Kim Wilkins 
Young Adult Fantasy Fiction [PDF ebook] 
Conventions, Originality, Reproducibility

First published in 1991, Textual Communication examines the character and development of the novel from Richardson to Nabokov in relation to the printing and publishing industry. The book blends lite …

This work offers an examination of religious texts written by twelve women over three centuries in two languages and three genres, showing the variety and complexity of gendered images available to m …

Marcus Gheeraerts’s portrait of a ’Persian lady’ – probably in fact an English lady in masquing costume – exemplifies the hybridity of early modern English culture. Her surrounding landscape and the …

How and to what extent did women writers shape and inform the aesthetics of Romanticism? Were undervalued genres such as the romance, gothic fiction, the tale, and the sentimental and philosophical n …

This is the ideal guide for those studying contemporary fiction for the first time. The last twenty-five years have seen an explosion of new developments in the English language novel. Because of its …

This book examines the function of repetition in the work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery. All three poets extensively employ and comment upon the effects of repetition, yet represe …

‘My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think… and I can’t stop myself from thinking.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to D …

This study examines Tennyson”s portrayals of the erotic and creative impulses, reading the poet”s ubiquitous lover-artists as tropes that figure the desire for transcending the state of being human …

Libation Bearers is the ”middle” play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus” Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for …