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The Imagist Poets revises the received view of Imagism by drawing upon current re-readings of modernism in terms of gender and sexuality, cultural geography, and the idea of literary institutions and formations.

In this study, Robert Miles argues that many of the reasons for Austen's construction as an English Cultural icon are to be found in the works' formal qualities, and often in her most innovative techniques.

This lucid and perceptive study subjects the Emily Bronte myth to radical scrutiny, questioning the validity of memorabilia and eye-witness accounts.

This book provides a clear account of the development and the scope of the sonnet form in Britain.

Pre-Romantic Poetry questions existing approaches to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing, and to period-based study more generally.

This study critically explores satire's dominant literary forms and examines the work of its outstanding practitioners.

This is a fascinating critical study of the work of Aphra Behn, probably the most inventive and original woman writer of the 17th century.

This study provides an overview of Barnes' career and then offers a discussion of each of the novels written in his own name.

This study explores Basil Bunting's poetry position as a point of inspiration for younger poets, and describe the ways in which it acts as a platform to show that Anglo-American modernism was not incompatible with native traditions.

This book studies Penelope Fitzgerald's writing and the compositional method behind it.

This accessible critical introduction, written by a leading expert, highlights W.G. Sebald's double role as writer and academic.

This study explores how Jack London's Northland odyssey - along with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a hardscrabble youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, and an acute craving for social justice - launched the literary career of one of America's most dynamic 20th-century writers.

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies.

This study provides the first sustained consideration of Forrest-Thomson's poetry, and of the relationships between her work and that of the language writers.

This book is concerned with the fiction and drama of the period, the poetry having been the subject of a separate book in the Writers and their Work series.

This introductory study helps to set the Georgians in their original context, and revises the critical balance in favour of three lesser known writers whose contribution to early twentieth-century letters was viewed as significant before the 1930s.

This study examines David Lodge's work from The Picturegoers (1960) to Therapy (1995).

This study explores Hughes' lifelong concern for language and his use of mythology and history, while examining his poetic achievements, together with his writing for children and his experiments with forms of theatre.

This book offers the intelligent new reader a critically evaluative guide to Keats's major poems and letters.

This study builds upon the radical reinterpretations of Christina Rossetti that have emerged in the last two decades.

This study discusses the range of Olive Schreiner's work, including her novels, The Story of an African Farm, Undine, and From Man to Man; her feminist tract Woman and Labour and short fictions and allegories about the position of women; and her diverse writings about South Africa, her country of birth.

This book looks in detail at several of the most notable English-language poets of the Second World War, and also provides an overview of the other remarkable poetry about it, helping readers to evaluate the true significance of the Second World War on English-language poetry.

Kenneth Parker gives a historical and critical exposition of commentaries of the play. of 'Rome' as the measure by which it, as well as 'Egypt' should be read) are not simply questioned, but instead, close reading of the text of the play providesa comprehensive set of alternative readings based upon mostly postcolonial and feminist theories.

This account of Wilmot's work strives to place it in its socio-political context and describe the way the poet and his work were co-opted after his premature death to serve contrasting political agendas.

A critical introduction to the work of the English novelist Elizabeth Taylor.

In this study Julie Sanders reveals the concern that the public theatre playwriting of Massinger, Ford, Shirley and Brome had towards issues of community and hierarchy in the decades leading up to the English Civil Wars.

This book introduces Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetry and prose through its wide-ranging engagements with nature, language, science, philosophy, theology, prosody and social issues.

This first full-length study of Grace Nichols's work argues that, rather than exploring the tension between its 'Caribbeaness' and 'Britishness', it is more productively read in terms of a series of border crossings.

This book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley's thought and major writings.

Elisabeth Bronfen examines Sylvia Plath's poetry, her novel The Bell Jar, her shorter fiction as well as her autobiographical texts, in the context of the resilient Plath-Legend that has grown since her suicide in 1963.