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An exciting and provocative collection of essays which registers the changes to 'Englishness' since the 1950s, 'The revisions of Englishness' explores how conventional ideas of 'Englishness' have been re-imagined in post-war fiction, poetry and film. -- .

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This book offers case studies analyzing a full array of genres in childrens literature, from picture books to young adult novels. This volumes contributions interrogate how childrens literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most impressionable segments of our population.

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This book offers case studies analyzing a full array of genres in childrens literature, from picture books to young adult novels. This volumes contributions interrogate how childrens literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most impressionable segments of our population.

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Richard Wright is one of the most important African American writers. By attacking the taboos and hypocrisy that other writers had failed to address, he revolutionized American literature and created a disturbing and realistic portrait of the African American experience.

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Uncovering the unexplored archive in the history of poetics, the author shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity.

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She died in 1869.

The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters tells the remarkable but little-known story of women writers in the eighteenth century - of poets, critics, dramatists and scholars celebrated in their own time but all but forgotten by the beginning of the new century.

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Explores the social and cultural history of bureaucratization in 19th-century Britain and France via the evolving literary portrayal of office life.

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Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection shows how transformative the study of rhythm can be across the humanities and social sciences.

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This guide explores the dominant methodologies, theories and debates surrounding the emergence of the novel during the eighteenth century. Covering key criticism on authors such as Defoe, Fielding, Richardson and Austen, the emphasis is on how critical work is interrelated, allowing readers to discern trends in the critical conversation.

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This timely collection of essays explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision. Addressing British-European entanglements and the impact of British Euroscepticism, the book argues that Britain is in denial about the strength of its ties to Europe, and that it needs to face Europe if it is to face the future.

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With the full cooperation of Stephen King himself, Vincent examines the epic journey of the author to complete his seven-part Dark Tower series--a journey began in 1970 that threatened to overwhelm him. Vincent presents a book-by-book analysis of each volume that would become the crowning achievement of King's literary career.

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An annotated edition of an important Jacobean comedy, which is currently receiving attention from critics and on stage because the leading character is based on a famous personality of the time, Moll Cutpurse.

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Often thought of as the quintessential poet of New England, Robert Frost is one of the most widely read American poets of the 20th century.

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Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Robert Lowell has left a prodigious literary legacy that includes several verse plays as well as numerous volumes of poetry.

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The author, who states that Latin literature gains from being viewed as performance, sees the creation of different characters or "masks" as a result of the Greco-Roman training in rhetoric. The implications of the use of these "masks" for authors and audiences of satire are explored.

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