Jem Bloomfield 
Witchcraft and Paganism in Midcentury Women’s Detective Fiction [PDF ebook] 

A handbook in three volumes to a choice of essential books, writers and subjects in order to try to understand the world we live in, about "big questions" and possible answers, about books …

In Part III of Marjorie Bowen’s  »The Rake’s Progress  », the narrative reaches its climax and resolution. This volume focuses on the theme of redemption, as the protagonist grapples with the consequ …

This is the first book-length study to read women of the Beat Generation as feminist writers. The book focuses on one author from each of the three generations that comprise the groups of female writ …

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 This book examines the connections between the growth of »terror fiction » – the genre now known as  »Gothic » – in the late eighteenthcentury, and the simultan …

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading …

At once an invitation and a provocation, The Socio-Literary Imaginary represents the first collection of essays to illuminate the historically and intellectually complex relationship between lit …

Attending to the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a …

First published in 2000. The Other Reconstruction examines groundbreaking works by three African American women whose writings expose the economic, political, and social factors that sustained race v …

Modernism and Its Environments surveys new developments in modernist studies inspired by ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Taking a fresh view of familiar topics in modernist studies suc …

Between May 1930 and August 1935, Dylan Thomas kept numerous notebooks of poems. They contain the drafts of almost all of the work that would form his first two reputation-making collections, 18 Poem …