Charlotte Bronte 
Shirley [EPUB ebook] 

If Greek tragedy is sometimes regarded as a form long dead and buried, both theatre producers and film directors seem slow to accept its interment. Originally published in 1986, this book reflects th …

This book examines how debates over copyright law in the United States during the nineteenth century, particularly over the lack of an international copyright law, intersected with the business pract …

Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the ”eye” and the ”I” in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vi …

First published in 1969, provides a helpful introduction to the study of Absurdist writing and drama in the first half of the twentieth century. After discussing a variety of definitions of the Absur …

‘Terence Cave”s work has made a major contribution to the rethinking of the relationship between literature, history and culture over the last half-century. Retrospectives brings together substantia …

‘This work examines the genetic processes that shaped two of the great literary masterpieces of modernity: Flaubert”s ”L”Education Sentimentale” and Proust”s ”A la Recherche de Temps Perdu”. A …

John le Carré and the Cold War explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré”s major Cold-War novels. The first in-depth study of le Carré this century, this book analyses …

Presenting a remarkable set of previously unpublished papers, this book concerns the bewitchment, possession and exorcism of two seventeenth-century nuns living in exile in an English convent in the …

In the summer of 1876, Mark Twain started to write Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a detective novel surrounding the murder of Huck’s father, Pap Finn. The case is unresolved in the novel as it exi …

Effervescent Adventures with Britannia is the latest addition to Wm Roger Louis”s stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia. It draws upon a distinguished array of writers and scho …