A book on the novels of Emile Zola. The first part covers most of the writing of the Rougon-Macquart novel sequence and the second part turns to the end of…

Explores the rise of department stores and supermarkets of the United States, France, and Great Britain. This book claims that, despite their differences, the two institutions belong together as emblematic…

When something called theory first broke onto the seemingly stagnant scene of literary studies, it offered bright new ways and fields for critical reading: new methods and subjects, and also…

This volume presents the meditations of seven well-known French thinkers on the special relations of their own intellectual pursuit to Judaism.

A fascinating study examining the diversities and novelties of contemporary parenthood in the light of a range of literary and philosophical works ranging from Greek tragedies to contemporary psychoanalytic theory…

Originally published in 1990, Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language explores the relationship between madness and the disruption of linguistic and structural norms in Virginia Woolf’s modernist novels.

How often do we ask ourselves, ‘What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?’ In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner explores these questions and…