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Reading material in early modern England: print, gender, and literacy
Hardback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005
A study of the literature and its readership of the early modern period
Catholicism and anti-Catholicism in early modern English texts
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999
Responding to recent historical analyses, the essays in this collection focus on polemical, devotional, political and literary texts that dramatize the...
The art of eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
Bevis considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce, and their publics, conceived the relations between public speaking and literary expression. By...
Writing illness and identity in seventeenth-century Britain
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. Observing that medical explanations for...
Imagination and the contemporary novel
eBook. English.
Published
Cambridge: 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...
Deviance in contemporary crime fiction
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
The author conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these...
Women writers and detectives in nineteenth-century crime fiction: the mothers of the mystery genre
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, c2010
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...
Sherlock Holmes in context
eBook. English.
Published
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context....
The progress of romance: the politics of popular fiction
eBook. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 2016
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...
Men of feeling in eighteenth-century literature: touching fiction
eBook. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with...
