'I have heard no end of tales of his strength, his audacity, his fidelity... incorruptible! It is
indeed a name of honour for the Capataz of the Cargadores of Sulaco.'One of the greatest …

One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and
British modernism, Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the …

The writers who are the focus of this study-Lawrence, Woolf, Bennett, Conrad, Forster,
Galsworthy, and James-either admired Dostoevsky or feared him as monster who might …

What does modern British and Irish literature have to do with French impressionist painting?
And what does Henry James have to do with the legal dispute between John Ruskin and …

Acheraiou challenges postcolonial discourse analysis and proposes a new model of
interpretation that resituates the historical, ideological and conceptual denseness of the …

Modernist Melancholia explores modernism's melancholic roots through the detailed
discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. Melancholia ties modernism to the 19th …

The nineteenth century was the heyday of travel, with Britons continually reassessing their
own culture in relation to not only the colonized but also other Europeans, especially the …

This book explores the nexus between railways and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)-the
first modern war, and one in which the railways played a key part. Felix Patrikeeff and Harry …

Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys explores the
postcolonial significance of Rhys's modernist period work, which depicts an urban scene …

Монография исследует миф о России в британской культуре и его интерпретации в
художественной литературе. Важными задачами книги являются характеристика …