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Stage and Page in the Elizabethan Theatre

The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention – in history, political science and literat …

Henry James”s ghost story novella, The Turn of the Screw (1898) is a key gothic text and is one of the most popular James texts for undergraduate study. This is the ideal guide to the text, setting …

In a timely and radically new reappraisal of George Orwell”s fiction, Loraine Saunders reads Orwell”s novels as tales of successful emancipation rather than as chronicles of failure. Contending tha …

Combining linguistic theory with analytical concepts and literary interpretation and appreciation, Jane Austen”s Narrative Techniques traces the creation and development of Austen”s narrative techn …

Using the example of The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter to explore the impact of new media and technologies on how children learn about stories and reading, this book investigates nearly 100 …

Offering a model for meaningful dialogue between queer studies and environmental studies, Robert Azzarello”s book traces a queer-environmental lineage in American Romantic and post-Romantic literatu …

Considering as evidence literary texts, historical documents, and material culture, this interdisciplinary study examines the entry into public political culture of women and apprentices in seventeen …

Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early moder …

Archipelagic Identities explores the invention and interplay of national, regional and linguistic identities in the literatures of early modern Britain and Ireland. The volume includes innovative wor …

In his highly theorised and original book, Roger Ebbatson traces the emergence of conceptions of England and Englishness from 1840 to 1920. His study concentrates on poetry and fiction by authors suc …