Literature: History & Criticism

Maxwell Gray tells the sensational story of an ambitious clergyman, who accidentally kills the father of a woman he has made pregnant, and then all...

Fuses historical and psychoanalytic perspectives to offer a provocative and original analysis of Elizabeth Bowen's fictionThe first major analysis ...

The Book of Tribulations is the earliest complete Muslim apocalyptic text to survive, and as such has considerable value as a primary text. It is u...

Investigates the latent and manifest traces of the East in Pre-Raphaelite literature and cultureThe Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism: Language and C...

Explores the impact of the Russian Revolution and League of Nations on British modernist culture 1917 was the moment in which a new sense of intern...

This book reads the highly descriptive impressionist writings of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound. W...

Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical change in her own lifetime and beyondThe death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing ...

The first in-depth study of the landmark modern feminist magazine, Time and TideThis book reconstructs the first two decades of Time and Tide (1920...

Restructures and revitalises late Romantic literature as a movement fascinated with competing claims about the reality and knowability of character...

Seeing the faces of literature's most memorable female characters - from Anna Karenina's icy grey gaze to Scarlett O'Hara's sensual open-lipped pou...

Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Grea...

This light-hearted but deeply researched book offers interest and guidance to walkers, social historians and lovers of the Bronte family; their liv...

This book shows how Mary Shelley created a monster. Commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Frankenstein, it traces the origins and impact o...

Robin Hood is a national English icon. He is portrayed as a noble robber, who, along with his band of merry men, is said to have stolen from the ri...

Jane Austen is the worlds bestselling novelist 200 years after her death. We seem to have a never-ending appetite for the swooning of Sense & ...