Literary studies: general

This text explores the ways in which four British novelists used and transformed the theme of women's relation to sexual love in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Shelley's detractors since Hazlitt have noticed a division in the 'self' of his poems.

Challenging our understanding of ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, Shakespeare's Imagined Persons proposes we should view his characters as imagined persons.

The Stoics, Dante, the philosophers of the Enlightenment, H.

Sensibility and Economics in the Novel argues that the sentimental novel, usually seen as a 'feminine' genre concentrating exclusively on emotional response, is in fact actively involved in contemporary economic and political debates.

The Poetry of Postmodernity reappraises key Anglo/American poets of the last fifty years in the light of debates about the postmodern situation.

This book brings together many of John Barrell's essays - some written especially for this volume - on the history and politics of culture in eighteenth-century Britain.

Duality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs.

Sir Walter Ralegh created a powerful public identity by means of the prose texts he wrote from prison.

Sir Walter Scott defined the parameters of the historical novel and illustrated his concept of the genre by writing a long series of novels dealing with medieval times, the Elizabethan Age and the 18th Century.

An examination of a number of English women novelists who portrayed the crises and conflicts in the development of the female consciousness as a response to the anomalies of the rapidly changing world of the early twentieth century when opportunities for self-expression and fulfilment were beginning to open up for women but nineteenth-century values and prejudices still widely prevailed.

This book is an analysis of the sonnet in the English Renaissance.

This book documents the changing representation of subjectivity in Medieval and Early Modern English drama by intertextually exploring discourses of 'self-speaking', including soliloquy.

'Meticulously researched and lucidly written, this volume will likely become and remain the definitive study of the history of works Hardy adapted for the stage and of the Hardy Players who, in the main, performed them.

William Blake and the Myths of Britain is the first full-length study of Blake's use of British mythology and history.

Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the Untied States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society.

James Mussell provides an accessible account of the digitization of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals.

This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500.

Through its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century's major poets, this study highlights the intricacy of the relation between the 'music' of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the ferment of metrical experiment eventually led to the emergence of free verse.

The idea of diversity dominates cultural policy in the twenty-first century.

Ecocriticism is one of the most vibrant fields of cultural study today, and environmental issues are controversial and topical.

This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period.

Surveying the later work of W.

Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans a clef , providing insight into restrictions governing the representation of female homosexuality in the early twentieth century.

The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture.

The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry provides a stimulating, original and lively analysis of the Irish-Japanese literary connection from the early 1960s to 2007.

From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre.

Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the changing culture of the late-Victorian period as represented by a range of women writers through a range of essays by leading academics in the field and cutting-edge work by newer scholars.

Revises the semiotic paradigm of the early modern 'literary system' dominant since 1983 by adapting methods entailed in the idea that literary works emerge through a series of semiotic events.

An exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today.

Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today.

Considers the Indian periodical press as a key forum for the production of nationalist rhetoric.

This book applies theoretical models that reflect the mediated, hybrid, and nomadic global scenes within which GenX artists and writers live, think, and work.

Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the centrality of time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination.

This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling.

This book critically assessesthird-wave feminist strategies for advancing a feminist 'politics of the self' within the late modern, postfeminist gender order - a context where gender equality has been mainstreamed, feminism has been dismissed, and a neoliberal culture of self-management has become firmly entrenched.

Who was the early twentieth-century masculine middlebrow reader?

This is the first book-length analysis of Shakespeare s depiction of specula (mirrors) to reveal the literal and allegorical functions of mirrors in the playwright s art and thought.

This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett.

This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars.

This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education.

Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect.

London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher.

India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period.

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.

Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction.

Exploring writing of working-class Dublin after Sean O'Casey, this book breaks new ground in Irish Studies, unearthing submerged narratives of class in Irish life.

Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how.

An international trade emerged between 1870-1895 that incorporated the circulation of books among countries worldwide.

This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened feminism'.