This work discusses the varied history of British television drama from its beginnings on the BBC in the 1930s and '40s to its position at the beginning...
This edition provides more detailed coverage of domestic legal sources, and in particular the treatment of Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish sources...
PublishedManchester: Manchester University Press, 2001
This text shows how the 19th-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact...
Despite a huge appetite for cultural comment, the status of the literary critic is in decline. Dr McDonald's book explores the reasons behind this contradiction...
Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' and...
'Novel Definitions' captures the lively critical debate surrounding the invention of the English novel, showing how the rise of the novel is accompanied...
PublishedCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
A study of Victorian culture, providing literature students with in-depth contextual material, and students of history a stimulating overview of the 19th...
Kenneth C. Steven makes his living as a poet and writer. In this guide he shows anyone how to get taken seriously as a poet and how to get poetry published...