This work offers a wonderfully illustrated guide - and a rigorous analysis - of popular print and literature in all its many forms in the first half of the 19th century.
Dickens on England and the English explores Dickens's attitudes towards and relationships to his country, drawing on a very wide range of his fiction. It offers an account of his often complex and con
This new work is currently the only book devoted to the teaching of one of the most canonical and frequently taught American authors.The specially commissioned essays are designed to help teachers mee
Numunwari is a gigantic salt-water crocodile - sacred to the Aboriginal community, and the keeper of the secrets of their ancient customs. It lives in Arnhem Land in a remote part of northern Australi
This is the second edition of the classic on the history of British horse racing. It provides a detailed and far-ranging social and economic analysis of the major changes in British flat racing, in pa
This landmark book - entirely unobtainable for several years - is the single essential study of how the best-known Bronte novels - Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights - achieved their world-wide fame.
Dr Robert Lefever is one of the leading international specialists on addictions.He established the very first addiction rehabilitation centre in the UK offering treatment to patients with eating disor
This is the innovative, trail-blazing enquiry into the importance, range, and history of the publishers’ series in America and in Britain, by the leading expert in this field.
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.
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
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
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
