Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

James Joyce's use of ten one hundred-letter words in Finnegans Wake has always been an intriguing feature of that novel.

By 1901, the public museum was firmly established as an important national institution in British life.

One of the particular concerns of the Victorians was the notion of ‘taste’ and the idea that good taste in any field – clothing, décor, landscape, music, art, even food – meant good taste in all, and that tastefulness was a reliable sign of moral sensitivity, indeed of national, even racial, quality.