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A detailed account of the fiction and films of France's best-known and most controversial woman writer. Leslie Hill throws light on Duras's relationship with feminism, sexuality and psychoanalysis.

Postcolonialism is used as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevence to the Caribbean experience.

In this original and ground-breaking study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of identity and recognition in the meaning of 'American.'

Introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. This book examines the work of the Moroccan Muhammad Barrada; the Egyptian Idwar al-Kharrat; the Lebanese Ilyas

Making a forceful case for political poetry as poetry, this book examines American poets, radical movements and social struggles in order to bring out an undervalued strength in a literature often left

This book explores the historical and imaginary representation of the Saracen, or Muslim, in French writings from 1100 to 1500. Literary relationships between Christians and Muslims are placed side-by-side with historical accounts

A superb study of black women's writing, taking our understanding of identity, location and representation to new levels. A major contribution to a range of related fields including feminist, cultural and postcolonial

This collection will be an essential resource for all who seek to lean more about human history, human literature and human sexuality.

This book examines a sequence of crisis in nineteenth-century print culture in order to offer an original narrative of what it meant, and what it could have meant to be a Victorian

This work examines the emergence of the separate confinement penitentiary in England, the demand for autobiography that the prison imposed and the ways the prison's demand for self narrative shaped Victorian novels

Extends the range of critical engagement with children's fiction by exploring the feminine subject in paradigm texts by Margaret Mahy and Gillian Cross.

This is a collection of original essays by leading Conrad scholars that rereads Conrad in light of his representations of post-colonialism, of empire, imperialism, and of modernism, questions that are once again

The image of the runaway slave hiding out in the swamp exerted great power over the imagination of nineteenth century America. This book is a reappraisal of a subject that chimes with

Combining literary analysis with cultural criticism, this book highlights the aspect of our nation's iconic development in statuary. It investigates the connection between the contested nineteenth-century American monument tradition and one of

Shows that education constitutes the central metaphor of John Milton's political as well as his poetic writing. Demonstrating how Milton's theory of education emerged from his own practices as a reader and

Provides an investigation of the double trope as a central area of Dicken's writings in their relation to Victorian culture, using this examination of the double to shed light on such issues

This book looks at examples of the physical depiction of slaves, from the ancient and medieval worlds and from slave societies of more recent times in the Americas and the Caribbean.