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Andrew Murphy charts the trajectory of Heaney's career as a poet and places his work within its various contexts.

This book draws together the different aspects of Margaret Drabble's narrative practice, and looks at the increasing flexibility of her narrative methods, both in terms of the kind of narrator used and in the structuring of plot events.

Concentrating mainly on the novels from 1960 to the present day Amanda Greenwood contests critical perceptions of O'Brien as a narrow chronicler of women's inner lives, arguing that O'Brien's writings are not only radical but deeply revealing of the position of women under patriarchy in Ireland and beyond; the later texts suggest the need for revisions of the social and symbolic orders.

An illuminating and lucid study which examines the psychological and stylistic aspects of Djuna Barnes's work, including her modernist classic Nightwood, providing a stimulating introduction to a bold and enigmatic writer in the literary Paris of the 1920s and 1930s

The book's focus is the major satires upon which Swift's literary reputation principally rests, including A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal and the infamous scatological poems.

In this study Emma Smith teases out instances of doubleness, duplication and paradox in Othello.

Concentrating on her most recent collections, this introduction to Canada's greatest short-story writer shows how Munro uses fluid concepts of time to subvert notions of a single fixed reality.

This book is a concise introduction, drawing on the latest research, to the life and work of the most celebrated English poet of the late seventeenth century.

This close and sensitive study shows Christopher Smart (1722-1771) to be one of the finest and most important English religious poets between George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing.

Colin MacCabe's study places T.S. Eliot's poetry in the context of his journeys from philosophy to poetry and from modern scepticism to traditional Christianity, and uses Eliot's life to illuminate his poetry.

This study provides an engaging overview and clear analysis of the fiction, non-fiction and drama of African-American writer James Baldwin ( 1924-1987).

This study offers a close reading of each of Swift's novels, exploring the innovative formal strategies and identifying such recurrent themes as the presence of the past in the present, the blurring of distinctions between 'history' and 'story', fact and fiction, and the possibilities of redemption in a contemporary social and emotional wasteland.

This study offers an informative account of the development of Beckett's prose and drama.

This book illuminates the importance of the inter-relationship between emotion and religion in the poetry of three women poets: Felicia Hemens, Dora Greenwell and Anne Procter of the Romantic and Victorian eras.

This study examines the whole of Frame's output starting with the fiction (novels, short-stories and poems) before focusing on the two autobiographical novels, Owls do Cry and Faces in the Water, to end with the autobiographical trilogy, a sort of restorative prism inviting us to (re) read all her preceding works.

A study of the lives of and works of Anna Barbauld and Mary Robinson.

This study explores the role of ethnicity in Fowles's novels, and his treatment of the past in The French Lieutenant's Woman and A Maggot.

This study provides an accessible introduction to the whole range of Iris Murdoch's fiction, exploring philosophical, theological, political, social and biographical influences and her experimentations with the novel form.

Widely popular throughout the world, Hardy still seems to speak to us, in fiction and in poetry, as our contemporary. In this new edition of his popular study, Peter Widdowson identifies the elements in his work which enable Hardy to be read in this way: the focus on unstable class and sexual relations in a society undergoing rapid change;

This study seeks to explore Brian Patten's position in relation to his fellow "Liverpool Poets" and to contemporary poetry more widely.

This study responds to developments of the sensation novel within literature, television and popular culture, and takes into account recent studies of the genre.

This book offers a stimulating new reading of Shakespeare's last tragedy.

A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts.

Covering the work of all the important women writers of the period, this study introduces readers to a range of women's writing across the breadth of the 17th century.

In this compact, yet wide ranging guide Matthew Woodcock presents a structured introduction to each of Sidney's major works.

This book treats separately all four poems: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain. There are also chapters on: the history of the poems and their rediscovery; The main emphasis falls on interpretation, and on such explanations as a modern reader may require. All quotations cited from the poems are translated as well.

This book traces the great tradition of English translations of Homer, focusing in particular on the contributions of Chapman, Pope, E.V. Rieu and Christopher Logue.