Kevin J. Hayes 
Poe and the Printed Word [PDF ebook] 

This book describes Charles Dickens as an ordinary man who by being perfectly tuned to the public taste developed into a master of his art. The clue to this paradox lies, in the author’s opinion, in …

Death, Men and Modernism argues that the figure of the dead man becomes a locus of attention and a symptom of crisis in British writing of the early to mid-twentieth century. While Victorian writers …

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and i …

British Chinese Writings: Subjectivity, Identity and Hybridity” is a study of British Chinese literature. As Dr Hsiao points out, investigation of British Chinese writings is a little studied area; …

Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and …

This wonderful resource from two authors with an infectious enthusiasm for children”s literature will help readers select and share quality books for and with young children. Specifically focused on …

The ”city view” forms the jumping off point for this innovative study, which explores how the concept of the city relates to the idea of the self in early modern French narratives. At a time when p …

Over the last decade there has been an intense and widespread interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books; yet there remains surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe as a …

Hillary M. Nunn here traces the connections between the London public”s interest in medical dissection and the changing cultural significance of bloodshed on the early Stuart playhouse stage. Consid …

Timely and politically pertinent, this collection of essays links the fields of women’s studies and cultural studies, examining women’s desires and women as objects of desire. Working in diverse disc …