This groundbreaking study of Franz Kafka's legacy-to be published during the centenary of his death in 2024-explores Kafka's life and influence in an entirely new and dynamic way. This new biography of Franz Kafka's life, literature, and legacy will be published for the centenary of Kafka's death in 2024. It is the first major biography of Kafka, a titan of international literature studied and enjoyed by thousands around the world, in some years. ...

"With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Virginia Woolf Handbook is designed for post-secondary students, scholars, and common readers. Feminist to the core, each chapter of this volume examines an aspect of Woolf's achievement and legacy. Each chapter offers an overview that is at once fresh and thoroughly grounded in prior scholarship. Six sections focus on Woolf's life, her texts, her experiments, her as...

"This first material history of how Shakespeare has been used in wartime tells a fresh and compelling story about how he has been "recruited" across centuries of military activity, drawing upon scholarly expertise in Shakespeare and War Studies, first-hand experience from public military figures and insights from prominent theatre directors"--

"A complete guide to the comics work of the writer Alan Moore, this book helps readers explore one of the genre's most important, compelling and subversive writers. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers: Moore's comics career - from his early work in 2000AD to his breakthrough graphic novels and his later battles with the industry; Moore's major works - including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Saga of the Swamp Thing and Promethea;...

"When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother-feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain-she made a suicide attempt at twenty years old that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. After nearly four years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover from the experience, Suzanne came to understand her suffering...

This volume carves out a new area of study, the 'industrial Gothic', placing the genre in dialogue with the literature of the Industrial Revolution. The book explores a significant subset of transatlantic nineteenth-century literature that employs the tropes, themes and rhetoric of the Gothic to portray the real-life horrors of factory life, framing the Industrial Revolution as a site of Gothic excess and horror. Using archival materials from the...

"Why did poets from the United States, Britain, and Ireland gather in a small town in Italy during the early years of Mussolini's regime? These writers were--or became--some of the most famous poets of the twentieth century. What brought them together, and what did they hope to achieve? The Poets of Rapallo is about the conversations, collaborations, and disagreements among Ezra and Dorothy Pound, W.B. and George Yeats, Richard Aldington and Brigit...