Books in the Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture series

This study looks at Chesterton's apology for Catholicism in the context of his epoch. It shows how he portrays Catholicism as English and universal at the same time and thus seeks to put an end to its isolation from England's mainstream culture.

The book is a meditation on beauty and Being, interrogating affinities between Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and Virginia Woolf's philosophy of beauty and Being embodied in her oeuvre. It addresses beauty as a mode of being rather than a mere adornment of human existence.

The book focuses on the phenomenon of archaization in literary translation. It shows that archaization is closely linked with nostalgia, both phenomena betraying deep-seated affinities. Archaism, like nostalgia, eclectically and arbitrarily recreates the past, in accordance with dominant political and cultural agendas.

The book is a collection of essays in the language, literature and history of the broadly speaking Celtic world. By bringing together heterogeneous but at the same time fresh insights into diverse areas of Celtic scholarship, this volume aims to invite further research in the fields probed by the contributors in their chapters.

The book studies the relations between time and visual technologies in the oeuvre of Thomas Pynchon within the framework of the culture and politics of time. By examining photography, cinema, tv, computers, and the Internet, it puts Pynchon's engagement with these technologies into a perspective that elucidates their workings as time machines.

The book attempts to cover the misunderstanding of the female characters in Edward Bond's plays. None of the criticism has developed specifically the role of these women as speakers of their social context. The reader will discover female spokeswomen of revolution, committed and suffering mothers but also the personification of evil and wickedness.

This compilation of essays attempts to trace the reasons behind the ongoing popularity of crime fiction. It contains twenty-one original essays written by scholars and practitioners of crime fiction which discuss key concepts in crime fiction studies: generic diversity, the evolution of characters and the growing significance of space and place.

This book discusses the writings of three 20th-century American painters in the context of the historical discourse about inter-art analogies and rivalries. It presents Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley and Ad Reinhardt as true men of letters whose texts confirm the existence of a strong link between their painterly and writerly dispositions.

This discussion of Herbert's poetic sequence, The Temple, explores the connections between poetry, philosophy, and theology. It focuses on the inherent aporias of genuinely gratuitous gift and hospitality. It employs the concepts of the saturated phenomenon and the "dative subject".

The book focuses on popular genres of romance, fantasy, science fiction, dystopia, thriller, and What-if historical fiction. It uses semiotics, structuralism and narratology to consider genre mixture, intertextuality, and world models. The author analyses among others the work of William Golding, Michel Faber, C. S. Lewis, and Michael Crichton.

This book examines the role of parody in the English poetry and prose of the eighteenth century. It focuses on polyphony, intertextuality and deconstruction in parodic genres, in Alexander Pope's satires and John Gay's mock-pastoral poems. It examines the key role of parody in the novels by Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne.

The book demonstrates the thematic unity underlying Carter's fiction and non-fiction, highlighting their interdependence and demonstrating how her texts persistently examine existing theories of pleasure from many different angles. In this way, Carter's works enter into dialogue with numerous pleasure connoisseurs, theorists as well as writers.

By close readings of poems and by theoretical analysis involving theology, philosophy and literary criticism, this collection of essays explores poetry's contribution to the expression of theological wonder, which can occur both in ordinary life and in the natural world, or can arise in the context of explicitly supernatural mystical experience.

The author analyses the multi-layered and multidimensional theme of identity construction recurring in Tony Harrison's work from the seventies onwards looking at the way it evolved throughout the years. The book examines identity as present in Harrison's verse in the frame of sociological and philosophical thought.

This book addresses financial, social, historical, and cultural debt in postcolonial fiction. It examines how literary characters including servants, fallen women, and cultural outsiders pay or refuse to pay the debts imposed upon them, and includes direct comparisons between debt in fiction and current issues of debt in the economy world-wide.

The book looks at the uses of the ordinary in the short stories of T.F. Powys and V.S. Pritchett. It observes two models the theme is explored in: the violation (ekstasis), and the preservation (stasis). It explores the use of the theme in terms of: characterization, events, setting, narrativity, eventfulness, causality and narrative rhetoric.

This study presents the complex phenomenon of Afro-Caribbean poetry in English, ranging from Jamaican classic dub poetry of the 1970s to (Black) British post-dub verse of the 2000s. To do so, the monograph has endeavoured to showcase the literary continuum, as represented by Jamaican, Jamaican-British, and ultimately (Black) British writers.

The book offers comparative analysis of diverse Darwinism-inspired discourses such as post-modern novels, science fiction, popular science and nature films. Special attention is paid to Darwin's problem with human ancestry, Darwinism and the humanities, and the lives of Charles and Emma Darwin as contemporary myths.

This collection of essays is devoted to the intersections of poetic speech, literary criticism, theology and philosophy. The emphasis falls on the connection between poetry and Logos, word and flesh in poetry from the seventeenth century to the present day.

This interdisciplinary study of the post-industrial American city examines the linkages between urban regeneration policies, citizenship, and social justice in the neoliberal city. It foregrounds social capital, community building, and sustainability as key discourses and practices of re-configuring and re-inhabiting the urban.

This book is a study of the amorphous, fragmented and digressive world of G. G. Byron's poetic works, and the themes of mutability, deformation and transgression, referred to as madness. It analyses the author's conscious process of self-fashioning, narrative dis-orientation and the dismantling of cultural pre-conceptions.

This volume contains a selection of articles focussed on analysis and interpretation of Ali Smith's literary output. It aims to explore key areas of her work including language, identity, narrative structure and time.

The study examines the sartorial production of feminine identities in 20th-century Britain.Cognitive metaphor theory is applied to demostrate the importance of clothing in public assertion of gender identities.