Literary studies: general Books

The Romantic period was characterized by a new historical self-consciousness in which history, and in particular the medieval, became an important screen for comprehending the present. Recent Scholarship has proposed contending theories for understanding...

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Introduction: Jewish Myth, Mysticism and George Eliot's Fiction George Eliot and Kabbalism: Historical and Literary Context Kabbalistic Philosophy and the Novels From Formless Matter to Matter with Form The Relationship between Creator and Creature...

List of Tables List of Plates Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: P.Garside, E.J.Clery & C.Franklin PART I: AUTHORSHIP Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy; P.Perkins Women Poets and Anonymity in the Romantic Era; P.R...

Introduction: Ethical Criticism and Postwar Literary Theory Reading the 'Heavy Industry of the Mind': Ethical Criticism and the Anglo-America Academic Novel Negotiating the University Community: Lucky Jim and the Politics of Academe Scholar Adventurers...

Introduction The Genealogy of the Imperial Boy The Jungle Books : Post-Mutiny Allegories of Empire Stalky & Co.: Resituating the Empire and the Imperial Boy Kim : Disciplinary Power and Cultural Hybridity Kim : Ethnography and the Hybrid Boy Conclusion...

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Reading Coleridge Through Schiller Schiller and the Young Coleridge Coleridge and Weimar Classicism British Germanophiles Schiller's Poetry in Coleridge's Notebooks Semblance and Aesthetic Autonomy in...

Introduction 'A Kind of a Sort of a Gentleman': The Gentleman's Progress from Sir Charles Grandison to John Halifax The Literary Evolution of the Lower Middle Class: The Natural History of the Gent to Little Dorrit Voices from the Margins: Dickens,...

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: 'Mother Country' PART I: MAPPING SOME TERRITORY Colouring the English; S.Thomas A Literature of Belonging: Rewriting the Domestic Novel; A.Blake Learning Me Your Language: England in the Postcolonial...

Introduction; J.B.Winston After Zigzagging; L.Donh Rap Music; N.Q.Chanh Playing with Identities: Everyday Pleasures in Colonial Vietnam; E.J.Peters Moving Along the Edge of Summer; P.H.Thu Cultural Encounters in French Colonial Literature; P.Laude After...

In 13 studies of representations of rape in medieval and early modern literature by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Spenser, this innovative book argues that some form of sexual violence against women has always served as a foundation of...

This collection takes the view that authors like Chaucer and Christine de Pizan, often presented as unique, iconic promoters of a debate thought to have occurred primarily in England and France in the late medieval years, should in reality be considered...

This study innovatively explores how Malory's Morte Darthur responds to available literary vernacular Arthurian traditions-the French defined as theoretical in impulse, the English as performative and experimental. Negotiating these influences, Malory...

This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating,...

Not In Sisterhood investigates an important transitional moment in the history of U.S. women's writing : the uneasy shift from the 19th-century model of the "lady author" to some new but undefined alternative. The careers of Edith Wharton and Willa...

Introduction Authorship, the Forbidden Country Women Writing Exile 'Returning from the Ghost Place': Recomposing History 'The War that has gone into us': Troubles from the North Travelling Back Home: The Blockbusters Patricia Scanlan and Maeve Binchy...

This study uncovers a vital thematic unity within Blake's early work: his far-reaching use of humor. Although often dismissed as a product of his eccentricity, the comic was an essential key to Blake's concept of Vision. With special reference to...

This is a collection of essays that addresses the absence of real confrontation with Jean-Paul Sartre's work by shedding light on Sartre's contribution to critical trends that have been developing over the last twenty years, including feminism, gender...

The first book-length critical analysis of its kind, this work is an engaging study of Wharton's travel writing as the embodiment of her connoisseurship.

Eating and drinking—vital to all human beings—were of central importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Culinary Shakespeare, the first collection devoted solely to the study of food and drink in Shakespeare’s plays, reframes...