English Literature

Barbara Hardy has concentrated on the late period from 1900 to 1916, observing language and theme in close readings of The Ambassadors, The Wings o...

Genre is a key means by which we categorize the many forms of literature and culture. But it is also much more than that: in talk and writing, in m...

This is an exploration of Kafka’s work in the context both of his own complicated world - that of a Czech Jew writing in German within a crumbling ...

This book provides a clear account of the development and the scope of the sonnet form in Britain.

Nicholas Royle presents a new Forster – one that has emerged from the posthumous publication of his explicitly homosexual fiction (since 1971) and ...

Br>dh. Lawrence’s reputation as a central figure of modernism has long been secure, but this new reading looks at his work in the light of a ser...

This classic guide offers a thorough and accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-depth coverage of literary analysis....

William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world. This select...

The works of C. S. Lewis appeal widely to a variety of audiences. Lewis is probably most famous for the best-selling chronicles of narnia, though W...

After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own per...

After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own per...

Black Feminist Thought | ISBN: 9781138302143 | Bind: Paper Back| Publication Year : 2017

This edited collection is about the application of English grammar and specialises in 'functional' and'corpus' approaches, approaches which are inc...

this study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particularly at the natur...

This new study of Andrew Marvell offers a state-of-the-art guide to one of the most intriguing and elusive poets of the seventeenth century. Hero t...

Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey’s first and most famous work, A Theory of...

This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830 to 1900. Consisting of a series of original essays written by prominen...

The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion. Winner of the Milton Society of ...

A ‘marketplace phenomenon’ of the twentieth century, a ‘bright spot’ in an otherwise fluctuating literature market and an integral part of the live...

As the title Writing Difference: Nationalism, Identity and Literature suggests, the dominant theme of the book is nation and its inevitable concomi...

There is a strong tradition of women’s poetry written in response to the events of the First World War. Many of these poems depict direct experienc...

Women Writers in the Twentieth Century Literature, an anthology consisting of twenty articles by eminent scholars, is an attempt to analyse the poi...

Within the social structure of India itself, there had been a typical man-woman relationship in terms of dependence and support. Woman was supposed...

Women in Nigerian and Indo-Anglian Fiction: A Comparative Study of Female Novelists highlights the problems faced by women. The similarities and co...