Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. Pearl Buck would eventually rise to eminence in America as a bestselling author. This biography recounts her upbringing in China.

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing fortunes of a unique cultural phenomenon.

This Companion offers a comprehensive account of the influence of contemporary British Black and Asian writing in British culture.

This 2004 Companion provides a full introduction to the famed pioneer of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry, Christopher Marlowe.

An illuminating and authoritative guide to Critical Theory by an international team of distinguished contributors.

The first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature and the culture which shaped it.

An overview of British fiction written between the mid-1760s and the early 1830s in its historical and cultural contexts.

A thorough and accessible guide to the Gothic genre.

This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.

This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction.

This Companion offers an in-depth overview of the Beat era, one of the most popular literary periods in America.

This book is an introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. Six essays survey the period's travel writing; six more focus on areas of particular interest; while the final three analyse the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this enigmatic and influential genre of writing.

A wide-ranging and accessible account of the pioneering professional women writers who flourished during the Romantic period.

The history of the book from 1400 to 1557: the transition from manuscripts to printed books.

A student-friendly guide to the life, work, context and reception of the author of Wide Sargasso Sea.

This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Illustrated with works of art and featuring suggestions for further study, this is the ideal introduction to understanding and enjoying modernist literature and art.

This volume is a unique overview of two centuries of short stories from Britain and other English-speaking countries.

An overview of British poetry from 1830 to 1901, with a glossary of literary terms and guide to further reading.

This thoroughly revised second edition of this widely used textbook takes recent developments in the field into account, and includes two new chapters. Organised to be used throughout a narrative studies course, it includes many textbook features, examples and suggestions for further reading.

A major reader of Old English, first published in 2004, with fifty-six annotated texts, a reference grammar and glossary.

This nuanced yet accessible study is the first to examine the range of religious experience imagined in Hopkins' writing. By exploring the shifting way in which Hopkins imagines religious belief in individual history, Martin Dubois contests established views of his poetry as a unified project.

A beautiful fugitive. A secret treaty. A decadent age. And the lost papers of the greatest diarist that ever lived. Tying together historical fiction, espionage and crime, Camille is a historical adventure to mirror a glorious age.