Literature: History & Criticism

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 & ...

When Jesus offers his body as a promise to his disciples, he initiates a liturgical framework that is driven by irony and betrayal. Through these d...

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or il...

The Artist and the Trinity' aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artist...