... 0333658027 ( pbk . ) Notes : Includes bibliographical references ( p . 222-248 ) and index . Subjects : King , Stephen , 1947 --- Criticism and interpretation . Horror tales , English -- History and criticism . Horror tales , American ...

The previous two volumes of this acclaimed anthology set forth a globally decentered revision of twentieth-century poetry from the perspective of its many avant-gardes.

This volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of ...

This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.

David Simpson's reading of Wordsworth examines Wordsworth's reaction to changes in the modern world at the turn of the century.

Postal Pleasures adds a new dimension to studies of the era as it uncovers the unlikely linkage between the Victorian Post Office and the queer networks it inspired.

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn?

Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and ...

Focusing on the novels of Eliot, Hardy, Gissing, and Conrad, and the theater of Ibsen, Matz argues that it was the transformation of Victorian realism into satire that granted it immense moral authority, but that led ultimately to its ...

Crammed with information, The Brontës in Context shows how the Brontës' fiction interacts with the spirit of the time.