Literature & Poetry

The first collected edition of over three decades of exquisite criticism - of art, television, film, and literature - by one of America's most beloved writers.

This book explores Sir Angus Wilson's many faces as a writer and investigates the ways in which his literature depicts people who undergo a crisis and/or collapse of self-belief, and then have to find the courage to invent themselves anew.

Concentrating mainly on the novels from 1960 to the present day Amanda Greenwood contests critical perceptions of O'Brien as a narrow chronicler of women's inner lives, arguing that O'Brien's writings are not only radical but deeply revealing of the position of women under patriarchy in Ireland and beyond; the later texts suggest the need for revisions of the social and symbolic orders.

This is the first full-length study of Marina Warner's work.

This study examines the scope and depth of Neil Gunn's work and assesses him as a writer of European stature.

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

This book explores contemporary anxieties over language and genre in Johnson's literature.

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

This book views the Victorian quest romance genre in the light of debates within the then nascent sciences of Anthropology and Archaeology.

This is a comprehensive study, questioning Lord of the Flies' status as Golding's most popular and important work and giving prominence to The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, The Spire and The Sea Trilogy.

Drawing on Bakhtinian theory, Ailsa Cox looks at ways in which Munro develops the short story's affinity with the present moment to suggest a fluid and ever-changing reality.

This study celebrates the work of Clough and his literature of continental thought and anti-poetry.

Alethea Hayter's book appraises Charlotte Yonge as a writer, not simply as a symptom of her times, surveying her non-fictional studies in history, onomastics and wild-life as well as her family chronicles, historical novels and children's books.

This book is a concise introduction, drawing on the latest research, to the life and work of the most celebrated English poet of the late seventeenth century.

This book is a concise introduction, drawing on the latest research, to the life and work of the most celebrated English poet of the late seventeenth century.

This critical analysis highlights the extremism of Swiftian satire and its off page menaces.

Professor Watts's study examines the main phase in Joseph Conrad's literary development.

This book draws together the different aspects of Margaret Drabble's narrative practice, and looks at the increasing flexibility of her narrative methods, both in terms of the kind of narrator used and in the structuring of plot events.

This is a fascinating critical study of the work of Aphra Behn, probably the most inventive and original woman writer of the 17th century.

Presents a study that shows how, after extensive 'practice' in the Juvenilia, Bronte developed subtlety in the use of narrators, structure, language, imagery and allusion to create novels open to constant reinterpretation in print and on film.