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In order of: Series Title Author ISBN Subject Date (oldest first) Date (newest first) Show these titles as: a list a table a list with reviews (published titles only) Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye Stephen Kite After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community Patrick ffrench After Reception Theory: Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain, 1869-1935 Lucia Aiello August 2013 Anglo-German Interactions in the Literature of the 1890s Patrick Bridgwater Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs Edited by Edith Hall and Amanda Wrigley The Art of Ana Clavel: Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires Jane Elizabeth Lavery 2014 Artful Seduction: Homosexuality and the Problematics of Exile Karl Posso The Artificial Self: The Psychology of Hippolyte Taine Hilary Nias Assuming the Light: The Parisian Literary Apprenticeship of Miguel Angel Asturias Stephen Henighan Authorial Echoes: Textuality and Self-Plagiarism in the Narrative of Luigi Pirandello Catherine O’Rawe Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology: Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti Edited by Martin McLaughlin and Elisabetta Tarantino 2014 The Backward Look: Memory and the Writing Self in France 1580-1920 Angelica Goodden Bakhtin between East and West: Cross-Cultural Transmission Karine Zbinden Baudelaire: Individualism, Dandyism and the Philosophy of History Bernard Howells Berceo’s ‘Vida de Santa Oria’: Text, Translation and Commentary Anthony Lappin Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: A Life of Culture Malcolm Cook Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy — A Festschrift for John Woodhouse Edited by Martin McLaughlin and Peter Hainsworth Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism: A Festschrift for Peter Brand Edited by Martin McLaughlin The Burgtheater and Austrian Identity: Theatre and Cultural Politics in Vienna, 1918-38 Robert Pyrah The Cervantean Heritage: Reception and Influence of Cervantes in Britain Edited by J. A. G. Ardila Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 Clive Scott Chicago of the Balkans: Budapest in Hungarian Literature 1900-1939 Gwen Jones Childhood as Memory, Myth and Metaphor: Proust, Beckett, and Bourgeois Catherine Crimp Classical Rhetoric and the German Poet: 1620 to the Present — A Study of Opitz, Bürger and Eichendorff Anna Carrdus Closer to the Wild Heart: Essays on Clarice Lispector Edited by Cláudia Pazos Alonso and Claire Williams Cobras e Son: Papers on the Text, Music and Manuscripts of the ‘Cantigas de Santa Maria’ Edited by Stephen Parkinson Conceptions of the Absurd: From Surrealism to Chestov’s and Fondane’s Existential Thought Ramona Fotiade Condé in Context: Ideological Change in Seventeenth-Century France Mark Bannister Consuming Autobiographies: Reading and Writing the Self in Post-War France Claire Boyle Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual Edited by Peter Mackridge and Eleni Yannakakis Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic: The Creation of Literary Space Danielle E. Hipkins Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and Natural-Philosophical Poetry Kathryn Banks Crossing Fields in Modern Spanish Culture Edited by Federico Bonaddio and Xon de Ros A Cultural Citizen of the World: Sigmund Freud’s Knowledge and Use of British and American Writings S. S. Prawer Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-Century Italy Edited by Guido Bonsaver and Robert Gordon Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures Edited by Tristan Kay, Martin McLaughlin and Michelangelo Zaccarello Dante the Lyric and Ethical Poet: Dante lirico e etico Edited by Zygmunt G. Barański and Martin McLaughlin Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity Edited by Sara Fortuna, Manuele Gragnolati and Jürgen Trabant Decolonizing Modernism: James Joyce and the Development of Spanish American Fiction José Luis Venegas Defective Inspectors: Crime Fiction Pastiche in Late-Twentieth-Century French Literature Simon Kemp Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages Edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Tristan Kay, Elena Lombardi and Francesca Southerden Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature Lisa Downing Diderot and the Body Angelica Goodden Dissonance in the Republic of Letters: The Querelle des Gluckistes et des Piccinnistes Mark Darlow Dream Cities: Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-Century France Greg Kerr Edmond Jabès: The Hazard of Exile Steven Jaron Emile Zola and the Artistry of Adaptation Kate Griffiths England and the Avignon Popes: The Practice of Diplomacy in Late Medieval Europe Karsten Plöger English Responses to French Poetry 1880-1940: Translation and Mediation Jennifer Higgins Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism Edited by David Adams and Galin Tihanov The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso: Theory and Practice Maggie Günsberg Eugenio Montale: The Poetry of the Later Years Éanna Ó Ceallacháin Examining Whiteness: Reading Clarice Lispector through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison Lucia Villares Experiment and Metaphysics: Towards a Resolution of the Cosmological Antinomies Edgar Wind The Extreme In-Between: Jean Paulhan’s Place in the Twentieth Century Anna-Louise Milne The Feminine in the Prose of Andrey Platonov Philip Bullock Force from Nietzsche to Derrida Clare Connors Form and Feeling in Modern Literature: Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy Edited by William Baker with Isobel Armstrong French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War Nicholas White From Art Nouveau to Surrealism: Belgian Modernity in the Making Edited by Nathalie Aubert, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture and Patrick McGuinness Gender, Nation and the Formation of the Twentieth-Century Mexican Literary Canon Sarah E. L. Bowskill German Women’s Writing of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Future Directions in Feminist Criticism Edited by Helen Fronius and Anna Richards Goethe and Patriarchy: Faust and the Fates of Desire James Simpson *Goethe’s Poetry and the Philosophy of Nature: Gott und Welt* 1798-1827 Regina Sachers 2014 Gypsies and Orientalism in German Literature and Anthropology of the Long Nineteenth Century Nicholas Saul Heine und die Weltliteratur Edited by T. J. Reed and Alexander Stillmark The History of Portuguese Literature in English Translation: The Medieval Galician Portuguese Lyric and the Theatre of Gil Vicente Patricia Odber de Baubeta 2014 Identity and Transformation in the Plays of Alexis Piron Derek Connon Image and Word: Reflections of Art and Literature Edited by Antonella Braida and Giuliana Pieri Image, Eye and Art in Calvino: Writing Visibility Edited by Birgitte Grundtvig, Martin McLaughlin and Lene Waage Petersen In the Light of Contradiction: Desire in the Poetry of Federico García Lorca Roberta Ann Quance In(ter)discipline: New Languages for Criticism Edited by Gillian Beer, Malcolm Bowie and Beate Perrey Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century French Culture: Wealth, Knowledge and the Family Andrew J. Counter The Inn and the Traveller: Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern European Novel Will McMorran Ismail Kadare: The Writer and the Dictatorship 1957-1990 Peter Morgan Italy in Crisis: 1494 Edited by Jane Everson and Diego Zancani Jacques Derrida and the Institution of French Philosophy Vivienne Orchard John Ruskin’s Continental Tour 1835: The Written Records and Drawings Edited by Keith Hanley and Caroline S. Hull 2014 John Ruskin’s Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters Edited by Rachel Dickinson Jorge Semprún: Writing the European Other Ursula Tidd 2014 Journeys of Remembrance: Memories of the Second World War in French and German Literature, 1960-1980 Kathryn N. Jones Language and Social Structure in Urban France Edited by Mari C. Jones and David Hornsby November 2013 Language, the Novelist and National Identity in Post-Franco Catalonia Kathryn Crameri Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages: German Comic Tales c. 1350-1525** Sebastian Coxon The Libertine’s Nemesis: The Prude in Clarissa and the roman libertin James Fowler Liberty, Equality, Maternity Alison Fell Literary Scholarship in Late Imperial Russia: Rituals of Academic Institutionalization Andy Byford Machado de Assis’s Philosopher or Dog?: From Serial to Book Form Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva Making the Personal Political: Dutch Women Writers 1919-1970 Jane Fenoulhet Medea in Performance 1500-2000 Edited by Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh and Oliver Taplin Mediterranean Travels: Writing Self and Other from the Ancient World to Contemporary Society Edited by Patrick Crowley, Noreen Humble and Silvia Ross Men of their Words: The Poetics of Masculinity in George Sand’s Fiction Nigel Harkness Metaphor in Dante David Gibbons Method and Variation: Narrative in Early Modern French Thought Edited by Emma Gilby and Paul White May 2013 Michel Foucault: Form and Power Dan Beer Modernist Song: The Poetry of Tristan Tzara Stephen Forcer Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution Katherine Astbury Naturalism Redressed: Identity and Clothing in the Novels of Emile Zola Hannah Thompson The Near and Distant God: Poetry, Idealism and Religious Thought from Hölderlin to Eliot Ian Cooper *Negotiating Sainthood: Distinction, Cursilería* and Saintliness in Spanish Novels Kathy Bacon The Object and the Cause in the Vulgate Cycle Miranda Griffin Octavio Paz and T. S. Eliot: Modern Poetry and the Translation of Influence Tom Boll Paul Celan’s Encounters with Surrealism: Trauma, Translation and Shared Poetic Space Charlotte Ryland Paul Valéry and the Voice of Desire Kirsteen Anderson Pessoa in an Intertextual Web: Influence and Innovation Edited by David G. Frier Photobiography: Photographic Self-Writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux, Macé Akane Kawakami November 2013 Phrase and Subject: Studies in Literature and Music Edited by Delia da Sousa Correa The Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze Thomas Baldwin Pierre Klossowski: The Persistence of a Name Ian James Pinter and the Object of Desire: An Approach through the Screenplays Linda Renton Poetry and the Realm of the Public Intellectual: The Alternative Destinies of Gabriela Mistral, Cecília Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos Karen Peña Portuguese Modernisms: Multiple Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts Edited by Steffen Dix and Jerónimo Pizarro Post-War Jewish Women’s Writing in French Lucille Cairns Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture: Rewriting the Divine? Sura Qadiri 2014 The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli Edited by Sara Fortuna and Manuele Gragnolati Pre-Histories and Afterlives: Studies in Critical Method Edited by Anna Holland and Richard Scholar The Present Word: Culture, Society and the Site of Literature — Essays in Honour of Nicholas Boyle Edited by John Walker August 2013 Processes of Literary Creation: Flaubert and Proust Marion Schmid Proust and Joyce in Dialogue** Sarah Tribout-Joseph Proust Writing Photography: Fixing the Fugitive in À la recherche du temps perdu Áine Larkin Proust, the One, and the Many: Identity and Difference in A la recherche du temps perdu Erika Fülöp Questions of the Liminal in the Fiction of Julio Cortázar Dominic Moran Re-Contextualising East Central European History: Nation, Culture and Minority Groups Edited by Robert Pyrah and Marius Turda Reading Games in the Greek Novel Eleni Papargyriou Reading Literature in Portuguese Cláudia Pazos Alonso and Stephen Parkinson August 2013 Regarding Lost Time: Photography, Identity, and Affect in Proust, Benjamin, and Barthes Katja Haustein Regressive Fictions: Graffigny, Rousseau, Bernardin Robin Howells Reinventing Community: Identity and Difference in Late Twentieth-Century Philosophy and Literature in French Jane Hiddleston The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe: Traditions, Texts and Performance Edited by T. F. Earle and Catarina Fouto 2014 Renaissance Keywords Edited by Ita Mac Carthy Retrospectives: Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural History by Terence Cave Terence Cave, edited by Neil Kenny and Wes Williams Rilke’s Poetics of Becoming Ben Hutchinson Roger Laporte: The Orphic Text Ian Maclachlan Saturn’s Moons: W. G. Sebald — A Handbook Edited by Jo Catling and Richard Hibbitt Science and Literature in Italian Culture: From Dante to Calvino Edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Simon A. Gilson Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile Carmen Bugan Secrets and Puzzles: Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Italian Writing Nicoletta Simborowski Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie I: Dreams of Knowledge Malcolm Bowie November 2013 Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie II: Song Man Malcolm Bowie November 2013 Sensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and Rousseau Ann Lewis The Sentinel: An Incomplete Early Novel by Rebecca West Edited by Kathryn Laing Sex in Imagined Spaces: Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch Caitríona Ní Dhúill Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy Edited by Klaus Vieweg, James Vigus and Kathleen M. Wheeler A Sight for Sore Eyes: The Surrealist Visuality of Jose Maria Hinojosa Jacqueline Rattray November 2013 Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History: Ideology and the Historical Imagination Derek Flitter The Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf Stephen Medcalf, edited by Brian Cummings and Gabriel Josipovici Strands of Utopia: Spaces of Poetic Work in Twentieth-Century France Michael G. Kelly The Strange M. Proust Edited by André Benhaïm Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature Emma Gilby Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics Edited by Helmut Hühn and James Vigus Taboo: Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth-Century France Hannah Thompson June 2013 A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihilism Shane Weller Teresa of Avila’s Autobiography: Authority, Power and the Self in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Spain Elena Carrera Textual Wanderings: The Theory and Practice of Narrative Digression Edited by Rhian Atkin Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays Edited by William Poole and Richard Scholar Théophile Gautier, Orator to the Artists: Art Journalism of the Second Republic James Kearns Towards a New Material Aesthetics: Bakhtin, Genre and the Fates of Literary Theory Alastair Renfrew Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr Dora Osborne Transformative Change in Western Thought: A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood Edited by Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos Translating the Perception of Text: Literary Translation and Phenomenology Clive Scott The Truth of Realism: A Reassessment of the German Novel 1830-1900 John Walker Unbinding Medea: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Classical Myth from Antiquity to the 21st Century Edited by Heike Bartel and Anne Simon Uncharted Depths: Descent Narratives in English and French Children’s Literature Kiera Vaclavik Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Liability of Liberty Bradley Stephens *Victor Hugo, romancier de l’abîme: New Studies on Hugo’s Novels* Edited by J. A. Hiddleston Wilhelm Raabe: Global Themes — International Perspectives Edited by Dirk Göttsche and Florian Krobb Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society Edited by Letizia Panizza Women in Russian Literature after Glasnost: Female Alternatives Carol Adlam Women, Genre and Circumstance: Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Fallaize Edited by Margaret Atack, Diana Holmes, Diana Knight and Judith Still Zola, The Body Modern: Pressures and Prospects of Representation Susan Harrow