Books in the Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series

Turning to contemporary poems about the visual arts that foreground and interrogate a museum setting, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates the particular importance of the museum as a cultural site that is both inspiration and provocation for poets. It bridges the "dual canon" in contemporary poetry by analyzing museum-sponsored anthologies.

This book by examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), and investigates how Prescott's histories inspired fictional adaptations by George A. Henty, H. Rider Haggard, and George Griffith.

This book discusses how Dambudzo Marechera rethinks utopia as an ongoing event that contests institutionalized narratives of the postcolonial self and its relationship to society. Marechera destabilizes the narrative constitution of the self in relation to society to turn towards a radical utopian thinking that empowers the individual.

This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction in the domains of film and literature.

This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who through their writings and social activism addressed social justice, religious dogmatism, the educational system, gender inequality, and tensions in female subjectivity.

The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the ties that bind individual short stories into a cycle. A section on theory approach

This collection of essays examines how Virginia Woolf¿s iconic figure and canonical oeuvre is recycled in contemporary art, literature and popular culture.

This volume of critical essays meditates on the evidence and representation of the ghostlyin the visual, literary, and cultural imagination of Britain, Europe, America, and Asia fromthe nineteenth century to the contemporary.

Explores the significant intellectual impact the philosopher Jean Wahl had on the directions Gilles Deleuze took as a philosopher and writer of a philosophy of experimentation. This book presents the significance of Deleuze's emphasis on "la pragmatique", inspired by Wahl's writings and his fascination with American pluralism and pragmatism.

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.

Historicizing the demand for racial authenticity in 20th-century American literature, Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in "the real negro" transforms the question of what race an author belongs to into a question of what it takes to belong to that race.

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.

This work examines eight Virginia novels against the background of the political and social concerns of the Jacksonian years in which they were written. It argues that authors used familial processes as metephors to discuss critical issues.

Focusing on a group of mid-Victorian narratives by major middle-class writers, this book illustrates the centrality of finance capitalism to the social imagination of the middle-class when the first mass market for the novel was consolidated.

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.