This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, ...

A critical introduction to the work of the English novelist Elizabeth Taylor tracing some of her ...

This study analyses and contextualizes Meredith's more widely read works, bringing out both the s...

A revaluation of the vast and vastly varied work of G.K. Chesterton through a literary reading of...

An in-depth study of all of Rushdie's fiction to date, tracing the recurrence of his themes, the ...

Since Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' inaugurated the detective whodunnit in 18...

This book explores revenge plays by major playwrights of the English Renaissance.

This new edition of Steven Connor's book is an animated, accessible critique to the whole range o...

This book re-assesses the significance to Pre-Raphaelitism of the fundamental relationship of poe...

This new study of the work of Ted Hughes traces the stages of his development as a poet, from his...

This book offers the intelligent new reader a critically evaluative guide to Keat's major poems a...

This study explores the sources of many ofthe received interpretations of the play, assessing t...