This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering a

Provides a new way of reading Western tragedy alongside texts from the postcolonial world so as to cross-illuminate each other.

This Companion provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Covering subjects from disability and diaspora to the su

This groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars

This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentiet