Literary Studies: General

Bruce Gilkison, a New Zealander and a great-great-grandson of Hoggs, walked through Scotland to discover what was special about him and his journey...

There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful. Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orle...

A romantic comedy in which the central characters have a distinctly unromantic disposition, Night and Day was Virginia Woolf's second novel. Writte...

Our most revered critic returns to his signature theme Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it, writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influ...

Award-winning playwright, author and critic Bonnie Greer's touching, funny and thought-provoking memoir is a voyage into the making of a woman who ...

From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the ch...

''The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade...'' - Financial Times''To be savoured for its vivid and sympathe...

What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal te...

Over the past fifty years, feminist literary criticism has become theoretical rather than practical, severing any relationship between literary ana...

Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth'. So Roderick Cavaliero introduces the European Romantic obsession with the Orient.Cavaliero d...

In 1959, C. P. Snow lamented the presence of what he called the 'two cultures': the apparently unbridgeable chasm of understanding and knowledge be...

In this compelling collection of essays contributors critically examine Creative Writing in American Higher Education. Considering Creative Writing...

The market for print steadily expanded throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world thanks to printers' efforts  to ensure that ordinary people...

The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended...