Books in the Warwick Studies in the Humanities series

This book brings together a range of works exploring the evolution of cannibalism, literally and metaphorically, diachronically and across disciplines. This collection of thoughtful and though-provoking scholarly contributions sheds light on and suggests the important of cannibalism in understanding human history and social relations.

The essays that comprise this volume evolved from a one-day conference concerned with projecting a British perspective on Umberto Eco, his body of work and the relationship of his fiction to his theoretical texts.

Focusing on the UK and US, the author offers a critique of the cultural stereotyping and political conservatism that have pursued the playwrights in translation. She shows how the choices made by the translators and stagers of Fo and Rame's political theatre reveal attitudes toward foreign cultures and theatre generally and Italy in particular.

This volume spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores the shifts and changes in the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung - coming to terms with the past. The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism.

Examines the developing role Ignazio Silone played in the intellectual life of Zurich. With archival research and critical approach to the pioneering methods and results of German 'Exilforschung,' this book opens the way for further studies on this little known aspect of Italian emigration culture.

This text looks at the effect and influence of Europe and European writers, such as Balzac and Proust, on George Eliot's writings, as seen in novels like "The Mill on the Floss", "Daniel Deronda" and "Middlemarch", and in her own journals.

This volume of essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social, economic and political history from the 17th to the 20th century. The authors aim to establish letters as a category of readable material whose texts reveal information about the context in which they were written.