Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called Literature establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting…

This text provides an account of the relationship between popular music and youth culture. Beginning with a review of literature originating in sociology, cultural and media studies, it goes on…

This original study offers clear but conceptually sophisticated readings of Keats’s major poems, informed by contemporary literary theory. The book focuses on the relationship between narrative in Keats’s poetry and…

This book describes what a normal day looks like for a rider both on and off the track. As well as offering some teachable moments, it shows how much fun…

This book engages with literary, philosophical, historical and sociological perspectives on suicide, while also engaging with medical humanities and offering detailed analyses of key literary texts from the long twentieth…

This collection reviews the wealth of research on ways to promote biodiversity within agricultural landscapes, focussing on the range of conservation, restoration and rewilding practices farmers and landowners can adopt.

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. A breath of fresh air in a field that can often…

There are a growing number of scholars who study politics by conducting rich empirical case studies. This book highlights process tracing - a method that plays a central role in…