In this volume, Joseph Coulombe argues that Native American writers use diverse narrative strategies to engage with readers and are 'writing for connection' with both Native and non-Native audiences.

Mellor makes the persuasive argument that to understand Second World War British culture one must understand the ruined and fragmented cityscapes that it responds to. Of relevance to literary critics and cultural historians, and featuring famous and forgotten authors, this book makes modernism - and war literature - look vividly different.

Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books.

A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners

Featuring awe-inspiring illustrations and representing the gamut of fantastic creativity from Gilgamesh to Ursula K. Le Guin, from Beowulf to the Brontes, and from The Dark Crystal to the Dark Souls franchise, Realms of Imagination is a treasure trove of new perspectives and fresh discoveries.

Redefining Elizabethan Literature explores one of the most remarkable decades in English literary history, the 1590s, focusing on the changing perceptions of the aesthetic as an autonomous sphere of activity. Combining theoretical perspectives with close textual readings, Brown sheds light on the central preoccupations of Elizabethan literary culture.

A compilation of 35 years' worth of critical essays from one of the boldest and most articulate cultural theorists of our time

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist and a full-length study of the novel.

Relearning to Read invites you to turn the way you read upside down and see what falls out. Drawing on the author's hit blog ayearofreadingtheworld.com, the book puts not-knowing centre stage and plays with what examining the gaps in our understanding.

A guide to writing fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we tell stories, and the craft of writing fiction.

Arthur F. Marotti analyzes some of the means by which the Catholic minority and the Protestant majority defined themselves and their religious and political antagonists in early modern England. In the period between the arrival of the first Jesuit missionaries in England in 1580 and the climax of ongoing religious conflict in the Restoration-era.

Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown.

Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown

The Remembered Dead explores the ways poets of the First World War - and later poets writing in the memory of that war - address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in conflict. It looks closely at the way poets struggled to represent death, trauma, and grief.

Explores the ways poets address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in the First World War and beyond.

This title is a collection of essays on the structures and strategies of Early Modern culture as embodied in issues of gender, sexuality and politics by a group of critics from the new generation of Early Modern specialists.

A fresh and unusual perspective on the literary, Catherine Pickstock argues that the mystery of things can only be unravelled through the repetitions of fiction, history, inhabited subjectivity, and revealed event.

The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel