Product Description: Judge Baltasar Garzón achieved international prestige in 1998 when he pursued the perpetrators of crimes committed in Argentina against Spanish citizens and began proceedings for the arrest of the Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet...read more

Product Description: Bringing together a number of uncollected essays, a selection of autobiographical poems, and a striking work that brings together both critical and creative modes of writing, Hostage of the Word plots the intriguing trajectory of John Schad’s very distinctive work over the last 20 years...read more

Product Description: A startling critical-creative examination of one of the 20th Century's leading thinkers, The Late Walter Benjamin is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the life and death of Walter Benjamin with the days, hours and minutes of a working-class council estate on the edge of London in post-war Austerity England...read more

Product Description: Well this is it: the end, last gasp, final straw; in short, the concluding dark volume in a series of books some idiot called ‘critical inventions.’ Let us be like wry Oscar Wilde, said the idiot, and dream of the critic as artist, or at least as someone else, as someone other than who we had thought he was, or been taught he was...read more

Product Description: "Each century," wrote Charles Dickens "[is] more amazed by the century following it than by all the centuries before."  Victorians in theory explores the startling conceit that nineteenth-century poetry is amazed by twentieth-century literary theory...read more

Product Description: Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead – this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a mystery that began more than ten years earlier, in 1968, when Derrida, a philosopher, visits Oxford and there, before the very eyes of the Philosophy Sub-Faculty, he dies, several times...read more

Is there life after theory? If the death of the Author has now been followed by the death of the Theorist, what's left? This book explores such riddles using interviews with four theorists who are left, each a major figure in their own right: Jacques Derrida, Frank Kermode, Toril Moi, and Christopher Norris.

Clough, argues Schad, never gets in the way of the world, or worlds, of which he writes. And these worlds are many: ranging from the orthodox world of the Anglican Oxford that Clough famously abandons, through the turbulent worlds of Paris and Rome that Clough visits in the wake of the revolutionary events of 1848, to the quietly desperate world of Clough's final years. For Schad, though, Clough's defining world is the very strange world of continental thought, a world which makes him a most un-Victorian Victorian.

Product Description: The book begins with Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” and its withdrawing “sea of faith” as time and again Schad finds the figure of the Christian to be beached, a fish out of water—a queer fish, in fact. This, then, is a book that is all at sea—beginning with Charles Darwin’s voyage to “the extreme point of Christendom” that was South America, and ending with James Joyce and Jacques Derrida in “the same boat,” the same ruined, but sea-going, boat that is the 20th-century Western Church...read more

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Reveals the dark underside of Charles Dickens's work in the light of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Exploring transgressions and perversities in his work, this collection of essays focuses on the marginal figures (the Jew, the corpse), improbable concerns (idleness, insomnia), unlikely spaces (the crypt, the shop window) and radical voices (republican, homoerotic) in his novels. The authors of these essays consider Dickens to be the most central and also the most "ex-centric" Victorian figure, and suggest that his work provides a rich field of study for feminist, poststructuralist and psychoanalytic readings.