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This is the first full-length study of religion in the fiction of the Brontes. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the Anglican church in the nineteenth century, Marianne... Læs mere
The first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to the African diaspora, this study explores connections with literature produced by... Læs mere
This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in the fiction of Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood,... Læs mere
This is the first book to examine the literature of the Romantic period as a conscious attempt to effect the religious... Læs mere
John Pilling re-evaluates the formative years of Beckett between the publication of his first work in 1929 and the composition late in 1946 of The Calmative. Pilling offers for the... Læs mere
In this original study, Colin Nicholson reads familiar texts such as Gulliver's Travels, The Beggar's Opera and The... Læs mere
Robert Mayer explores the meaning of 'history' in the seventeenth century and shows how the narratives of Daniel Defoe, unlike... Læs mere
In this book, Nigel Leask sets out to study the work of Byron, Shelley and De Quincey (together with a number of other major and minor Romantic writers, including Robert Southey and Tom Moore) in relation to Britain's imperial designs on the 'Orient'.
Whilst drawing to some extent on recent theoretical studies, this book restores Clarissa to its largely neglected eighteenth-century context.
Manju Jain's innovative study of T. S. Eliot's Harvard years traces the genesis of his major literary, religious and intellectual preoccupations in his early work as a student of philosophy, and explores its influence on his poetic and critical practice.
John Goodridge explores the role of rural poetry in eighteenth-century literary culture. He examines the purpose of rural poetry, and how it relates to... Læs mere
This study of correspondence in the Romantic period calls into question the common notion that letters are a particularly 'romantic', personal, and ultimately feminine form of writing.