(Hardback)

From 1890 to 1920, the British aristocracy faded in historical importance. This book explores the centrality of aristocracy to late Victorian and early-20th-century literary culture.

Included are discussions of such writers as Marie Corelli, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, H.G.

(Hardback)

James Joyce stands at the forefront of modernism - a writer whose work has gained a unique status in modern Western culture. This book offers an introduction to reading and studying Joycean texts and surveys the key contexts - literary, historical, political, philosophical and compositional - which shaped and determined them.

(Paperback)

James Joyce stands at the forefront of modernism - a writer whose work has gained a unique status in modern Western culture. This title introduces the work of James Joyce, the literary, historical and political contexts in which he wrote and his critical reception up to the this day. It offers an introduction to reading and studying Joycean texts.