British and Irish Literatures

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Cosmopolitan Love

Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

By Sijia Yao
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies

Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries

Effeminism

The Economy of Colonial Desire

By Revathi Krishnaswamy
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Establishes the homosocial dynamics of colonial desire as evidenced in Orientalist narrative

Latinx Shakespeares

Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater

By Carla Della Gatta
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures

Investigates more than 140 Latinx-themed productions or adaptations of Shakespeare in the United States

Owning Performance | Performing Ownership

Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage

By Jane Wessel
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Law, Intellectual Property, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures

How playwrights, actors, and theater managers vied for control over the performance of popular plays after the passage of England’s first copyright law

Diaphanous Bodies

Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature

By Jeremy Colangelo
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Modern Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Analyzing the invisible abled body through the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and Bowen

Everyone’s Theater

Literature and Daily Life in England, 1860–1914

By Michael Meeuwis
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature

Connects the practices of the professional Victorian stage to the world of the amateur theatricals across England and its empire

Victorian Bestseller

The Life of Dinah Craik

By Karen Bourrier
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, British and Irish Literatures

An engaging, rigorously researched biography of popular 19th century novelist Dinah Craik
 

Mongrel Nation

Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain

By Ashley Dawson
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Caribbean Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

The first cultural history of African, Asian, and Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom from 1948 to the present

On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights in Japan

By Judith Pascoe
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, Japan

Reveals how and why Brontë’s novel won a huge following in Japan and has been reimagined by writers and manga artists

 

A Tale of Two Capitalisms

Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Supritha Rajan
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, Economics, History of Economic Thought, History, European History

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century British capitalism, its architects, and its critics

The Real and the Sacred

Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

By Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, History, European History, Religion, Art, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, American Literature

A cultural history of representations of Jesus in nineteenth-century European and American fiction and visual art

The Sarah Siddons Audio Files

Romanticism and the Lost Voice

By Judith Pascoe
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Winner of the Barnard Hewitt Award and a Joe A. Callaway Award Honorable Mention

Imagining Adoption

Essays on Literature and Culture

Edited by Marianne Novy
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Engaging essays on the theme of adoption as seen in literary works and in writings by adoptees, adoptive parents, and adoption activists

Salome's Modernity

Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression

By Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Theater and Performance

A study of Oscar Wilde's Salomé in modernist and postmodernist literature and culture

The Lives of Machines

The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture

By Tamara S. Ketabgian
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, European History, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Intellectual History

Expanded views of the connection between humans and machines in the Victorian era

The Novel as Event

By Mario Ortiz Robles
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Literary Criticism and Theory

Exploring the importance of language in the Victorian novel

The Adventures of Philip

On His Way through the World Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him by

By William Thackeray
Edited by Judith Law Fisher & Peter L. Shillingsburg
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature
Series: The Thackeray Edition

Thackeray's last completed novel, edited and with commentary by a leading textual scholar

Fictions of Affliction

Physical Disability in Victorian Culture

By Martha Stoddard Holmes
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain

Sails of the Herring Fleet

Essays on Beckett

By Herbert Blau
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Reflections on Samuel Beckett by renowned director and theorist Herbert Blau

The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes and Other Eccentric Readings

By Michael Atkinson
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, British and Irish Literatures

Applies a range of postmodern literary approaches to Conan Doyle's classic stories

Reflections on Beckett

A Centenary Celebration

Edited by Anna McMullan & S. E. Wilmer
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Renowned international scholars offer perspectives on one of the world's most challenging playwrights

The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour

By William Thackeray
Edited by Edgar F. Harden & Peter L. Shillingsburg
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature
Series: The Thackeray Edition

Engaging lectures on Swift, Pope, Fielding and others by this classic British author

Reading Adoption

Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama

By Marianne Novy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures

A literary scholar who is an adult adoptee delves into one of the enduring themes of literature—the child raised by other parents

The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language

By Laura (Riding) Jackson
Edited by John Nolan
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, 20th Century Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Poets on Poetry

Brings together four decades of largely unpublished work by Jackson, exploring the rationale for her renunciation of poetry in 1941 after two decades as a poet

The Snobs of England and Punch's Prize Novelists

By William Thackeray
Edited by Edgar F. Harden & Peter L. Shillingsburg
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures
Series: The Thackeray Edition

A critical edition of two sharply satirical works

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