Dr David Gooblar 
The Major Phases of Philip Roth [PDF ebook] 

Looks at the lives and politics of four of the key players in the independence and labour movements of the 19th century: Daniel O”Connell (1775-1847); Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91); Michael Davi …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why was Milton so important to the Romantics? How did ”Milton th …

This book chronicles travel writings of Bengali women in colonial India and explores the intersections of power, indigeneity, and the representations of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ in these writings. …

Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV). Her association with figures such as Wi …

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare”s World explores Shakespeare”s complex art of insults and shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many of his plays. It provides valuable in …

"The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe: Or, There’s No Place Like Home" by Amanda M. Douglas is a charming children’s literature book that brings to life the classic nursery rhyme in a delightf …

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 …

This book shows that education constitutes the central metaphor of John Milton”s political as well as his poetic writing. Demonstrating how Milton”s theory of education emerged from his own practic …

This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language, attempting to move beyond some of the obstacles and boundaries of contemporary critical approaches. By providing a ph …

‘Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh’ (Michael Billington, Guardian) Michael Frayn is a playwri …