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Ellen Glasgow
Using a variety of critical approaches - including semiotic, intertextual, and biographical - these fifteen essays cover the full range of Glasgow's writings, from well-known novels such as Virginia, Barren Ground, and The Sheltered Life to less familiar works such as The Battle-Ground, The Wheel of Life, the verse collected in The Freeman and Other Poems, and the short stories.
The Chained Boy
Study of William Blake's radical thought in light of his major works, such as Jerusalem (1804-20).
Tragedy Walks the Streets
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Byron's Ghosts
The first book-length examination of spectrality in Byron’s work, this critical collection questions the popular image of Byron as a sceptical or ‘anti-Romantic’ poet and in so doing reveals a great deal about his work.
Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott
This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton
This volume explores the history and practice of historicism and its present usefulness for literary criticism, its limitations and its future.
Saint and Hero
This work is a historicist analysis of the Old English poem Andreas from the Vercelli Book.
Shelley's Textual Seductions
First published in 2002. This book surveys how and to what effect Shelley uses erotic narratives to mask political rhetoric within his attempts to describe and bring forth utopia. Posing erotic relationships as both an exemplar of the inequities of power and a paradigm for alternative social orders that dismantle oppressive structures, it argues Shelley’s work imagines a space where the rigidity of tyranny succumbs to the liberation of ecstatic union. From the Romantics to the Aesthetes, it argues that this model contributed to a counter-tradition in British literature which situates the erotic as a trope for political discourse. This work will be of interest to students of literature.
Displacing Female Bodies on the Eighteenth-Century Stage
Displacing Female Bodies on the Eighteenth-Century Stage is driven by a central question: why were women playwrights in the Romantic period obsessed with silencing their female characters, pushing them off the stage, and announcing the removal of their own texts to the closet? These playwrights were some of the most well-known and commercially successful writers of their era, but were paradoxically also among its most marginalized figures: they were mocked by largely conservative audiences, suffered intense criticism for placing their works on display before the public eye, and frequently found their plays rejected by theater managers in favor of works by established male playwrights. This b...
Rebellious Hearts
Examines the full spectrum of women's participation in the social, economic, religious, and poetic debates surrounding the French Revolution.
