Jerome McGann 
Byron and Romanticism [PDF ebook] 

The Confessions of the Critics shatters a certain silence. Autobiographical criticism has until now skated relatively free from the challenges that usually assail a new literary critical method. It h …

Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, Oliver Lovesey examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and Bhabha …

Reading groups have grown rapidly in popularity and continue to be a significant cultural phenomenon. Reading groups in public libraries, linked to the learning and social inclusion agenda, have expa …

First published in 1971. This collection of contemporary reviews of the five major English Romantic poets – Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelley – makes available the critical documents of …

First published in 2005. Volumes in the Medieval History and Culture series include studies on individual works and authors of Latin and vernacular literatures, historical personalities and events, t …

This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong”o”s fiction. Brendon Nicholls argues that mechanisms of gender subordination are strategically crucial to Ngu …

Addressing a neglected aspect of John Clare”s history, Sarah Houghton-Walker explores Clare”s poetry within the framework of his faith and the religious context in which he lived. While Clare expre …

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 …

Defoe”s Writings and Manliness is a timely intervention in Defoe studies and in the study of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature more generally. Arguing that Defoe”s writings insistently r …

Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book examines the historical and the fictionalized reception of Ovid’s poetry in the literature and books of Tudor England. It does so through the study of a part …