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"After examining the words of sacred works and philosophical arguments supporting peace, this book traces chronologically the ways in which English poets have presented pacifist beliefs. It is ideal for study on Peace and Conflict Studies courses around the world, while for lite…
Marketing Literature is a timely, original and important study of the publishing of contemporary writing in Britain. It analyses the changing social, economic and cultural environment of the publishing industry in the 1990s-2000s, and investigates its impact on genre, format, pa…
A study of the publishing of contemporary writing in Britain, this title analyses the changing social, economic and cultural environment of the publishing industry in the 1990s-2000s, and investigates its impact on genre, format, packaging, authorship and reading.
London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making of London analyses the body of exceptional work by writers who have unconditionally committed their writing to the many lives of a city undergoing complex transformations. The bo…
Leading scholars explore a range of male bad behaviors in order to challenge the notion that early modern London was a corrupt city that ruined innocent young men.
This book brings together the experiences of Anglo-American teachers and discusses some of the challenges which face teachers of nineteenth-century fiction, suggesting practical ways in which these might start to be overcome by considering the constantly changing canon, issues r…
Machine generated contents note: Series Preface * Notes on Contributors * Introduction; A. Maunder & J. Phegley * The Canon: Mapping Writers and Their Works; J.M. Allan * Theory and the Novel; J. Wolfreys * Empire; P. Brantlinger * Interdisciplinarity and Cultural Contexts; T. M…
Romanticism and the Object explores ways in which European Romantic culture and its artifacts were shaped by 'object aesthetics, ' a new and often disruptive use of objects in literary expression.