Literary Studies / English Literature (20th & 21st century)

This collection presents a series of autobiographical meditations by Ilan Stavans on how language defines every aspect of our life.

In American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle, Kirsten MacLeod examines the rise of a new print media form – the little magazine – and its relationship to the transformation of American cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century.

Extraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.

This book examines the letters, essays, and fiction of Joseph Conrad through an Aristotelian lens.

Addressing current debates in museum studies, cultural studies, art history, and literary criticism, Enchanted Objects develops an extensive theory of how contemporary literature engages with and relates to aesthetic objects.

Patrick O’Neill approaches five of Kafka’s novels and short stories by considering the many translations of each work as a single, multilingual “macrotext.”

In this unique book, Patrick O’Neill charts the international history of translations of the untranslatable Finnegans Wake.

Applying media theory to late-Victorian print, Making Pictorial Print shows how popular illustrated magazines developed a new design interface that encouraged dynamic engagement and media literacy in the British public.

Beowulf as Children’s Literature brings together a group of scholars and creators to address important issues of adapting the Old English poem into textual and pictorial forms that appeal to children, past and present.

The Reception of Northrup Frye takes a thorough accounting of the presence of Frye in existing works and argues against Frye’s diminishing status as an important critical voice.

Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.

The Chronology of Revolution is a fresh, outward-facing history of the Communist Party of Great Britain with a compelling lesson for today’s socialist activists.

You don’t know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.