Literature
Featured Books
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The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Richard Reeve
‘The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard’ offers a detailed and previously undocumented account of how the writer’s emotional experiences, primarily in the sexual arena, consistently informed and enriched his fiction.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087631
February 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard’ offers a detailed and previously undocumented account of how the writer’s emotional experiences, primarily in the sexual arena, consistently informed and enriched his fiction.
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The Early Roxburghe Club 1812–1835
Book Club Pioneers and the Advancement of English Literature
Shayne Husbands
The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. This work offers a new narrative of the formative years of the Club and early nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and its relationship to the emergent popularity and status of English vernacular literature.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086900
August 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. This work offers a new narrative of the formative years of the Club and early nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and its relationship to the emergent popularity and status of English vernacular literature.
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Betwixt and Between
The Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft
Brenda Ayres
‘Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft’ identifies the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities and gaps that have run rampant in biographies on Wollstonecraft, many of them incomprehensively left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. It also analyzes how these flaws have subsequently and significantly distorted scholars’ understanding of Wollstonecraft and her works.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086849
June 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft’ identifies the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities and gaps that have run rampant in biographies on Wollstonecraft, many of them incomprehensively left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. It also analyzes how these flaws have subsequently and significantly distorted scholars’ understanding of Wollstonecraft and her works.
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The Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington
The Most Gorgeous Lady on the Tour
Aneta Lipska
This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) and offers the first detailed analysis of her four travel books.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086788
June 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) and offers the first detailed analysis of her four travel books.
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Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney
Jessica A. Volz
‘Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney’ examines the forms and functions of visuality in the novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney. It offers new insights into vision, fiction and depiction by exploring how the visual details in women’s novels published between 1778 and 1815 are more telling about gender politics than scholars have previously acknowledged.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086603
March 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney’ examines the forms and functions of visuality in the novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney. It offers new insights into vision, fiction and depiction by exploring how the visual details in women’s novels published between 1778 and 1815 are more telling about gender politics than scholars have previously acknowledged.
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Before Einstein
The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture
Elizabeth L. Throesch
Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. ‘Before Einstein’ offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086238
January 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. ‘Before Einstein’ offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America
An Anthology
Edited by Paul C. Gutjahr
Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085798
November 2016
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£200.00 / $200.00Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States.
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‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in Context
Magic, Madness and Mayhem
Keith Linley
How might Shakespeare’s audiences have responded to this enduringly popular comedy? This guide to the various contexts that situate 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy that inform the background of this mad play.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781783085552
November 2016
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£24.95 / $24.95How might Shakespeare’s audiences have responded to this enduringly popular comedy? This guide to the various contexts that situate ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy that inform the background of this mad play.
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‘Volpone’ in Context
Biters Bitten and Fools Fooled
Keith Linley
What would a Jacobean audience have made of this grim exposure of human greed? This guide to the various contexts that situate 'Volpone' in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy that inform the background of this dark play.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781783085583
November 2016
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£24.95 / $24.95What would a Jacobean audience have made of this grim exposure of human greed? This guide to the various contexts that situate ‘Volpone’ in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy that inform the background of this dark play.
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Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture
Paige Reynolds
Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. The interdisciplinary collection reveals how Irish artists grapple with modernist legacies and forge new modes of expression for modern and contemporary culture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085736
September 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. The interdisciplinary collection reveals how Irish artists grapple with modernist legacies and forge new modes of expression for modern and contemporary culture.
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Alternative Modernities in French Travel Writing
Engaging Urban Space in London and New York, 1851–1986
Gillian Jein
Examining the aesthetics and politics at stake in urban travel writing as spatial practice, this book explores French travellers’ representations of London and New York from 1851 to the 1980s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085125
June 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00Examining the aesthetics and politics at stake in urban travel writing as spatial practice, this book explores French travellers’ representations of London and New York from 1851 to the 1980s.
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Patrick White Beyond the Grave
Edited by Ian Henderson, Anouk Lang
Carrying forward the momentum of the twenty-first-century ‘rediscovery’ of Patrick White (1912–1990), winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, this book features work by White scholars aiming to stimulate future research into ‘world’ modernism, queer literature, and the ‘jittery’ modernist impulses of contemporary culture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783083978
August 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00Carrying forward the momentum of the twenty-first-century ‘rediscovery’ of Patrick White (1912–1990), winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, this book features work by White scholars aiming to stimulate future research into ‘world’ modernism, queer literature, and the ‘jittery’ modernist impulses of contemporary culture.
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Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique
Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity
Andrew McCann
This is the first theoretically informed study of Tsiolkas’s work. It follows the arc of his controversial career, and explores the tensions between political radicality, transgressive sexuality and his more recent commercial success.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084036
June 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00This is the first theoretically informed study of Tsiolkas’s work. It follows the arc of his controversial career, and explores the tensions between political radicality, transgressive sexuality and his more recent commercial success.
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Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway
Kathryn Walchester
‘Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway’ explores the surprising significance of Norway in the writing of British women during the nineteenth century, the country offering a place of freedom and possibility beyond Victorian Britain.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783083657
December 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway’ explores the surprising significance of Norway in the writing of British women during the nineteenth century, the country offering a place of freedom and possibility beyond Victorian Britain.
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The Significant Hamlin Garland
A Collection of Essays
Donald Pizer
This book collects the best of Donald Pizer’s essays dealing with Hamlin Garland’s early work and activities in to re-establish the importance of this formative stage in his career.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783083053
October 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00This book collects the best of Donald Pizer’s essays dealing with Hamlin Garland’s early work and activities in to re-establish the importance of this formative stage in his career.
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The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George
A Revisionary History
Mark Frost
This major new work, based on significant new material on Ruskin’s Guild of St George, offers the first authoritative work on this important venture in Ruskin’s late career in social, cultural, and environmental action.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082834
August 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00This major new work, based on significant new material on Ruskin’s Guild of St George, offers the first authoritative work on this important venture in Ruskin’s late career in social, cultural, and environmental action.
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Globalization, Nationalism and the Text of ‘Kichaka-Vadha’
The First English Translation of the Marathi Anticolonial Classic, with a Historical Analysis of Theatre in British India
Edited and translated by Rakesh H. Solomon
This volume offers the first English translation of one of India’s most celebrated works of anticolonial resistance. It is also the first edition of the play to provide an extensive historical-critical commentary and to draw on a comprehensive range of colonial archival documents.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082650
July 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume offers the first English translation of one of India’s most celebrated works of anticolonial resistance. It is also the first edition of the play to provide an extensive historical-critical commentary and to draw on a comprehensive range of colonial archival documents.
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Inside Australian Culture
Legacies of Enlightenment Values
Baden Offord, Erika Kerruish, Rob Garbutt, Adele Wessell, Kirsten Pavlovic
foreword by Ashis Nandy
afterword by Vinay Lal‘Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values’ offers a critical intervention into the effects of colonialism in Australia, which continue to inform and dominate its public culture and institutions. Through an analysis of three significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate how the public sphere continues to derive its values from the British Enlightenment.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082315
July 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values’ offers a critical intervention into the effects of colonialism in Australia, which continue to inform and dominate its public culture and institutions. Through an analysis of three significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate how the public sphere continues to derive its values from the British Enlightenment.
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Modern European Tragedy
Exploring Crucial Plays
Annamaria Cascetta
The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century – one of the most violent periods of human history – that the tragic form significantly developed. ‘Modern European Tragedy’ examines the consciousness of this era, drawing a picture of the development of the tragic through an in-depth analysis of some of the twentieth century’s most outstanding texts.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783081530
May 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century – one of the most violent periods of human history – that the tragic form significantly developed. ‘Modern European Tragedy’ examines the consciousness of this era, drawing a picture of the development of the tragic through an in-depth analysis of some of the twentieth century’s most outstanding texts.
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The Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw
Edited by Debbie Bark
Ann HawkshawAlong with a biographical and critical introduction, ‘The Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw’ brings together Hawkshaw’s four volumes of poetry and republishes them together for the first time. An appendix of reviews and contemporary criticism of Hawkshaw’s work is included, along with details of the republication of individual poems.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783080212
April 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00Along with a biographical and critical introduction, ‘The Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw’ brings together Hawkshaw’s four volumes of poetry and republishes them together for the first time. An appendix of reviews and contemporary criticism of Hawkshaw’s work is included, along with details of the republication of individual poems.
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Interpersonal Encounters in Contemporary Travel Writing
French and Italian Perspectives
Catharine Mee
A critical study on the theme of interpersonal encounter in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century French and Italian travel writing.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783080373
March 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00A critical study on the theme of interpersonal encounter in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century French and Italian travel writing.
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In the World of the Outcasts
Notes of a Former Penal Laborer, Volume II
Pëtr Filippovich Iakubovich
translated by Andrew A. Gentes
introduction by Andrew A. GentesThis is the first English-language translation of P. F. Iakubovich’s popular roman à clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian penal laborer during the late nineteenth century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783081127
February 2014
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£130.00 / $130.00This is the first English-language translation of P. F. Iakubovich’s popular roman à clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian penal laborer during the late nineteenth century.
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In the World of the Outcasts
Notes of a Former Penal Laborer, Volume I
Pëtr Filippovich Iakubovich
translated by Andrew A. Gentes
introduction by Andrew A. GentesThis is the first English-language translation of P. F. Iakubovich’s popular roman à clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian penal laborer during the late nineteenth century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783081110
February 2014
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£130.00 / $130.00This is the first English-language translation of P. F. Iakubovich’s popular roman à clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian penal laborer during the late nineteenth century.
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On Beckett
Essays and Criticism
Edited by S. E. Gontarski
“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.
Anthem Press
E-Book (EPUB)
9781783081585
January 2014
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£32.00 / $32.00“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.