty cultures, both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, emphasizing how kings, empires, religions and societies have enhanced their authority and power through fictional histories, claims of divine origins, fabricated genealogies, and miraculous events presented in literary works and forged doctrines.
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The Vanishing Indian Upper Class
Life History of Raza Mohammed Khan
Terry Williams, Raza Mohammed Khan
The Vanishing Indian Upper Class is based on a life-narrative [true-life story] and contains various elements of history, politics, religion, literature and poetry. In anonymized form it dramatizes a personal family history focused around a continuing and unresolved family inheritance and property dispute, which provides the story with its dramatic tension. The main subjects in the narrative which speaks beyond the life story itself are: the human spirit; honor; betrayal; violence; love; politics; and those bonds beyond kith and kin known as comradeship and engagement. The work covers two continents involving the Indian upper class and describes how Raza Mohammed Khan and his family legacy is revealed.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274435
October 2020
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£49.00 / $49.00The Vanishing Indian Upper Class is based on a life-narrative [true-life story] and contains various elements of history, politics, religion, literature and poetry. In anonymized form it dramatizes a personal family history focused around a continuing and unresolved family inheritance and property dispute, which provides the story with its dramatic tension. The main subjects in the narrative which speaks beyond the life story itself are: the human spirit; honor; betrayal; violence; love; politics; and those bonds beyond kith and kin known as comradeship and engagement. The work covers two continents involving the Indian upper class and describes how Raza Mohammed Khan and his family legacy is revealed.
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American Literary Naturalism
Late Essays
Donald Pizer
The book collects Pizer’s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275463
October 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The book collects Pizer’s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism.
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The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children
Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day
Edited by Simon Bacon, Leo Ruickbie
This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275203
September 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil.
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Selected Poems of Bernard Barton, the ‘Quaker Poet’
Christopher Stokes
The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton’s selected verse, recovering an important figure from the Romantic era. A diverse variety of his unusual and striking poetry is supplemented by letters, reviews and other contextual material, as well as a scholarly introduction and notes.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274404
September 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton’s selected verse, recovering an important figure from the Romantic era. A diverse variety of his unusual and striking poetry is supplemented by letters, reviews and other contextual material, as well as a scholarly introduction and notes.
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Charles de Foucauld’s Reconnaissance au Maroc, 1883–1884
A Critical Edition in English
Rosemary A. Peters-Hill
Reconnaissance au Maroc is Charles de Foucauld’s adventurous memoir of exploring Morocco. For eleven months in 1883–84, Foucauld travelled incognito through a country then off-limits to Europeans, mapping its waterways. This book is a translation of Foucauld’s memoir into English, with an extensive introduction and notes that contextualize the work within Francophone post-colonial studies.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274091
September 2020
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£195.00 / $195.00Reconnaissance au Maroc is Charles de Foucauld’s adventurous memoir of exploring Morocco. For eleven months in 1883–84, Foucauld travelled incognito through a country then off-limits to Europeans, mapping its waterways. This book is a translation of Foucauld’s memoir into English, with an extensive introduction and notes that contextualize the work within Francophone post-colonial studies.
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Nineteenth-Century Southern Gothic Short Fiction
Haunted by the Dark
Edited by Charles L. Crow, Susan Castillo Street
Twelve uncanny tales of the race-haunted nineteenth-century South, by authors both celebrated and obscure, are presented along with background readings, themselves often chilling, placing the tales in a historical context.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273872
August 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Twelve uncanny tales of the race-haunted nineteenth-century South, by authors both celebrated and obscure, are presented along with background readings, themselves often chilling, placing the tales in a historical context.
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Russia Washed in Blood
A Novel in Fragments
Artyom Vesyoly
translated by Kevin Windle
introduction by Elena Govor, Kevin WindleThis book is the first English translation of a vivid fictionalised account of the Russian Civil War of 1918–1921 by a gifted writer, Artyom Vesyoly, who made it his mission to record the full horror of the events of that period. For his failure to recognise the ‘leading organisational role’ of the Communist Party, he was executed in Stalin’s Great Purge.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274848
August 2020
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£200.00 / $200.00This book is the first English translation of a vivid fictionalised account of the Russian Civil War of 1918–1921 by a gifted writer, Artyom Vesyoly, who made it his mission to record the full horror of the events of that period. For his failure to recognise the ‘leading organisational role’ of the Communist Party, he was executed in Stalin’s Great Purge.
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Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre
Edited by Mala Renganathan, Arnab Bhattacharya
‘Rabindranath Tagore's Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre’ examines Tagore’s plays from the viewpoint of Indian dramatic/performance traditions, locating him as a playwright, performer and director in the panoramic continuum of Indian dramatic/performance traditions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273940
August 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre’ examines Tagore’s plays from the viewpoint of Indian dramatic/performance traditions, locating him as a playwright, performer and director in the panoramic continuum of Indian dramatic/performance traditions.
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Reaganism in Literary Theory
Negative Moralism and Hermeneutic Suspicion
Jeremiah Bowen
Largely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man’s replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies preserved a discourse of devotion and disqualification homologous with Reaganism. This negative moralism shelters professional privilege and competition from scrutiny, supported by misrecognitions like hermeneutic suspicion, materiality, and identity politics.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272783
July 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Largely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man’s replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies preserved a discourse of devotion and disqualification homologous with Reaganism. This negative moralism shelters professional privilege and competition from scrutiny, supported by misrecognitions like hermeneutic suspicion, materiality, and identity politics.
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Reading Fiona Sampson
A Study in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Omar Sabbagh
Integrating analysis and a honed interpretation of the near-total gamut of the oeuvre to-date of Professor Fiona Sampson, the book synthesizes its rigorous discussions of the poetry, prose in different genres, and literary practices of Professor Sampson over a decades-long and much-lauded literary career to date. Including biographical insights, the book goes on to show how the oeuvre of a major contemporary poet and writer evinces a vital literary intelligence and a vision of literary practice on and for the contemporary literary scene.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274183
July 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Integrating analysis and a honed interpretation of the near-total gamut of the oeuvre to-date of Professor Fiona Sampson, the book synthesizes its rigorous discussions of the poetry, prose in different genres, and literary practices of Professor Sampson over a decades-long and much-lauded literary career to date. Including biographical insights, the book goes on to show how the oeuvre of a major contemporary poet and writer evinces a vital literary intelligence and a vision of literary practice on and for the contemporary literary scene.
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Late Victorian Orientalism
Representations of the East in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Art and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge
Edited by Eleonora Sasso
Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) in order to investigate the visual, fantasised, and imperialist representations of the East as well as the most exemplary translations of Oriental texts.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273278
June 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) in order to investigate the visual, fantasised, and imperialist representations of the East as well as the most exemplary translations of Oriental texts.
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Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve
Maximillian E. Novak
Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve is a study of the political and social milieu that informs William Congreve’s writings. The book attempts to read Congreve’s plays and his novella, Incognita, against the political and social upheaval of the period initiated by the rebellion of 1688.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273728
June 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve is a study of the political and social milieu that informs William Congreve’s writings. The book attempts to read Congreve’s plays and his novella, Incognita, against the political and social upheaval of the period initiated by the rebellion of 1688.
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Rethinking Therapeutic Reading
Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot
Kelda Green
foreword by Michael WoodThrough a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology, ‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273810
June 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Through a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology, ‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.
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Magazines and Modernity in Brazil
Transnationalisms and Cross-Cultural Exchanges
Edited by Felipe Botelho Correa, Monica Pimenta Velloso, Valéria Guimarães
The essays gathered in this book discuss transnational networks as well as cross-cultural exchanges in the context of the modern magazine print culture in Brazil (1820s to 1950s).
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273971
May 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The essays gathered in this book discuss transnational networks as well as cross-cultural exchanges in the context of the modern magazine print culture in Brazil (1820s to 1950s).
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The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett
In "the World of Actual Literature"
Thomas Recchio
Although she is remembered today mainly as a writer of children’s books, Frances Hodgson Burnett was a widely published novelist. Of high literary quality, her novels covered a range of genres, including industrial novels, American-themed social novels, historical novels, transatlantic novels and post–World War I novels. They were popular subjects in the early years of cinema. “The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett” reads Burnett’s novels in the context of the changing literary field in England and the United States in the years between the death of George Eliot in 1880 through to the Great War.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273636
May 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Although she is remembered today mainly as a writer of children’s books, Frances Hodgson Burnett was a widely published novelist. Of high literary quality, her novels covered a range of genres, including industrial novels, American-themed social novels, historical novels, transatlantic novels and post–World War I novels. They were popular subjects in the early years of cinema. “The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett” reads Burnett’s novels in the context of the changing literary field in England and the United States in the years between the death of George Eliot in 1880 through to the Great War.
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Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin
Richard Hillyer
“Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin” is a concise study focusing on four poets who because of their distinctive profiles illustrate especially well the opportunities and pitfalls of writing science poetry during the long eighteenth century.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785272912
April 2020
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£59.95 / $59.95“Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin” is a concise study focusing on four poets who because of their distinctive profiles illustrate especially well the opportunities and pitfalls of writing science poetry during the long eighteenth century.
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Improvisations of Empire
Thomas Pringle in Scotland, the Cape Colony and London, 1789–1834
Matthew Shum
‘Improvisations of Empire’ examines the varied career of Thomas Pringle, a Scottish poet and journalist. It engages his formative Scottish years, his stay in South Africa and his subsequent residence in London where he became the secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society and a well-known editor.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273780
April 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Improvisations of Empire’ examines the varied career of Thomas Pringle, a Scottish poet and journalist. It engages his formative Scottish years, his stay in South Africa and his subsequent residence in London where he became the secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society and a well-known editor.
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Neo-Gothic Narratives
Illusory Allusions from the Past
Edited by Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres
‘Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272172
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times.
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Poetry and Freedom: Discoveries in Aesthetics, 1985–2018
Paul Oppenheimer
This book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the aesthetics of poetic freedom, from antiquity to the present and from Europe and the Middle East into the poetry of the English-speaking world. Questions about the elusiveness of poetic freedom are tested vis-à-vis the works of Whitman, Dickinson, Rilke, Dante and Virgil that result in a fresh, and well-nigh revolutionary, way of seeing literary and modern history, or an initiation into the more striking gift of aesthetic freedom.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272974
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the aesthetics of poetic freedom, from antiquity to the present and from Europe and the Middle East into the poetry of the English-speaking world. Questions about the elusiveness of poetic freedom are tested vis-à-vis the works of Whitman, Dickinson, Rilke, Dante and Virgil that result in a fresh, and well-nigh revolutionary, way of seeing literary and modern history, or an initiation into the more striking gift of aesthetic freedom.
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Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman
Tabitha Kenlon
“Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman” examines six centuries of conduct manuals and other instructive writing, analyzing the history of gendered expectations that have been debated in print from the fourteenth century and continue to influence our present thinking about women’s roles and abilities.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273148
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00“Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman” examines six centuries of conduct manuals and other instructive writing, analyzing the history of gendered expectations that have been debated in print from the fourteenth century and continue to influence our present thinking about women’s roles and abilities.
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The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry
J.T. Welsch
The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry is the first book-length study of the contemporary poetry industry. By documenting radical changes over the past decade in the way poems are published, marketed, and circulated, it connects the seemingly small world of poetry with the other, wider creative industries.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273353
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry is the first book-length study of the contemporary poetry industry. By documenting radical changes over the past decade in the way poems are published, marketed, and circulated, it connects the seemingly small world of poetry with the other, wider creative industries.
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Literature and Inequality
Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era through the First Gilded Age
Daniel Shaviro
Great works of literature, by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, can help us to better understand the social ramifications of high-end inequality – not just in the authors' eras but today.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273667
March 2020
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£39.99 / $39.99Great works of literature, by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, can help us to better understand the social ramifications of high-end inequality – not just in the authors’ eras but today.
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Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s AbhijñānaŚākuntalam
Edited by Namrata Chaturvedi
‘Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s ‘AbhijñānaŚākuntalam’’ aims to read Kālidāsa’s masterpiece through poetic and philosophical resonances as evidenced in the metre, rhythm and symbolism carefully embedded in the narrative and dramatic text.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273209
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s ‘AbhijñānaŚākuntalam’’ aims to read Kālidāsa’s masterpiece through poetic and philosophical resonances as evidenced in the metre, rhythm and symbolism carefully embedded in the narrative and dramatic text.