Literature: History & Criticism

Collects Stan Gontarski's finest essays on the work of Samuel Beckett over a forty-year periodRepresenting a profound engagement with the work of S...

Traces and measures the material impact of Dickens' fiction in London's built environmentDickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or...

Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St ...

Provides much-needed critical analyses of the work of 60s avant-garde writers . Offers focused essays - each presents one author in their cultural/...

Human suffering, the fear of death, war, poverty, ecological destruction and social inequality: almost 2,000 ago Lucretius proposed an ethics of mo...

This book gathers a suite of newly commissioned, original essays on the work of E. L. Doctorow. It reframes our understanding of his oeuvre by enga...

Robert Burns (1759-96) remains Scotland's greatest poet, songwriter and song-collector. Regarded by Keats and Wordsworth as a morning star of the R...

Although he has won plaudits and awards for work in film, television, and on stage, Tony Nardi?s most recent headlines have been earned by his Thre...

Explores the importance and complexity of classical allusiveness in the modern American novelExploresboth the sheer extent and the ideologically-in...

D.H. Lawrence's first travel book and an important insight into the roots of his literary genius. In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence left England for ...

A revelatory and deeply personal history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John BurnsidePoetry helps us to make sense...

Any translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as ...

A comprehensive inquiry into the literary representation of the convulsive social and political changes introduced by the Bolivarian Revolution. L...