"After the Modernist literary experiments of her earlier work, Virginia Woolf became increasingly concerned with overt social and political commentary in her later writings, which are preoccupied with dissecting the links between patriarchy, patriotism, imperialism and war. This…
Bringing together leading international scholars of contemporary fiction and modern women writers, this book provides authoritative critical readings of Angela Carter's work from a variety of innovative theoretical and disciplinary approaches.
This is a fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's 73 recently discovered notebooks, including illustrations, deleted extracts, and two unpublished Poirot stories.
This is a fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's 73 recently discovered notebooks, including illustrations, deleted extracts, and two unpublished Poirot stories.
"Virginia Woolf's rich and imaginative use of language was partly a result of her keen interest in foreign literatures and languages - mainly Greek and French, but also Russian, German and Italian. As a translator she naturally addressed herself both to contemporary standards of…
In this study, close readings of Woolf's essays including 'A Room of One's Own', 'Three Guineas' and 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid', as well as several novels, explore Woolf's interrogation of language and the relevance of Virginia Woolf's texts to our current political situ…