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Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press, 2011. This book is the third in a trilogy of studies by the author of race and imperialism in British culture from about 1800 to the modern era; this volume focuses on various contradictions inherent in racist and imperialist ideology by examining racial stereotypes in Victorian literature and culture that helped to justify British… Read more about this item

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2017. This book is about the human disaster of suicide, how literature records, configures, and imagines survivors' responses, and the impulse to imagine one's own suicide as peculiarly and pervasively human; it concerns 20th and 21st literature and how it represents the ultimate assertion of selfhood at its decisive end (black covers… Read more about this item

Cambridge, England, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2017. This is a study of British detective fiction and other kinds of crime writing in order to show how crime and criminality were understood and represented between the wars (black covers with gold lettering on spine; gray pictorial dust jacket with white & yellow lettering and photo on the front; a bright, clean,… Read more about this item

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1987. This critical study of the rise of the novel argues that fiction written by women in 18th and 19th century England, rather than being incidental to the events of history, paved the way for the rise of the modern middle class (black covers with gold lettering on spine; dust jacket has… Read more about this item

Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press, 1952. This history of Roman comedy is primarily a study of the work of two comic poets, Plautus and Terence; it examines the background and history of Roman comedy, the staging and presentation of the plays, the nature of the comedies, including stage conventions, plot structures, suspense and irony, delineation of character, moral tone… Read more about this item