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Writing London
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 110.00Following on from Julian Wolfrey's successful Writing London (1998), this second volume extends Wolfrey's original argument that a new urban sensibility in the nineteenth century had been developed which established new ways of writing about and responding to the city. Writing London - Volume 2 explores through a range of readings of twentieth-century... more...
Modern North American Criticism and Theory
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 35.80Focusing on the growth and expansion of critical trends and methodologies, this book offers an introduction to the literary theory in North America. With essays addressing key figures in their historical and cultural contexts, it depicts the change, transformation, and the quest for and affirmation of multiple cultural voices and identities. more...
Modern European Criticism and Theory
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 39.78Providing an overview of literary theory in Europe, this guide presents the ideas within European 'theory', focusing on the thought of major voices in poetics, philosophy, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, as well as in literary and cultural studies. The essays examine how conceptions of subjectivity, identity, and gender have been questioned. more...
Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 35.80A guide to the development of literary theory in Britain and Ireland, this book is aimed at advanced undergraduates, as well as academics working in the field. Beginning with Coleridge and Arnold, it contains essays that address the rise and significance of poetics, and literary and cultural studies. Each essay includes a further reading list. more...
Writing London
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land . more...
Literature, In Theory
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 120.00Jacques Derrida has argued about the difference between literature and theory that despite its institutional status, part of its ‘institution’ is the right of literature to say anything. Literature cannot be defined as such, and as soon as one seeks to produce a reading of the literary, complications arise. . Yet despite its institutional... more...
Dickens's London
Edinburgh University Press 2012; US$ 112.00This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its... more...
Writing London
Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 158.00Writing London asks the reader to consider how writers sought to respond to the nature of London. Drawing on literary and architectural theory and psychoanalysis, Julian Wolfreys looks at a variety of nineteenth-century writings to consider various literary modes of productions as responses to the city. Beginning with an introductory survey of... more...
Queer Theories
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 38.00Queer Theories explores and aggressively expands the provocative new field of sexual identity studies. It covers the history of the terms 'gay' and 'lesbian' as identity categories, the reclamation of the word 'queer' as a term of radical self-identification, and the recent challenges to sexual identity studies posed by transgender and bisexual... more...
Peter Ackroyd
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 192.00Peter Ackroyd: The Ludic and Labyrinthine Text offers the reader the first major critical study in English of one of Britain's most inventive, playful and significant writers of the twentieth century. This study playfully, yet rigorously engages with these aspects of literary stylistics and personal and national identity so important in Ackroyd's... more...









