This is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary newspapers and periodicals, the archives of the Royal…
What is a hangover? How does it feel to suffer from one? What can hangovers tell us about the way attitudes to alcohol have developed over time? In the humanities, why have we neglected the subject of the hangover in our critical discussions of alcohol and intoxication?0In the f…
What is a hangover? How does it feel to suffer from one? What can hangovers tell us about the way attitudes to alcohol have developed over time? This book sets out to answer these questions and many others by examining 'hangover literature' from the Renaissance to the present da…
Jonathan Shears offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. He devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets, contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton with a range of historical, aesthetic and theoretical contexts and d…