Friendship has always been a universal category of human relationships and an influential theme in literature, but it is rarely discussed as a trope in its own right. In her study of how friendship sh
Contributing to our understanding of the complex interplay of philosophical, socio-cultural and literary discourses that shaped British fiction in the later Hanoverian decades, Berndt's book demonstra
The first four contributions in this collection discuss heroism in generic perspective, addressing the battle for the soul, Gothic conventions, and Rowling's web of allusions, among other topics. The
