'She liked lies...To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to...

This collection of fourteen essays highlights both the singularity of personal reading experience...

Recent developments in cultural history and literary criticism have suggested new ways of address...

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.'Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating...

'All Hogglestock believed their parson to be innocent; but then all Hogglestock believed him to b...

In The Value of the Humanities prize-winning critic Helen Small assesses the value of the Humanit...

The Lifted Veil (1859) is now one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works.

Tracing and re-evaluating the role of cynicism within literature, public moralism, and critical p...

New essays by prestigious thinkers such as Edward Said, Bruce Robbins, Jacqueline Rose, and Stefa...

The first major consideration of old age in Western philosophy and literature since Simone de Bea...

'In Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since bee...

Amy Small-McKinney has published two chapbooks of poetry, Body of Surrender (2004) and Clear Moon...