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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 …

First published in 1995. The essays in this volume demonstrate how Victorian women took up various positions along a continuum that ranged from the desire of Shelley’s creature for the power and acce …

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been considered a particularly British writer in part as his official post as Poet Laureate inevitably committed him to a certain amount of patriotic writin …

James Joyce and Catholicism is the first historicist study to explore the religious cultural contexts of Joyce”s final masterpiece. Drawing on letters, authorial manuscripts and other archival mater …

Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expan …

Milton”s Ovidian Eve presents a fresh and thorough exploration of the classical allusions central to understanding Paradise Lost and to understanding Eve, one of Milton”s most complex characters. M …

How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao”s study of American writers. Arguing that the crisis of bodily representati …

In her feminist intervention into the ways in which British women novelists explore and challenge the limitations of the mind-body binary historically linked to constructions of femininity, Andrea Ad …

The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three volume …

A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen”s writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in …