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This volume traces the scope and development of Caryl Churchill's theatre from her early writing for radio and television, through her stage career of the 1970s and 1980s to her recent major success Far Away (2000).

This study looks at Duffy's work from her early development and involvement with the Liverpool poets in the 1970s, through to her most recent collection.

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

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.

Professor Beer's study provides an introduction to the whole range of Edith Wharton's work in the novel, short story, novella, travel writing, criticism and autobiography.

Drawing on biographical information, letters, reminiscences and anecdotes, John Lucas pieces together Gurney's difficult, indeed tragic life, in order to show that Gurney's poetry, while undoubtedly affected by his mental problems, his trench experiences in World War One, and his complex relationship to Gloucester, the Cotswalds and London, is the sane utterance of a deeply radicalized writer.

Steven Connor's book is an animated, accessible critique to the whole range of Joyce's work, from Dubliners through to Finnegans Wake. It contains a revised bibliography and critical evaluation, taking account of the ever-rowing corpus of literary criticism of Joyce and his work.

A comprehensive introduction to working-class literature over the last 150 years.

Describing The Temple as ... 'not simply a collection of poems but ... a record of the spiritual struggles of a man of intellectual power and emotional intensity who gave much toil to perfecting his verses ...' T.S. Eliot considered Herbert's religious verse above John Donne's and placed him firmly in the ranks of the great English poets.

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

This is a comprehensive study, questioning Lord of the Flies' status as Golding's most popular and important work and giving prominence to The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, The Spire and The Sea Trilogy.

This study concentrates on Graham Greene's achievements as a novelist whose work spanned more than sixty years, and was translated into forty languages.

This study shows how Yeats moved from passionate identification with the idea of Ireland in his early work, through a period in which he re-emphasizes his Anglo-Irish inheritance and its difference from that of Catholics, to a new sense of unity in his later work, founded on the belief that the Gaelic and the Anglo-Irish aristocracies were fundamentally alike.

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

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 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.

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 book offers a critical examination of Harold Pinter's dramatic writing over four decades, from The Room (1957) to Celebration (2000), emphasising the worth of the plays as pieces written for performance, investigating their status as dramatic (as opposed to literary) texts.

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

This book explores Kazuo Ishiguro's uses of memory and its unreliability in narrative, his manipulations of desire and how humans reinterpret worlds from which they feel estranged.

This study argues that Romeo and Juliet, perhaps Shakespeare's most popularly-known play, repays thorough investigation - read afresh, the play is an extraordinary exploration of domestic conflict, social relations and linguistic practice.

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.

In the new edition of her highly regarded study, Laura Marcus examines a wide range of Virginia Woolf's novels, short stories, essays and autobiographical writings in the context of themes and topics of central contemporary relevance and interest: time, history and narrative;

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.

John Lucas's unique volume reveals a knowing and articulate poet writing as an essentially oral artist.

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

This book offers a comprehensive overview of Margaret Atwood's poetry, novels, shorter fiction, children's books, criticism and experimental multi-genre work.

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