John Kirk 
Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland [PDF ebook] 

1590s Drama and Militarism is a fascinating interdisciplinary study of various textual interventions into the military realities of the late Elizabethan period. Its major strength is its insistence o …

Jane Austen is not usually associated with children – especially since she had none of her own. But there are in fact more children in her novels than one might at first think. She herself was from a …

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, ‘The Death of the Author, ‘ argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation beca …

Biblical Limits is a new series which brings to the traditional field of Biblical Studies literary criticism, anthropology and gender-based approaches, thus reaching new ways of understanding Biblica …

Turns a critical eye on Aesop»s Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop»s portrayal of his animals. Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop»s Fa …

This is a well written and valuable study of the life of a familiar but still somehow shadowy figure and an important contribution to medieval intellectual history, with insights into the meaning of …

First Published in 2005. Whitman»s Ecstatic Union rereads the first three editions of Leaves of Grass within the context of a nineteenth-century antebellum evangelical culture of conversion. Though …

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer»s work, enabling students and research …

Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe»s most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arous …

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 …