British Literature of the Blitz interrogates the patriotic, utopian ideal of the People's War by analyzing conflicted representations of class and gender in literature and film. Its subtitle - Fighting the People's War - describes how British citizens both united to fight Nazi Germany and questioned the nationalist ideology binding them together.

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 five-volume series, British Women's Writing From Bronte to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women's fiction from 1840 to 1940.

This five-volume series, British Women's Writing From Bronte to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women's fiction from 1840 to 1940.

This five-volume series, British Women's Writing From Bronte to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historicallycontextualizes and traces developments in women's fiction from 1840 to 1940.

This five-volume series, British Women's Writing From Bronte to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historicallycontextualizes and traces developments in women's fiction from 1840 to 1940.

Ellis explores the ways in which modernist writers like T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and H. G. Wells witnessed the approach of World War II and how their writings raised profound questions emblematic of the era. No other literary study has looked at the period covered in such detail.

A fascinating and wonderfully readable deconstruction of the countless myths that have grown up around the Brontes. Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing.

The essential miscellany for all Bronte fans.

In the year of Charlotte's bicentenary, a light-hearted miscellany on all things Bronte.

A major new biography of the most modern and the most underrated of English literature's great Victorians.

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.