This 1995 book analyses of the semiotics of death and dying in twentieth-century fiction, history and culture.

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Recent years have seen a burgeoning of novels that respond to the environmental issues we currently face. Among these, Louise Squire defines environmental crisi

This book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and Americ