This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context....
First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous...
Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with...
Recently, historical fiction has been at the cutting edge of postmodern reconceptualizations of the past and of contemporary worlds. This collection of...