This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free
definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. Features a brief introduction to …

The Afterlife of Empire is an award-winning investigation on how decolonization transformed
British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through its diplomatic …

The Bildungsroman, or" novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary
studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that …

At the end of the nineteenth century, the zenith of its imperial chauvinism and jingoistic
fervour, Britain's empire was bolstered by a surprising new ideal of manliness, one that …

In the nineteenth century, richly-drawn social fiction became one of England's major cultural
exports. At the same time, a surprising companion came to stand alongside the novel as a …

Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a
provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance …

Shortlisted for the Best Book Prize from the British Society of Literature and Science
Nineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and …

Abstract Representations of perpetual boyhood came to fascinate the late Victorians, partly
because such images could naturalize a new spirit of imperial aggression and new policies …

Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the
morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical …

Stephen Dedalus leaving his family home to begin the slow perambulation through Dublin's
city streets that will take him to the university. As he walks away from the house, Stephen …