As nineteenth-century realism became more and more intrepid in its pursuit of describing and depicting everyday life, it blurred irrevocably into the caustic an

An expansive study of the novel's moral ambivalence toward procreation, from the nineteenth century through modernism to the present.

Shows how the scientific question, 'Are we automata?', was addressed in late nineteenth-century literature and the arts.

Postcolonial Satire: Indian Fiction and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire positions postcolonial South Asian satiric fiction in both the cutting-edge territor