In 1906, Nello Vernon-Wood (1882–1978) reinvented himself as Tex Wood, Banff hunting guide and writer of "yarns of the wilderness …
By the time she was 24, Virginia Woolf had suffered a series of devastating losses that later she would describe …
A dictionary of the observable world features definition-first organization; passages from the writings of James, Updike, and others; and words …
The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth …
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) has been described variously as the successor to Edgar Allan Poe, a master of the Gothic …
A horn is an instrument either for protection or destruction. The "horn" in the Horn of Africa has for so …
The maximalist novel has a very strong symbolic and morphological identity. Ercolino sets out ten particular elements which define and …
Indian Science Fiction has evolved over the years and can be seen making a mark for itself on the global …
Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as …
Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. In following the twists and …
Now that literary critique's intellectual and political pay-off is no longer quite so self-evident, critics are vigorously debating the functions …
Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at …
The first multi-disciplinary scholarly consideration of the Victorian Gothic These 14 chapters, each written by an acknowledged expert in the …
'The dead travel fast and, in our contemporary globalised world, so too does the gothic.' Examining how gothic has been …
This second volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in British, American …
This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, …
The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern …
The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between …
“Hamlet” by Olivier, Kaurismäki or Shepard and “Pride and Prejudice” in its many adaptations show the virulence of these texts …
Gathers 14 of Gordon S. Haight's essays on the life and work of Victorian authors and artists, among them George …
Ronald Schleifer offers a powerful reassessment of the politics and culture of modernism. His study analyzes the transition from the …
Out of print and scared to death -- You were an accident, 1922-1940 -- One of the biggest fools on …
In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through a biography of fifteen of Kurt Vonnegut’s …
The author analyses the various conversations that occur between the characters in the Jonah narrative and the 'conversation' that occurs …
Milton's radically aggressive English prose emerged from a dynamic rhetorical milieu. A rhetoric of radical excess developed among the Puritan …
