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This book is concerned with the analysis of various travel patterns in early-nineteenth-century verse. Examples are given to illustrate the main theme and its subsidiaries: the theme of wandering, in the first place, and then the topics of Time and Space, the archetypes, the travellers, the landscape, the land and sea journeys.

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During the first part of the nineteenth century, the Lost Worlds Romance, a new literary form, appeared in which an explorer, most often a scientist, made a voyage to what was then considered to be a remote part of the earth where he discovered a fantastic lost world.

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The author, in defining the genre of "lyrical fiction," separates a type of .fiction that can be legitimately viewed as "poetry" from other narrative types. The lyrical novelist uses fictional devices to find an aesthetic expression for experience, achieving an effect most frequently seen in dreams, picaresques, and allegories. Analyzing representa

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Fully annotated edition of the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays -- .

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The Malcontent is one of the most complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre. The aim of this edition is to offer answers to the various questions raised by the play and relate it to the aesthetic cross-currents flowing at the turn of the seventeenth century.

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The very best of British humour from the classic wit of Oscar Wilde to the best of modern stand-ups.

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Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten sensation novel was a publishing phenomenon in its time. In a vivid portrait of this subversive and discomfiting popular literature, Winifred Hughes identifies its ingredients, its practitioners, and its implications, and reveals i

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From the Middle Ages to the close of the 17th century, alchemy was fundamental to Western culture. This study examines the literary representation of alchemical theory and the metaphor of alchemical regeneration in the works of Taylor, Poe, Hawthorne and Fuller.

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Argues that tropes of eroticized domination in sentimental literature must be recognized for what they were: a double-edged sword of both oppression and empowerment. This book explores the cultural forces that created this ideology of desire, particularly Protestant discourses relating suffering to love and middle-class discourses of womanhood.

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By examining the relation between time and processes of figuration in James Joyce's later work, this study identifies his attempt to engage with the philosophical problem of describing time's characteristic movement whilst acknowledging the impossibility of reducing this movement to anything that can be observed, represented or even experienced.

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This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production from literature and cinema to comics, hip hop, and cartography. It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigenous Arctic homelands have entered global media and politics to an unprecedented extent.

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Suitable for courses in medieval literature, this work offers a comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in the middle ages, focusing particularly on Middle English and the period from 1300-1500. It includes introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics.

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A resource for courses in medieval literature. It provides students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; major critical approaches and directions of new research.

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Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, this book locates the works, which reflect crises in the evolution of Western law in their legal contexts and traces through them the gradual dissociation over the centuries of law and morality.