That Ezra Pound was the chief architect of Modernism in English and American poetry is well established. So, too, is the fact that in T. S. Eliot he discovered a peer, whose early career he fostered.
Who really wrote the Shakespeare plays? This important literary and cultural controversy is livelier and more widely discussed than ever before. Here, nine leading experts offer their version of who w
Who really wrote the Shakespeare plays? This important literary and cultural controversy is livelier and more widely discussed than ever before. Here, nine leading experts offer their version of who w
This important study offers close readings of The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette, considered in feminist, Marxist, and other theoretical and critical contexts.
The first and most obvious theme is communication, the second is identity, since language and clothes were and are a means to place unknown individuals in their social group.
This work is the established deep analysis of the ideas, institutions and men who coalesced into what became the characteristically Victorian statistical movement to probe, measure, quantify and refor
â This acclaimed book recovers and explores an important tradition of 19th-century women's poetry - from Felicia Hemans to Charlotte Mew. It is impressive in scope, is highly original in its aims, and
This is a book of 100 poems of great richness and variety. Indeed, it is genuinely a landmark book. It is an important literary and academic event in itself.Professor Lord Asa Briggs is one of the mos
Professor Gilbert's extensive researches provided much new material, for the history of how the British government created the physical, educational and welfare institutions in response to the problem
Professor Gilbert's extensive researches provided much new material, for the history of how the British government created the physical, educational and welfare institutions in response to the problem
George Moore's fierce polemic against the literary and social censorship of the Victorian select circulating libraries was a landmark in the history of English novel publishing. Moore wrote this broad
The great man's career was riddled with contradictions. This new book highlights these, and shows the difficulties he experienced as well as his ultimate successes. ; Until now, little or nothing has
These volumes comprise a unique and original work which provides comprehensive biographical information on all 884 persons who left personal estates of £100,000 or more in Britain from 1809, whe
This unusual book stands out in a crowded field. â It provides practical, expert, insider-knowledge.It includes a full guide to current websites.It offers many tips, short-cuts and helps to acce
This unusual book stands out in a crowded field. â It provides practical, expert, insider-knowledge.It includes a full guide to current websites.It offers many tips, short-cuts and helps to acce
This book tells the previously untold story of daily life immediately behind the frontline during the tragic year of 1917. The author, who kept a detailed record of events and attitudes, was a village
Literature for the masses appeared on an unprecedented scale in the first half of the 19th-century. This was the earliest response to new and voracious demands for cheap books of all kinds. This famou
