The first full-length study of Selvon to cover all aspects of his fictional world: poems, radio dramas, short fiction and novels. It traces the evolution of Selvon from fledging author of poems and sh
This book re-assesses the significance to Pre-Raphaelitism of the fundamental relationship of poem to painting, of the visual to the verbal, to examine those aspects of the movement that account for i
In the 1790s, when Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams were at the peak of their critical reputations, they were known to each other and often cited together approvingly. This book looks at how S
This study looks at the whole range of Wilde's writing and places it in the context of later nineteenth century ideas, suggesting that the influence of his studies at Oxford was more profound than has
W. G. Sebald was a literary phenomenon: a German literary scholar working in England, who took up creative writing out of dissatisfaction with German post-war letters. Within only a few years, his uni
One of the most powerful and provocative writers to have emerged in Britain in recent years, Kelman has engendered a good deal of controversy over his widely reported, but often misconcieved use of 'b
A study of the lives of and works of Anna Barbauld and Mary Robinson, two of the most influential women poets of the late 18th and early 19th centuries giving particular attention to them as London po
Douglas Dunn is one of the most widely-read and respected poets of his generation. In a career spanning over 30 years, he has refined lyric and elegiac poetry into an instrument with which to make acu
Moving adroitly between historical context and modern critical problems, this study explores the intertwining of politics, sexuality, and the social order in Measure for Measure, one of the most frequ
The notion of thinking as an outsider, and the critical distance which this entails, is a key to an understanding of Desai as writer. Through discussions of short stories and novels, and references to
Margaret Drabble is a writer whose subject matter and technique have developed profoundly since the early sixties: this book draws together the different aspects of her narrative practice, and looks a
