Literature: History & Criticism

This volume documents the literary controversy and debate over Samuel Richardson's novel, "Pamela", published in 1741. It brings together and repri...

Aims to bring alive, through the eyes of their contemporaries, three of the greatest political figures of the Victorian era - Henry, third Viscount...

First published in 1986. Dubliners was James Joyce’s first major publication. Setting it at the turn of the century, Joyce claims to hold up a ‘nic...

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge Intertext series is unique in offering students hands-on practical experience of textual analys...

The "Critical Review" reflects the political, scientific and literary debate of the times. The journal was edited for its first seven years by Tobi...

Positioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism considers transnational modernist fiction ...

This book examines strategies of transformation (becomings, image-making, and the phantasmagoric) that figure in four stories and a novel by Gothic...

The years 1890-1945 saw an unprecedented outpouring of fiction focused on British university life, much of it reflecting the drastic change that ha...

First published in 1996. Intertextuality the phenomenon is as old as literature itself. And to medievalists in particular, it was a critical common...

First published in 1984. Although Middlemarch was extravagantly praised by Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf, it is only in the last ...

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the final part of a ...

This collection aims to give a chronological insight into the evolution of conduct literature, from its early roots in the Renaissance period throu...

Since the 9/11 attacks terror has established its permeating hold on society’s psyche. Creative writing, a popular and visible cultural witness to ...

First published in 1969. This title concerns itself with the ambivalence of Lawrence’s attitude towards corruption. Clarke demonstrates that Lawren...

The rise of the novel paradigm—and the underlying homology between the rise of a bourgeois middle class and the coming of age of a new literary gen...

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 ...

Through close readings of select stories and novels by well-known writers from different literary traditions, Fictional Translators invites readers...

Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volu...

The years 1890-1945 saw an unprecedented outpouring of fiction focused on British university life, much of it reflecting the drastic change that ha...

Vivienne Brough-Evans proposes a compelling new way of reevaluating aspects of international surrealism by means of the category of divin fou, and ...

Continuing our series on Women's Travel Writings, this two-part collection presents some fascinating tales of North Africa and the Middle East.

The "Critical Review" reflects the political, scientific and literary debate of the times. The journal was edited for its first seven years by Tobi...

Presents scholars, students and general readers with the major fiction for adults, much of the best of juvenile fiction, and a selection of the edu...

Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings are multi-volume editions with full texts reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The ...