Literary Studies: General

'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so...

'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert BurnsRobert Burns, poet and lyricist, also known as Rabbie Burns,...

Now available in paperback, Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and ...

This is a collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the I...

Anthony Munday and civic culture is a full-scale study of a fascinating but hitherto neglected author set in the context of the city where he was b...

It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwells poetry offers a curious view of Elizabethan England, one that is from the restricted perspect...

This comprehensive study of A. S. Byatts work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatts works of fiction up...

With its fantasy of magical travel and inexhaustible riches, Thomas Dekker''s Old Fortunatus is the quintessential early modern journeying play. Th...