Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

By the standards of any age, Frances (Fanny) Trollope was an extraordinary woman who led an extraordinary life.

This new book examines the career and works of Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood [nee Ellen Strand Price, 1814-87), the author of the enormously successful and sensational mid-Victorian bestseller: East Lynne (1861), and many others.

This concise new book provides close readings of both canonical and less familiar novels and articles by the novelist Margaret Oliphant (1828-97).

'It is always a bore being ahead of one's time.

An amazing guide to some of the most beloved, original, inspiring, hysterical, heart-warming, compelling, rude and downright scary books that have enchanted children the world over.

Once dismissed as a "e;purveyor of dangerous inflammatory fiction,"e; Florence Marryat has suffered a reputation as a trashy and formulaic novelist, unworthy of critical attention.

This book is for all readers of crime fiction.

London Fictions is a book about London, real and imagined.

The name of Mary Kingsley deserves to be more widely known than it is today.

First published in 1916, Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africa's most talented early twentieth-century black leaders and journalists.

First published in 1916, Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africa's most talented early twentieth-century black leaders and journalists.

In Losing the Plot, well-known scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing which, he contends, has morphed into a far more flexible and multifaceted entity than its predecessor.

In Losing the Plot, well-known scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing which, he contends, has morphed into a far more flexible and multifaceted entity than its predecessor.

Nuruddin Farah is widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated voices in contemporary world literature.

Nuruddin Farah is widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated voices in contemporary world literature.

La trastienda es vista como un espacio de acumulación, un taller de trabajo o el hogar del vendedor cuando no ocupa su anaquel.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Ngugi's entire novelistic output in examined, including his major works, The River Between, A Grain of Wheat, Petals of Blood and Matigari.

Includes the plays The Wrong Side of the Park, Come as You Are and Edwin This second volume of Oberon's new edition of John Mortimer's Collected Plays contains two full-length works, The Wrong Side of the Park and Edwin, and four short plays known collectively as Come As You Are and individually named after parts of London.

Includes the plays Theresa, A Dead Woman on Holiday and The DybbukPresented as a trilogy at the New End Theatre in 1995 before touring much of Europe, The Dybbuk pays homage to Anski s great Russian classic.

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John Mortimer's autobiographical play is the affectionate portrait of a son's relationship with his father.

Georges Feydeau, once considered as purveyor of slapstick farces, is now accepted as France s best comic dramatist since Moliere.

In a world bound by iron laws and dead rituals, two young men are struggling to make their way: Steerpike, the renegade kitchen-boy who seduces and murders his way up the social ladder, and Titus Groan, heir to Gormenghast, who comes to threaten its very existence.

Writing Master Class is a biography of David Pownall s play, Master Class (1983), from conception to coming of age.

Dr Richard Garfield has given Ursula a difficult choice.

While text processing is often associated with the digital humanities, it is still seen as worlds apart from literary modernism and its aesthetic preoccupations.

Horror isn't what it used to be.

This study examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel.

This study is about the central place of the emotional world in Beckett's writing.

This book draws together for the very first time examples of the 'aesthetic pacifism' practised during the Great War by such celebrated individuals as Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon and Bertrand Russell.

Horror isn't what it used to be.

This study examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel.

'The finest book ever written about England and the English' Stuart Maconie'J.

Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba.

'The scent of God.

Together with a new political, social, and cultural order, the Bolshevik Revolution also brought about a spatial revolution.

Literary fiction in Germany has long been a medium for contemplation of the 'nation' and questions of national identity.

This book looks at a wide range of fiction and film texts, from the 1950s to the present, in order to analyse the ways in which masculinity has been represented in popular culture in Britain and the United States.