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Cultural Studies

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Cosmopolitan Love

Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

By Sijia Yao
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies

Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries

Effeminism

The Economy of Colonial Desire

By Revathi Krishnaswamy
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Establishes the homosocial dynamics of colonial desire as evidenced in Orientalist narrative

Mongrel Nation

Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain

By Ashley Dawson
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Caribbean Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

The first cultural history of African, Asian, and Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom from 1948 to the present

The Sarah Siddons Audio Files

Romanticism and the Lost Voice

By Judith Pascoe
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Winner of the Barnard Hewitt Award and a Joe A. Callaway Award Honorable Mention

Imagining Adoption

Essays on Literature and Culture

Edited by Marianne Novy
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Engaging essays on the theme of adoption as seen in literary works and in writings by adoptees, adoptive parents, and adoption activists

Salome's Modernity

Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression

By Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Theater and Performance

A study of Oscar Wilde's Salomé in modernist and postmodernist literature and culture

The Lives of Machines

The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture

By Tamara S. Ketabgian
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, European History, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Intellectual History

Expanded views of the connection between humans and machines in the Victorian era

The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes and Other Eccentric Readings

By Michael Atkinson
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, British and Irish Literatures

Applies a range of postmodern literary approaches to Conan Doyle's classic stories

Reading Adoption

Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama

By Marianne Novy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures

A literary scholar who is an adult adoptee delves into one of the enduring themes of literature—the child raised by other parents

The Cat and the Human Imagination

Feline Images from Bast to Garfield

By Katharine M. Rogers
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, American Literature, European Literature, Cultural Studies

An intelligent, amusing, and affectionate look at cats in history, literature, and art

Tourists with Typewriters

Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing

By Patrick Holland & Graham Huggan
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures

Looks at how contemporary travel writing reflects gender, cultural history, and social class

Brian Friel in Conversation

Edited by Paul Delaney
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood

Everyday English 1500-1700

A Reader

Edited by Bridget Cusack
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature

A rich compendium of historical texts that reflect the English spoken by ordinary citizens of the early modern period

Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900

Patriots, Nation, and Empire

By Moira Ferguson
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies

What Black Beauty and other books by women of this period reveal about their notions of nation, identity, and empire

Shakespeare in Theory

The Postmodern Academy and the Early Modern Theater

By Stephen Bretzius
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Witty and engaging essays on the links between contemporary literary theory and Shakespearean theater

Contesting Cultural Rhetorics

Public Discourse and Education, 1890-1900

By Margaret J. Marshall
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, American Literature, Education

Flowers in the Dustbin

Culture, Anarchy, and Postwar England

By Neil Nehring
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Sociology

Explores the connection between high literary culture and popular culture and argues for cultural anarchism as a form of creative resistance.

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