This study of Peter Ackroyd rejects the postmodern label previously attached to the author. It provides a consideration of all Ackroyd's writing to date, from his poetry and critical thought, to his novels and biographies.

The essays in this collection address a diverse range of themes in the work of Jacques Derrida, including Irish identity, communication, ethics, love, tele-technology, Victorian studies, the limits of philosophy, translation, otherness and literature.

Exploring the poetry, drama and prose of early modern Britain, Marion Wynne-Davies combines theory and practice, providing an introduction to key theoretical concepts and close readings of individual texts by both canonical and less well known authors.

Exploring the poetry, drama and prose of early modern Britain, Marion Wynne-Davies combines theory and practice, providing an introduction to key theoretical concepts and close readings of individual texts by both canonical and less well known authors.

A critical survey of the principal themes and styles of literature in England since 1945. John Brannigan examines the complex nature of the relationship between literature and history, society and place, and argues that postwar literature is concerned with themes of social and cultural change.

The essays in this collection address a diverse range of themes in the work of Jacques Derrida, including Irish identity, communication, ethics, love, tele-technology, Victorian studies, the limits of philosophy, translation, otherness and literature.

This guide offers an accessible introduction to two important movements in the history of 20th-century literary theory - formalist criticism and reader-response theory - and addresses a host of theoretical concerns, as well as each field's principal figures and interpretive modes.

To what extent did the Gothic haunt the 19th century? This book seeks to answer this as it introduces the reader to a revision of notions of the Gothic in all its manifestations. The Gothic is found to haunt all aspects of Victorian literature and culture.

The Victorian period was one of enormous cultural diversity with places for figures as different as Alfred Tennyson and Oscar Wilde. This text examines that diversity whilst drawing out the connections between disparate voices.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective to the readers of The Strand Magazine, followed by a second set of stories, The Memoirs. In the twenty three tales collected here you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned.

A critical survey of the principal themes and styles of literature in England since 1945. John Brannigan examines the complex nature of the relationship between literature and history, society and place, and argues that postwar literature is concerned with themes of social and cultural change.

This title aims to show how Cixous offers a new understanding of the relationship between theory and fiction, politics and poetry, one which is most consistently concerned with the complex process of writing itself as an opening to thought.

This guide offers an accessible introduction to two important movements in the history of 20th-century literary theory - formalist criticism and reader-response theory - and addresses a host of theoretical concerns, as well as each field's principal figures and interpretive modes.