A collection of essays written over the past 30 years, with five essays original to this publication. Essays touch on areas including Burn's use of Scottish diction, his satire, Burns and the legacy o
Approaches Shakespeare's last play from the directions of sources and analogues in classical literature and mythology, colonial and dynastic politics, performance and performance history, critical rea
A selection of essays on Dickens' novel, concentrating on the novel's fundamental structural and thematic division into contrasting cities, scenes, characters, and ideologies. An introduction looks at
Comprises ten essays written over the past 15 years, some covering large issues and commenting on multiple works and others focusing on an individual novel by British writer Austen (1775-1817). The to
A collection of 18 essays generated over the past 15 years, including four new ones and one translated especially for the volume, on English writer Stern (1713-68), who remains nearly as controversial
Contains 32 newly commissioned and reprinted essays and articles addressing the work of novelist, poet, and critic Kingsley Amis (1922- 1995). Contributors include Paul Fussell, Robert H. Bell, John
A collection of 11 essays written over the past 20 years that represent a variety of critical approaches, including reader-response theory, deconstruction, and gender and queer theory. Treatments of
Twenty-two essays are collected to provide an overview of the current trajectory of critical readings of Browning. The essays, all either republished journal articles or book excerpts, reflect three d
An introduction traces the composition and publication of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from its inception as a short story to its final form on 1916. Essays cover the last 30 years of
