Irvin Leigh Matus 
Shakespeare: The Living Record [PDF ebook] 

This essay collection examines one of the most fearsome, fascinating, and hotly-discussed topics of the long eighteenth century: masculinity compromised. During this timespan, there was hardly a lite …

The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction explores the importance of comedy in contemporary literature and culture. In an era largely defined by a mood of crisis, bleakness, cruelty, melancholia …

Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers writing today. Featuring a substantial new interview with Ben Okri hims …

"The Recreations of a Country Parson" by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd offers a reflective and insightful portrayal of rural life through the lens of a country parson. Set in the Victorian …

"The City of Pleasure, A Fantasia on Modern Themes" Part III" by Arnold Bennett delves deeper into the complexities of modernity and the urban transformation that characterized the Edw …

"Ormond, Or, The Secret Witness" Volume 3 by Charles Brockden Brown continues the gripping American Gothic tale set in 18th-century Philadelphia, delving deeper into themes of psychological …

Shakespeare»s international status as a literary icon is largely based on his masterful use of the English language, yet beyond Britain his plays and poems are read and performed mainly in translati …

First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both a …

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page»s historical, socio-cultura …

Where does Shakespeare fit into the drama of his day? Getting to know the work of Shakespeare»s contemporaries offers an insight into Elizabethan and Jacobean preoccupations and the theatrical clima …