Literary Criticism : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Come in! said Peter Hope. Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the...

Is the pastoral dead? Gifford adds fuel to the fiery debate in this lively examination of contemporary and classical nature writing. He begins by clarifying ......

Day considers the history and usage of the term and the changing views and debates which surround it. A range of writers - canonical and non-canonical - are ......

The following remarks on the study of Celtic Literature formed the substance of four lectures given by me in the chair of poetry at Oxford. They were first p......

Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English ......

Playing on both minds and emotions, this academically innovative book reveals the resourceful and often poignant ways that Indigenous Australi......

This third in a series continues this non-academic author's ground-breaking word by word analysis of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Joyce's last blessing on m......

An innovative study of two of EnglandÂs most popular, controversial, and influential writers, Father and Son breaks new ground in examining the relationship ......

Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries reinstates Stevenson at the center of critical debate and demonstrates the sophistication of his writings and th......

Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, The Country Girls, award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. Praised for ......

Recognizing the dramatic changes in Old English studies over the past generation, this up-to-date anthology gathers twenty-one outstanding contemporary criti......

This book explores what the commercial revolution of the seventeenth century meant to the greatest poet of the era, John Milton, and the broader literary tra......

In this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel......

"Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England" surveys Jane Austen's entire oeuvre, and places her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on......

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writ......

Sails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays whe......

Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether a......

Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose a highly interesting question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing ......

Highly recommended . . . Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto. -......

Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom's African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cul......