Literature: History & Criticism

This volume, first published in 1968, draws attention to the special relationship between Joyce’s life and his writing. The passages are presented ...

Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing, each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had gone before. Thi...

L'Etranger has the force and fascination of myth. The outwardly simple narrative of an office clerk who kills an Arab, 'a cause du soleil', and fin...

This set offers a representitive collection of the verse satire of the Romantic period, published between the mid-1780s and the mid-1830s. As well ...

This book is fifth of the six-volume modern scholarly edition on the stories of real women's experiences. Written by the autodidact Mary Hays, it a...

During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite cultu...

This volume contains Elizabeth Isabella Spence’s Letters from the North Highlands, one of the Romantic era’s most successful non-fictional accounts...

First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers ...

In this study, first published in 1983, Professor Smith makes the argument that although The Waste Land is analogous in form to a musical compositi...

Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistem...

Contains all the major political, philosophical and educational writings of William Godwin, one of the foremost philosophers of his age. His work o...

Good writing and communication skills are essential in many areas of science and engineering, to help observation, thinking and remembering, to org...

Founded in 1820 by Henry Southern, "The Retrospective Review" aimed to recall the public from an exclusive attention to new books, by making the me...

The 2017 winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book PrizeProviding a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on ninet...

This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as S...

A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of politic...

In the period 1700-1850, the history of utopian thought cast light on ideas of property-holding, community, and social and political reform movemen...

This volume is a review of the autobiographical account Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages a...

This book is about Mrs. Hannah More, who had acted as a controversial patron to Ann Yearsley, and had used her own reputation as a poet in support ...

Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1566–1614) was a noblewoman who left her native Spain for a life of self-imposed exile and Catholic evangelism in Jaco...

This book features the perspectives of contemporaries of Victorian political figure, Florence Nightingale, who saw in her life and career a legend ...

In the early nineteenth century, the publishing house of Taylor & Hessey brought out the work of Keats, Clare, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Carlyle, La...

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, ...

Originally published in 1996. A detailed analysis of the art of children's literature covering world literature for children, children's literature...