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...
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....
The author and her husband lost their home as a terminal diagnosis took away their future, embarking on the 630 mile South West Coast Path - an experience...
PublishedChicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016
From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life-one without constant, environmentally...
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...