This collection covers the lyrical poetry of Mary Shelley, as well as her writings for Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography" and some other materials only recently attributed to her

This study reappraises Sir Thomas Wyatt (c.1504-1542) as a poetic innovator. It discusses Wyatt's reflections on the writing process, and his awareness of how words can be turned in new directions - that is, rewritten, amended, transformed, manipulated, even performed - over the course of a text's production, transmission, and reception.

A study of metafiction - fiction in which an important theme is its own fictional status - in Soviet literature. It questions previous treatments of metafiction and suggests a framework for new approaches to Soviet literary history.

The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In this book, scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens's imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic.

A biographical and critical account of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889) and his involvement with religion and literature, specifically Christian poetry. Included are accounts of his contemporaries, such as Christina Rossetti and John Henry Newman.

King James is well known as the most prolific writer of the Stuart monarchs, publishing works on numerous topics and issues. This title provides an examination of James' writings within their original Scottish context, their political implications and their role in his management of his religio-political reputation both at home and abroad.

A new account of Elizabethan diplomacy with an original archival foundation, this book examines the world of letters underlying diplomacy and political administration by exploring a new material text never before studied in its own right: the diplomatic letter-book.

Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction's uncertain, and until now, only partially explored terrain.

This volume broadens the critical understanding of Ann Radcliffe's work and includes explorations of the publication history of her work, her engagement with contemporary accounts of aesthetics, her travel writing, and her poetry. It was originally published as a special issue of Women's Writing.

Focusing on the Lives of Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, North explores how biographies by writers including Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, both perpetuated and, by revealing private weaknesses and domestic failures, challenged the myth of 'the Romantic poet'.

Considers a range of English Romantic autobiographical writers and modes, including working-class autobiography, the familiar essay, and the staged presence. This work features essays on the scandalous "Memoirs of Mrs Billington" and on Joseph Severn's autobiographical scripting of himself as 'the friend of Keats'.

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is the first full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose.

Contextualizing British short fiction within the broader framework of early nineteenth-century print culture, the author argues that authors and publishers sought to present short fiction in book-length volumes as a way of competing with the novel as a legitimate and prestigious genre.

This handbook scrutinises the links between English literature and religion, specifically in the early modern period; the interactions between the two fields are explored through an examination of the literary impact the British church had on published work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

By considering both male and female friendships, this book uncovers parallels between them in novels and poetry by authors such as Dickens, Tennyson, Disraeli and Braddon. It also examines conduct manuals, periodicals, and religious treatises, tracing developments from mid-century to the fin de siecle, when romance first came under serious attack.

This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Focusing on the dominant format of the single-play quarto playbook, it juxtaposes analysis of print and manuscript evidence to present a detailed picture of how plays were read, why, and by whom.

This study examines the transmission and compilation of poetic texts through manuscripts from the late-Elizabethan era through the mid-seventeenth century, paying attention to the distinctive material, social, and literary features of these documents.

A re-examination of Jane Austen's Anglicanism. It draws connections between Austen's experiences with the clergy, liturgy, doctrine, and religious readings and their fictional parallels in the novels. It shows how orthodox Anglican concepts such as natural law and the Great Chain of Being resonate in Austen's work.

This volume comprises 15 critical essays written by some of the most eminent Romantic scholars in academia. The essays survey the oeuvre of Mary Shelley as it developed beyond Frankenstein, and evaluate her career in terms of her intellectual and political accomplishments.

This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Presents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain.

This companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology. This major work in attribution studies presents in full the evidence behind the choices made in The Complete Works about which works Shakespeare wrote, in whole or part.

This work records full details of all known prose novels in English first published in the British Isles from 1800-1829. It includes new discoveries, attributions to a range of novelists and the first English translations of much Continental popular fiction.