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...
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...