Two centuries after his birth in October 1795, John Keats occupies a secure place in the canon of great literature of the western world. But for much of the nineteenth century and even during periods
Focussing on specific writers and texts, Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War examines literary responses to the Great War. It underscores the futility of imposing a single perspecti
The motifs of island and shipwreck have been present in literature and the arts from ancient times. The essays in this volume explore shipwreck and island figures together in literary texts, films, Re
This volume provides a critical reappraisal of Stoker’s Dracula by examining various adaptations of the book, as well as different literary, cinematic, theatrical, cultural, artistic and creative rewo
Scholars analyze silence in Irish literature from the perspectives of psychology, ethics, places, and spirits. Their topics include theaters and pathologies of silence: symbolism and Irish drama fr
This volume demonstrates the significance middlebrow writing had for the dissemination of new concepts of gender to wider audiences. By exploring the media culture between 1890 and 1930 it gives evide
Horlacher presents a collection of academic essays and scholarly papers focused on the ongoing reconfiguration of masculinity in the study of British literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth a
A specialist volume for postmodernist academic scholars of English literature, this book is about theory and psychoanalysis. Classical psychoanalysis defined a set of "partial objects,&qu
