Henry James 
Prefaces [PDF ebook] 

Few centuries have seen greater changes in social perspective and guiding ideas than the eighteenth century; literature in every Western country was a powerful instrument not only in recording these …

First published in 2006. Women and Romanticism’s first two volumes gather material from the vast body of work produced around the subjects of education and employment. VOLUME II covers Education and …

I will tell you a story that will make you believe in God.‘ No story can guarantee being able to do this. Yet novelists can tell stories that make us think about what we believe about God and why. De …

Given the increasing number of old people, the proliferation of books about old age is hardly surprising. Most of these come from cultural historians or social scientists and, when those with a liter …

In her timely contribution to revisionist approaches in modernist studies, Lorraine Sim offers a reading of Virginia Woolf“s conception of ordinary experience as revealed in her fiction and nonficti …

Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the “eye“ and the “I“ in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vi …

Tracing the history of tragedy and comedy from their earliest beginnings to the present, this book offers readers an exceptional study of the development of both genres, grounded in analysis of landm …

Sally West“s timely study is the first book-length exploration of Coleridge“s influence on Shelley“s poetic development. Beginning with a discussion of Shelley“s views on Coleridge as a man and a …

Revised Lives examines self-representation in U.S. culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu“s sociology, an …

Departing from the conventional understanding of neoliberalism as a set of economic and political policies favoring free markets, Neoliberal Culture presents a framework for analyzing neoliberalism i …