Author: Philip Davis

'His mind and hand went together' said Hemings and Condell of the speed of Shakespeare. But the conceptual language of literary criticism, be it mo...

Can reading literature really help our mental health? This book shows how and why - not by instruction or prescription but by emotion and explorati...

Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost ...

Heralding a new era in literary studies, the Oxford English Literary History breaks the mould of traditional approaches to the canon by focusing on...

First published in 1991. This book is written with the intent to reach serious readers in and outside a university through joint mental contact wit...

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature’s enduring impact and importance for readers interested in t...

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature’s enduring impact and importance for readers interested in t...

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the st...

Discusses the life and work of William James, a founder of the study of psychology. William James (1842-1910) was elder brother to the novelist He...

Reading George Eliot's work was described by one Victorian critic as 'the feeling of entering the confessional in which she sees and hears all the ...