Literature & Poetry

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies.

This book, the first book-length study of D.M. Thomas' work, suggests that what troubles people about Thomas' work is the way it presents literature as a complex process of collaboration, translation, and improvisation.

In this study Barbara Hardy concentrates on Henry James' writing from 1900 to 1916, observing language and theme in close readings of The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, The Sacred Fount, the great ghost-story, The Jolly Corner and other tales, autobiography, travel and influential criticism.

This book offers the intelligent new reader a critically evaluative guide to Keats's major poems and letters.

This book highlights the ways in which Amis' novels remind us that fiction can be as engaging and immediate as television and film, but also that the medium of language is more effective than either of these in its ability to consume our anxieties, doubts and pleasures.

Drawing on recent feminist and literary scholarship, Jane Moore plots the tensions in Mary Wollstonecraft's argument for female independence, mapping her ambivalence about sexual matters onto her quest for love.

This study critically explores satire's dominant literary forms and examines the work of its outstanding practitioners.

This text charts Sir Walter Scott's development as a poet and novelist.

This study looks at new ways of exploring the Piers Plowman's complex allegorical form and argues for the text to be read as a far-reaching critique of the social and sacred models that were the foundation of Langland's world.

This study examines Thackeray's writings, including novels, shorter fiction, journalism and criticism.

This study of Anthony Trollope looks particularly at the nature and quality of his political intelligence and at his grasp of processes of manipulation, personal interaction, media/press exploitation and the integration of the private and the public, whilst also assessing Trollope's continuing popularity as a writer.

This study casts back over Achebe's writing career to assess his considerable contribution to postcolonial writing and criticism, including his Editorship of Heinemann's acclaimed African Writers Series which has shaped African literature for international audiences since 1962.

This book argues that D M Thomas, while best known for his bestselling novel The White Hotel, is one of our foremost fictional innovators, continually stretching the boundaries of the novel to find a suitable form to reflect the the impact of the uniquely violent, often nightmarish events of our times,on ...

This study critiques Laurence Sterne's work in the light of modern literary theory, questioning whether he was an artist before his time.

The romances of Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick and Billy Budd, Sailor, are usually examined from some setting almost exclusively American. European or other planetary contexts are subordinated to local considerations. But while this isolated approach plays well in an arena constructed on American ...

In the first book-length study to date, Susana Onega's assessment of Ackroyd's literary identity treads the entire range of his writings.

A critical analysis of foremost Indian novelist Shashi Deshpande.

In this comprehensive study Suman Gupta provides a critical evaluation of the work of V.S. Naipaul up to the present, analysing his ideological and artistic development over five decades within the numerous cultural contexts he has addressed.

A fresh account of the development and achievement of the novelist and essayist who became Britain's greatest political writer of modern times.

This study breaks new ground by exploring the hitherto overlooked role of ethnicity in Fowles's novels, and his idiosyncratic treatment of the past in The French Lieutenant's Woman and A Maggot.