Walt Whitman 
The Wound Dresser – A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington During the War of the Rebellion [EPUB ebook] 

This is the first book-length study of Tennyson”s record of publication in Victorian periodicals. Despite Tennyson”s supposed hostility to periodicals, Ledbetter shows that he made a career-long ha …

This book, the first single volume to collate essays about sixteenth and seventeenth century poetry, explores the remarkable changes that have occurred in the interpretation of English Renaissance po …

This book examines Dostoevsky”s interest in, and engagement with, ‘Slavophilism’ – a Russian mid-nineteenth century movement of conservative nationalist thought. It explores Dostoevsky”s views, as …

First published in 2009, this book investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women’s writing and reading practices. Beginning with an examination of non-fictional diaries and the p …

There is no doubt that the political and cultural map of Europe is in the process of being radically redrawn. Alongside the major upheavals in continental Europe, the British Isles has undergone far- …

First published in 2002. This work examines eight Virginia novels against the background of the political and social concerns of the Jacksonian years in which they were written, arguing that the auth …

This book provides an introductory study of Beckett”s most famous play, dealing not just with the four main characters but with the pairings that they form, and the implications of these pairings fo …

First published in 1980. In this study of Shakespeare”s ten early comedies, from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night, the concept of a dynamic of comic form is developed; the Falstaff plays are se …

First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. The period set in motion a crisis over the statu …

A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare”s reception by figures in Victorian theatre. …