This centennial history is, in essence, an account of the English profession and of literary and language criticism over a one hundred year period, from pre-Bradley, Dowden, Wilson Knight, F.R. Leavis and many others, to the post-structuralist, post-colonial world and beyond. This publication is aimed at people with a general interest in English Studies and is available for purchase.
Essays & Studies 2016: Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations ISBN: 9781843844457 On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China, was roughly handled in an attempt to compel him to attend an immediate audience with the Jiaqing Emperor at the Summer…
The popularity of Gothic fictions, themes and films suggests that the genre is the norm as much as the dark underside of contemporary cultural production.
Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts, edited by Elaine Treharne, University of Leicester
The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets, written by scholars from Britain and North America, offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus re-discovered writers.
Contemporary British Women Writers Edited by Emma Parker, University of Leicester ISBN: 1843840111 First published May 2004 £30.00 / US$60.0 Despite the enduring popularity of contemporary women’s writing, British women writers have received scant critical attention. They tend to be overshadowed by their American counterparts in the media and have come to be represented within…
Fiction and film interrelate closely to each other, and the specially commissioned essays in this volume all consider different aspects of this relationship.
Writing the Global Culture, edited by Stan Smith, Nottingham Trent University ISBN: 1843840758 First published July 2006 £30.00 / US$60.0 ‘It’s a family joke,’ recalls Alex Portnoy in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint, ‘that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm and hopefully…
Slavery as depicted in literature and culture is examined in this wide-ranging collection.