Bücher der Reihe Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Examines the relationship between ethics, politics, and poetics. This book studies twentieth-century experimental American poetry. Relying upon the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, it charts the development of ethical praxis in experimental work from the Objectivists of the 1920s, through to analysis of the Black Mountain and Beat writers.

Explores the themes of alienation and displacement in a genre of post-World War II novels that portrays the pursuit of an authentic travel experience in a culturally unfamiliar place. This book examines the capacity of popular culture for social critique, and the relationship between leisure travel and postcolonial cultures.

Examines the unique cultural space of Victorian cathedral towns as they appear in the literary work of Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope, arguing that Dickens and Trollope use the cathedral town's enclosure, and its overt connections between sacred and secular as an ideal locus from which to critique Victorian religious attitudes.

Medical, popular, and literary understanding about the imagination converged when Thomas Willis asserted that he had discovered the area of the brain that facilitated imagining. Taking this 'discovery' as paradigmatic, this work examines the reverberations of the medical investigation of the imagination in early British novels.

Drawing on women's wills, merchants' tracts, mock testaments, mercantilist pamphlets and theatrical account books, and utilizing the work in economic theory and history, this book examines the history of economic thought as the history of discourse. It finds linguistic and generic stress placed on an ethics of credit that allows for self-interest.

Addressing the two principal literary works in which transformation in the meaning of equity in sixteenth century England becomes apparent, Thomas More's "Utopia" and Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene", this work sketches the history of equity to its roots in the Greek concept of "epieikeia", presenting both distinctions, and an esoteric meaning.

A deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that of emotion/affect and trauma studies. This text brings together academic foci - history of medicine, aesthetic theory, speech act theory, feminism, and gender and performance studies.

Reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several writers - including Emerson, Warner, and Melville - to render the rupture of loss in various ways. This book shows how these three writers rejected Calvinist and sentimental models of bereavement, creating instead the compensations of a mature American literature.

Examines plays, pageants, maps, and masques. This book locates the ways in which these ephemeral events contributed to change in the spatial concepts and physical topograpy of early modern London.

Explores the memorializing practices of American veterans of the Vietnam War at several of the most significant contemporary sites of memory in the United States and Vietnam. This book examines how veterans' memorializing practices have become increasingly individualized, commodified, and conservative since the early 1980s.

Undertakes a reconceptualization of the theoretical and experiential framework of the Romantic sublime by shifting the focus from Burke's and Kant's prescriptions of natural vastness and grandeur to the narrower but no less wondrous spaces, objects and experiences of everyday life.

An examination of self-representation in US culture. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, it focuses on the processes of national development, the self-construction of authorial personae and the appropriation of the personae by interpretive communities.

Examining reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties, this book emphasises the vitality of little magazines and argues for their necessary place in the study of modernism.

This is a collection of essays representative of diverse geographies, all of which underscore moments of disordered eating. The volume removes the pathology and stigma surrounding non-normative eating, highlighting these acts as expressions of resistance against the sociopolitical order of operations.

Participating in the reframing of literary studies, this book identifies, as "cosmopolitan fiction", a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of complex and multiple belonging.

Examines the emergence of alternative communication models, literary genres, and reading and interpretive strategies in response to mass media over the period of 1678 to 1722. It reveals that the term 'information' undergoes a significant transformation with social, cultural and literary consequences.

Demonstrates how debates over copyright law in nineteenth-century America forced authors to defend their profession and their literary property in the courts, the press and in the pages of their own texts. This book argues that the act of taking out a copyright was more than a mere legal mechanism marking a transition from amateur to professional.

Tracing the fortunes of Orientalist scholars from the inception of British rule, this study charts the work of key Indologists in the colonial era. It charts a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral, ethical and political questions in the West.

This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of realism, postmodernism, literary theory and popular fiction before focusing on the careers of four prominent novelists.

This book seeks to include among accounts of modern lyric poetry a theory of the poem's relation to the unintelligible.

The work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery is analysed in order to discern the patterns which may operate across a broad range of examples, as well as to consider the variety of ways repetition can structure a poetic text.

This work, through analysis of metaphors of conciousness, traces the significance of representations of knowledge, gender and social class, revealing how writers conceived of the self in modern literature.

This title suggests that although the treatment and evasion of the Holocaust in certain postmodern texts often seems irresponsible, the texts have a deep affinity with ethical theories anchored in notions of obsession, persecution and trauma.

The relationship of writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence. This book redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between literary practice and dominant economic institutions and ideas.

Through interdisciplinary engagement with fiction and popular culture, this book explores the philsophical, social, and aesthetic implications of twentieth-century America's obsession with eliminating waste.

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 Novelist.