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Middlebrow Mission: Pearl S. Buck's American China
Is Pearl S. Buck America's »number-one expert on China«? This study examines Buck's unique fictional engagement with (neo-)missionary cultures in the United States and China.
The Intelligible Metropolis
Urban Mentality in Contemporary London Novels
An exploration of urban and London mentality by way of twenty London novels published during the Blair era.
Wounds and Words
Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction
Trauma re-examined – at the intersections of literature and psychiatry, of Romanticism and postmodernism.
Chronotopes of the Uncanny
Time and Space in Postmodern New York Novels. Paul Auster's »City of Glass« and Toni Morrison's »Jazz«
Who is afraid of Freud? The uncanny as a crucial trope of postmodern metropolitan literature.
Setting the Record Queer
Rethinking Oscar Wilde's »The Picture of Dorian Gray« and Virginia Woolf's »Mrs. Dalloway«
A study that calls for a constant interaction with literary categories and points out new perspectives for the reception of two classics.
Camp Comforts
Reparative Gay Literature in Times of AIDS
»Camp« as a coping strategy: AIDS in queer literature.
Mittelbau-Dora: American and German Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp
Literature, Visual Media and the Culture of Memory from 1945 to the Present
The Nazi technologies discovered by Americans in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp have been taken up in literature and movies many times. The contributions to this volume show the different forms of remembrance culture in Germany and the USA.