Love, Mystery and Misery

Coral Ann Howells

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• The current Gothic revival in literature and film encourages us to look again to the earliest Gothic novels written beween 1790 and 1820, when Gothic ... Lees meer

The Literary Criticism of T.S. Eliot

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• In his time T.S. Eliot established a new critical orthodoxy by which no major modern critic in England or America remained unaffected, but a decade ha... Lees meer

Chaucer and Langland

George Kane

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• Professor Kane is widely regarded as the leading middle English textual and literary scholar of our time and this collection of his essays will be wid... Lees meer

Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'

Mary Lascelles

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• In devoting a whole book to Measure for Measure Miss Lascelles has expressed her conviction that in no other way can the sharp divisions of opinion wh... Lees meer

Boccaccio in England

Herbert G Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• Professor Wright's objective is to see Boccaccio in relation to the personality of the writers to whom he appealed and simultaneously to observe the c... Lees meer

The Appropriate Form

Barbara Hardy

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• In this substantial essay on the novel (first published in 1964) Barbara Hardy distinguishes three integral aspects of the art of fiction - story, the... Lees meer

Librarianship and Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• These essays are produced in honour of the seventieth birthday of Dr J. H. Pafford, Goldsmith's Librarian of the University of London from 1945 to 196... Lees meer

The Existential and Its Exits

L A C Dobrez

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• The book fills a significant gap in modern critical studies. Hitherto, there has been no considered attempt to relate Existentialist thought to contem... Lees meer

Augustan Studies

Geoffrey Tillotson

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• It is still true that most readers of eighteenth-century poetry approach it by way of nineteenth-century poetry; they know what Wordsworth said about ... Lees meer

The Fable as Literature

H J Blackham

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• This is a study of a curious and neglected facet of literature, in which the author traces the development and the uses of fable in Euopean literature... Lees meer

Tudor Verse Satire

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• This volume brings together examples of English verse satire written during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, interpreting satire widely to... Lees meer

Fiction and the Fiction Industry

J a Sutherland

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• This topical, lively and wide-ranging book examines the material conditions under which the contemporary English novel is produced and consumed. Its s... Lees meer

Boswell and Johnson

J F Waller

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• Boswell and Johnson are two names that may well be placed together: a great artist and his great subject; indeed the name of the one ever recalls that... Lees meer

Theory and Personality

Brian Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• T. S. Eliot's literary criticism is often described as 'the criticism of a poet'. Mr Lee asks what happens if we take that description seriously and r... Lees meer

The Filibuster

D G Bridson

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• Wyndham Lewis, as writer and painter, was one of the great creative geniuses of this century and also one of the most neglected. A large part of the c... Lees meer

Making of the Modern Canon

Jan Gorak

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• This important contribution to the canon debate is remarkable in examining the actual process of canon formation from threee unusual and complementary... Lees meer

Mid-Victorian Studies

Geoffrey Tillotson, Kathleen Tillotson

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• This collection of lectures, broadcasts, reviews, and articles (several of which have not previously been published) embraces many aspects of the Engl... Lees meer

The Heart's Events

Patricia M Ball

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• Dr Ball offers an analysis and evaluation of a number of Victorian long poems and groups of lyrics which trace the course of close personal relationsh... Lees meer

Frail Vessels

Hazel Mews

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• The years between the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and of John Stuart Mill's essay On the Subjection... Lees meer

The Story-Shaped World

Brian Wicker

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• Story-telling, since its earliest beginnings, has drawn its power not simply from the intrinsic fascination of a skilful narrative but from the fact t... Lees meer

The Active Universe

H W Piper

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• This book is a study of 'Romantic Pantheism' and its part in the development of the Romantic theory of the Imagination. The crucial point in the histo... Lees meer

Enchanted Ground

Arthur Johnston

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• The beginnings of modern literary scholarship in Britain are studied in this volume, which traces the emergence between about 1760 and 1810 in the wor... Lees meer

Thackeray at Work

J a Sutherland

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• The study of Thackeray's major fiction reconstructs the novelist's working methods with the help of manuscript material, much of it previously unpubli... Lees meer

Piers Plowman

George Kane

• Hardcover | Engels | Collections: English Literary Criticism
• The major edition of the three versions of Piers Plowman which the Athlone Press is in the process of publishing and of which Professor Kane is the ge... Lees meer