The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature

This new Cambridge History is the first major history of twentieth-century English literature to cover the full range of writing in England, Scotland,Wales and Ireland. The volume also explores the impact of writing from the former colonies on English literature of the period and analyses the waysin which conventional literary genres were shaped and inflected by the new cultural technologies of radio, cinema and television. This new volume is a major event for anyone concerned with twentieth-century literature, its cultural context and its relation to the contemporary.

 

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Looking Glasses and Neverlands - Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children's Literature

This groundbreaking study introduces and explores Lacan’s complex theories of subjectivity and desire through close readings of canonical children’s books such as Charlotte’s Web, Stellaluna, Holes, Tangerine, and The Chocolate War. Looking Glasses and Neverlands thus provides an introduction to an increasingly influential body of difficult work while making the claim that children’s textual encounters are as significant as their existential ones in constituting their subjectivities and giving shape to their desires. 

The Great Ocean of Knowledge: The Influence of Travel Literature on the Work of John Locke

The philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) owned one of the most extensive collections of travel literature held in any private scholarly library of his day. It is an interest which seems very much at odds with Locke's reputation as an empirical philosopher because travellers' reports have acquired a reputation for unreliability.

The Gaelic-English Dictionary - A Dictionary of Scottish Gaelic

This Scots, Gaelic-English Dictionary fulfils a keenly-felt need for a modern, comprehensive dictionary. The numerous examples of usage and idiom in this work have been modelled on examples culled from modern literature, and encompass many registers ranging from modern colloquial speech, to more elaborate literary constructions.

Nothing is "pure" in America, and, indeed, the rich ethnic mix that constitutes our society accounts for much of its amazing vitality. Werner Sollors's new book takes a wide-ranging look at the role of "ethnicity" in American literature and what that literature has said--and continues to say--about our diverse culture. Ethnic consciousness, he contends, is a constituent feature of modernism, not modernism's antithesis.