Books published by Bucknell University Press,U.S.

Explores the last six novels by Spains most honoured contemporary woman writer. Its scholarship is enriched by the voice of Calila herself - as Brown called MartIn Gaite, who was a dear friend - as they conversed and exchanged letters during the composition of the novels.

Explores Colombia's violent colonial history by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela), each of which reveals the colonizing elite's reliance on a constant threat of violence for sustaining colonial order.

Analyses literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s. Raynor reads work by Luiz Ruffato, Wilson Bueno, Roberto Bolano, Joao Gilberto Noll, Joao Gilberto Noll, and Bernardo Carvalho to reveal representations of the human experience that unsettle conventionally understood links between locality and geographical place.

Unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration libertine drama in Britain's eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Daniel Gustafson traces libertine drama's persistent appeal for writers and performers wrestling with the powers of the emergent liberal subject and the tensions of that subject with sovereign absolutism.

Traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel's narrative form and to the modern organization of literature.