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This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to William Blake. It explores the British and European reception of Blakes work from the late nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.

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An attempt to study Burmese drama as a whole and from a modern critical standpoint.

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An analysis of contemporary women's mysteries featuring the modern female detective.

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Containing over a hundred interviews conducted over the last fifteen years with leading directors, actors and writers at the National Theatre, Buzz Buzz! is a fantastic compendium that offers unrivalled insight into the work and practice of the best theatre talent.

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How did Italy Italianise Byron And how did Byron Byronise Italy These are the key questions that the volume sets out to answer. -- .

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This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis.

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This book presents a realistic account of the early years of C.S. Lewis as revealed in Spirits in Bondage and its surrounding events. It calls for a reappraisal of Lewis himself, not as a soldier-poet but as a young, ruthless and ambitious would-be academic, using othershis father, his university, his mistressto further his own ends.

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The present study utilizes the Caliban symbol in examining the influence of colonialism in Caribbean literature, focusing on the works of three major writers from the Caribbean islands: Jean Rhys, of British descent from Dominica;

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California has always represented new beginnings and opportunities in a golden land. In constructing the California Dream, much has been omitted or repressed. This study explores the dark side of the dream, as revealed in the states rich tradition of Gothic literature and film.

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Identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. This book traces the evolution of Yiddish and Hebrew in modern Jewish American prose writing through dialect and accent, and cross-cultural translations.

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While other works have looked at Arthurian legend in light of nineteenth-century social conditions, this volume focuses on how these poets approached love and death in their works, and how the legend of Arthur shaped their vision.

An introductory chapter traces Arthurian legend from its inception.

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French language edition of Candide in Denmark, the continuation of the adventures of Voltaire's famous creation, with introduction and notes in French. -- .

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Focuses on a contemporary form of computer-based literature called 'literary hypertext', a digital, interactive, communicative form of new media writing. This book combines theoretical and hermeneutic investigations with empirical research into the motivational and pedagogic possibilities of this form of literature.

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This comprehensive, annotated bibliography of works by and about Caribbean women novelists from 1950 to the present covers novelists from all Caribbean islands and Surinam writing in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, and their dialects.

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This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist and a full-length study of the novel.

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This book proffers an original theory of postcolonial feminist writings, and bears witness to the radical possibility of the work of some prominent and other less-known postcolonial women writers from Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the Americas.