Disciplining the Imagination examines the relationship between Newtonianism and prose narrative in eighteenth-century Britain. The main argument made in this book is that writers like […]
Category: Literature
The Land of Space and Dust. A Trip to the U.S.A. with 13 Writers 1920-2000
The choice of the United States and its literature limited to just under a century – from 1920 to the present – is anithing but […]
Bad Cities. Literature and Urban Violence
From Larry Kramer’s New York to Roth’s Newark and Colla’s Baghdad, this collection of 15 essays explores how American contemporary literature tackles the issue of […]
Peter Churchill. The Forgotten Novels of a British Secret Agent
After researching the life of a British Special Operation Executive agent, Oliver Churchill, who operated in German occupied Northern Italy in the autumn/ winter of […]
Beyond the Walls of Baghdad
“In the beginning, the beginning of your story, this story that isn’t yours, there was a single article….” These are the opening words: the location […]
We Women of Tehran
Interpreted on stage by Farian Sabahi, We the Women of Tehran – written in the first person from a female standpoint – illustrates the origins […]
Retold Resold Transformed. Crime Fiction in the Global Era
In recent decades crime fiction has enjoyed a creative boom. Although, as Alison Young argues in her book Imagining Crime (1996), crime stories remain strongly […]
Fernando Pessoa. A quasi memoir
Writing a biography about Pessoa is a seemingly impossible task. The great Portuguese poet did not have just one life, but his existence virtually exploded […]
Nation, Community, Self. Female Voices in Scottish Theatre From the Late Sixties to the Present
From the late 1960s until the present day, a significant number of women playwrights have emerged in Scottish theatre who have made a pioneering contribution […]