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 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 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 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 ...
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 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.
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.
A new translation of Un rio, un amor (One River, One Love) by Luis Cernuda (1902-1963). Written in France and Spain in 1928-1929, this collection reflects the influences, conflicts and impulses that governed the poet's life then and is faithful to the author's quasi-Surrealist intentions.