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Chinua Achebe
This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing. Since the publication of …
V.S. Naipaul
In this comprehensive study Suman Gupta provides a critical evaluation of the work of V.S. Naipaul up to the present, analysing his ideological and artistic development over five …
Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s
This study investigates Louis MacNeice in two major central strands. Firstly, it explores MacNeice’s ambiguous positioning as an Irish poet. As the Ulster-born son of a Home Rule …
Thomas Kyd and Early Elizabethan Tragedy
A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical …
Oscar Wilde
Since he first began publishing his work in the 1880s, Oscar Wilde has been a controversial figure. Although celebrated by any of his contemporise for his witty and iconoclastic …
E.M. Forster
Nicholas Royle presents a new Forster – one that has emerged from the posthumous publication of his explicitly homosexual fiction (since 1971) and from new critical attention to …
As You Like it
One of the best loved of Shakespeare’s ‘middle comedies’, As You Like It has rarely been out of the theatrical repertoire. Centring on the cross-dressed figure of Rosalind, the …
Two Scots Chaucerians
Robert Henryson (c.1420–c.1506) and William Dunbar (c.1459–c.1530) are the two Scottish poets in whom the debt to Chaucer is most apparent. Although it has been argued that the …
The English Short Story: V. 1
A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical …
Edward Bond
Edward Bond has been, since his controversial arrival on the theatrical scene in 1965, one of Britain's most distinctive and important theatre writers. This study examines his …
Carol Ann Duffy
In 2009 Carol Ann Duffy became the first female Poet Laureate to much public acclaim. This study looks at Duffy’s work from her early development and involvement with the Liverpool …