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Holstun Pamphlet Wars
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 208.00The English Revolution of 1642-60 produced an explosion of stylistically and ideologically diverse pamphlet literature. The essays collected here focus on the prose of this new revolutionary era, and the new public sphere it helped to create. They cover a wide range of topics including the Royalist attack on the Sectarian Babel and the street theatre... more...
The Life Writing of Otherness
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively "other," and inclusively human, and how these conflicting aspects of selfhood interact. more...
Small World
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2012; US$ 16.99At times angry and despairing, these poems evoke hospital conditions and social attitudes toward the ill, but focus on the intricate reality of living day to day and trying to bring memory to bear on the future. In this collection, ?The Patient? suffers a brain hemorrhage, causing the poet to carefully examine the days before and after this heartbreaking... more...
Air's Appearance
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 36.00In Air’s Appearance , Jayne Elizabeth Lewis enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works. She shows how diverse conceptions of air in the eighteenth century converged in British fiction, producing the modern literary sense of atmosphere and moving novelists to explore the threshold between material and... more...
Modern Selves
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 57.95This book discusses gender and autobiography, and the politics of autobiography. It offers examples of ways of making sense of individual works or groups of works. more...
Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95Jarvis addresses a significant gap in modern scholarship on travel writing: its contemporary reception. Drawing on formal reviews, journals, letters, autobiographies, commonplace books and marginalia, Jarvis analyses the impact made by travel books on North America during an era of transatlantic strife. Attentive to the role of the periodical press,... more...
Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 64.95Building on a revival of scholarly interest in the cultural effects of early 19th-century periodicals, the essays in this collection treat periodical writing as intrinsically worthy of attention not a mere backdrop to the emergence of British Romanticism but a site in which Romantic ideals were challenged, modified, and developed. Contributors to... more...
The Language of Criticism (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95First published in 1966, the Language of Criticism was the first systematic attempt to understand literary criticism through the methods of linguistic philosophy and the later work of Wittgenstein. Literary critical and aesthetic judgements are rational, but are not to be explained by scientific methods. Criticism discovers reasons for a response,... more...
Selected Poems
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2012; US$ 9.99From his first wartime collection evoking a generation?s experience of a country made strange by blackouts and air raids to the consolatory wisdom of poems written later in his life, Great Britain?s Roy Fuller was a poet of the familiar and ordinary made extraordinary. Mundane details, observed with the author?s tolerant humor and acute eye, reveal... more...
Teaching the Early Modern Period
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 32.95This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education. The volume sets out a variety of approaches to teaching the period and aims to revitalize the connection between teaching and research. more...









