Delivering fresh insight into the variety and richness of Collins’ themes and arguments, this volume provides a key source of information and analysis on all Collins’ fiction.
Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. It will be... Læs mere
This book describes how medieval authors represent the natural world – both seeing it in terms of natural and animal forces and meanings, but also as a different domain that can cast a revealing and critical light on the human and urban world.
English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century discusses the valuable fiction written in mid-nineteenth century Britain which represents the situations of the new breed of industrial workers.
Delivering fresh insight into the variety and richness of Collins’ themes and arguments, this volume provides a key source of information and analysis on all Collins’ fiction.
English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century discusses the valuable fiction written in mid-nineteenth century Britain which represents the situations of the new breed of industrial workers.
Knight looks at the different manifestations of Robin Hood at different times and places in a mythic biography with a thematic structure. Each of the book's four central chapters identifies a particular model of the hero, mythic or biographic.
Stephen Knight traces the myth of Merlin from to the early Welsh figure of Myrddin, through centuries of literature and art, and to contemporary examples of literature, film, and television.