"Memory and War in Early Modern England" examines depictions of the construction and destruction of the male body in combat in relationship to early modern...
A revealing journey through Shakespeare's work and the Elizabethan world that gave rise to it. Emphasises the ongoing ambiguities and difficulties of...
The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem explores how cultural responses to the trauma of the First World War found expression in the...
PublishedEdinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018
These comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship...
Responding to recent historical analyses, the essays in this collection focus on polemical, devotional, political and literary texts that dramatize the...
Bevis considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce, and their publics, conceived the relations between public speaking and literary expression. By...
This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. Observing that medical explanations for...
PublishedCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
John Su explores literary responses from across the Anglophone world to the profound economic, social and political shifts that have occurred since the...
The author conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these...
This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and...