Explores the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared.

The Romantic author as spontaneous, extemporizing, otherworldly, and autonomous is a fiction much in need of revision. Many Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Byron, and Mary Shelley revised their works. This volume unveils the revisionary practices of these writers, showing that second thoughts in fact played a crucial role in composition.

Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. This celebratory collection of tercentenary essays testifies to the book's endurance, analysing its literary, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural implications in historical context.

Reynard was once the most popular and beloved character in European folklore. Expanded with new interpretations, innovative language and characterisation, this edition is an imaginative re-telling of the Reynard story and as relevant and controversial today as it was in the fifteenth century.

This book explores the early modern interest in conversation.

New paperback of this incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke,exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry

In the space of a single generation, three eighteenth-century writers - Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding - invented an entirely new genre of writing: the novel. This book explains why these authors wrote in the way that they did, and how the complex changes in society - the emergence of the middle-class and more.

Robert Cormier is widely recognised as one of the leading authors of young adult fiction. This collection of brand new essays demonstrates a variety of critical approaches to Cormier's work, including his best-known novels and lesser-studied texts. It offers an accessible examination of the author's considerable impact on children's literature.

Robert Cormier is widely recognised as one of the leading authors of young adult fiction. This collection of brand new essays demonstrates a variety of critical approaches to Cormier's work, including his best-known novels and lesser-studied texts. It offers an accessible examination of the author's considerable impact on children's literature.

Hugely popular subject, written by an award-winning comedian. Based on author's successful stage show. Author very well-known and well-connected within the comedy industry.

Rock Songs started as a one-man movement performance of a river by Nick Sales and has become a book of poetry, reflection, ecology and zen reflection. It's illustrated with extensive photography by Steve Hopkins and beautifully designed by Christopher Binding.

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is one of France's most important writers and theorists of the second half of the twentieth century. Andy Stafford offers a clear-sighted, readable account of Barthes' work and life. This cogent introduction to a vital figure will interest students and specialists alike.

The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.

Advertisements for soap. The image of a film star. We accept these common objects as a normal part of our life. But each also carries hidden messages that none of us even suspect - as Barthes demonstrated in his unique analysis of the signs that generate meanings and assumptions we all take for granted.

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'.

This book considers a moment at the turn of the nineteenth century, when literature and medicine seemed embattled in rivalry, to find the fields collaborating to develop interpretive analogies that saw literary texts as organic bodies and anatomical features as legible texts.

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.

While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea-shops. In this multi-awardwinning book, the author tells a different story.

Explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century -- .

The first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to the African diaspora, this study explores connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. Thomas reveals a dialogue between two diverse cultural spheres, and their corresponding systems of thought, epistemology and expression.

Providing a new framework for understanding the contingent self, this book is of interest to scholars and students of Romantic literature, philosophy of the self and digital humanities.