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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;

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 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 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 book provides a critical survey and evaluation of Martin Amis' major works, identifying his commitment to stylistic expression and experiment alongside the ways in which his novels have engaged with social, cultural and political issues.

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

This study covers Iain Sinclair's major works, but also seeks to trace the connections between his writings and earlier books of poetry.

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.

David Robb provides a profile of Robert Louis Stevenson's development as a writer.

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

Professor Walder's study asks how successfully Athol Fugard, the South African's dramatist's, work continues the search for reconciliation and harmony in a country still haunted by its terrible past.

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

This book looks at the politics and poetics of the works that reveal Smith to be a self-constructed Romantic and Williams as a mistress of intimate disguise.

This study discusses the range of Samuel Selvon's work, and highlights its niche place in West Indian literature.

A chronologically arranged study, with analysis of each of Waugh's novels. 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of his death.

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.

In this updated second edition, Monteith positions Barker as a supremely contemporary novelist.