This book rethinks Victorian biography and some of its major practitioners from the perspectives ...

A fascinating study of the intellectual links between evolutionary science and literature.

Several new readings, crossing the fields of history, literature, sociology, anthropology and his...

The concept of culture, now such an important term within both the arts and the sciences, is a le...

Originally published in 1999, Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque is the first fully ...

This collection begins with two premises: that our understanding of the nature and forms of creat...

Edinburgh Critical Guides to LiteratureSeries Editors: Martin Halliwell & Andy Mousley This serie...

The transition between high school and university is not an easy one. There are unfamiliar subjec...

Edinburgh Critical Guides to LiteratureSeries Editors: Martin Halliwell & Andy Mousley This serie...

The English Novel and Prose Narrative provides an astute, wide-ranging and accessible critical in...