This monograph is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s sensitivity and deep word hoard to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić developed an "internal GPS" and a minimalist style, which helped him to establish a critical sense of home and to create a culture of sustainability.

This book analyzes Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novels The Handmaid’s Tale, The MaddAddam trilogy, The Heart Goes Last and The Testaments from perspective of posthuman theory in the Anthropocene. Atwood shows the evolution of Western society’s maladies and her own position and response to the changes

It combines the investigation of David Mitchell’s novels with the introduction of a new critical concept to literary studies: empowerment. It probes the author’s strategies and agenda of empowering fiction on the levels of discourse, the characters.

This book is the first book-length academic study of historical crime fiction that explores Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The novels discussed are located at the intersection of crime fiction and Holocaust Literature. The book discusses questions of form and genre, and explores the possibilities of justice after the Holocaust

Delving into the landscapes and politics of 20th and 21st century Yorkshire, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry asks: what is Yorkshire poetry? In other words, what is it that connects poems by Larkin, Hughes, Armitage and Mort, whilst setting them apart from poetry of other UK regions?

Offering pluralised and context-sensitives approaches to temporalities in and of crises, this volume explores how literature’s engagement with crises suggests both the need for and possibility of rethinking ‘time'.