Dr David Gooblar 
The Major Phases of Philip Roth [PDF ebook] 

Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe”s most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arous …

1590s Drama and Militarism is a fascinating interdisciplinary study of various textual interventions into the military realities of the late Elizabethan period. Its major strength is its insistence o …

Jane Austen is not usually associated with children – especially since she had none of her own. But there are in fact more children in her novels than one might at first think. She herself was from a …

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, ‘The Death of the Author, ‘ argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation beca …

Biblical Limits is a new series which brings to the traditional field of Biblical Studies literary criticism, anthropology and gender-based approaches, thus reaching new ways of understanding Biblica …

Turns a critical eye on Aesop”s Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop”s portrayal of his animals. Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop”s Fa …

First published in 2004. This is Volume III of Postcolonialism part of a series of critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. This edition includes part six on Orientalisms, part seven on Th …

"The fatal glove" is a literary criticism and thrilling book written by Clara August. The book describes the story in a captivating way which follows the journey of Constance Danforth, a yo …

Challenging the longstanding interpretation of the early English public sphere as polite, inclusive, and egalitarian this book re-interprets key texts by representative male authors from the period—A …

This is a well written and valuable study of the life of a familiar but still somehow shadowy figure and an important contribution to medieval intellectual history, with insights into the meaning of …