In the absence of democratic state institutions, eastern European countries were considered to possess only myths of democracy. Working on the premise that democracy is…

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book investigates the style, or ‘voice,’ of English language translations of twentieth-century Latin American writing, including fiction, political speeches, and…

This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period.

Arguing that…

This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and…

As both a politically engaged and stylistically versatile poet, W.H. Auden is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His work is…

This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Despite their contribution to the development of contemporary…

Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to…

These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written in English of French children’s literature. They provide both an overview of developments from the seventeenth…

This two-volume critical history of French children’s literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importance of French children’s…