Anna-Louise Milne 
Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris [PDF ebook] 

The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction explores the importance of comedy in contemporary literature and culture. In an era largely defined by a mood of crisis, bleakness, cruelty, melancholia …

Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers writing today. Featuring a substantial new interview with Ben Okri hims …

"The Recreations of a Country Parson" by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd offers a reflective and insightful portrayal of rural life through the lens of a country parson. Set in the Victorian …

"The City of Pleasure, A Fantasia on Modern Themes" Part III" by Arnold Bennett delves deeper into the complexities of modernity and the urban transformation that characterized the Edw …

"Ormond, Or, The Secret Witness" Volume 3 by Charles Brockden Brown continues the gripping American Gothic tale set in 18th-century Philadelphia, delving deeper into themes of psychological …

Shakespeare”s international status as a literary icon is largely based on his masterful use of the English language, yet beyond Britain his plays and poems are read and performed mainly in translati …

Where does Shakespeare fit into the drama of his day? Getting to know the work of Shakespeare”s contemporaries offers an insight into Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupations and the theatrical clima …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainab …

Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own temporal moment, Simon Dentith complicates tra …

In her analysis of the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee”s literary and intellectual career, Jane Poyner illuminates the author”s abiding preoccupation with what Poyner calls the ‘paradox of pos …