Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes th
Religious dissent has been a persistent feature of English and Welsh history for over four hundred years, influencing the economic, cultural, and political history of the two nations as well as their
In his role of apostle of the English and promoter of Augustine's mission, Gregory the Great became the subject of what is one of the earliest pieces of literature surviving from the Anglo-Saxon perio
In Fiction and Repetition, one of our leading critics and literary theorists offers detailed interpretations of seven novels: Emily Bronte'sWuthering Heights, Thackeray's Henry Esmond, Hardy's Tess of
A reissue of the popular 1969 volume, this anthology covers a wide range of Middle English literature. Selections are numerous enough to allow professors great variation in the readings for individual
"An invaluable resource to scholars interested in feminist thought.... " —Ruth Perry"Anyone interested in women’s history or feminist thought must read this book." —Lillian Faderman"Moira Ferguson has
Surveys the main periods, movements, figures, the achievements of British literature from Chaucer's time to the 1980s, emphasizing each writer's major work and the continuity of tradition within the g
"A brilliant, original, and powerful book. . . . This is the most skillful integration of feminism and Marxist literary criticism that I know of." So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about The Proper
In this wide-ranging work, the author challenges T. S. Eliot’s belief that "the more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates". Da
