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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 …
Ian McEwan
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 …
New Women Writers of the Late Nineteenth Century
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. Chapter one provides an …
Christopher Smart
This close and sensitive study shows Christopher Smart (1722-1771) to be one of the finest and most important English religious poets between George Herbert and Gerard Manley …
Sir Walter Scott
Providing a brief account of the life of Sir Walter Scott, this text charts his development as a poet and novelist, and justifies his claims to attention as a major 19th century …
Robert Louis Stevenson
This study offers concise critical discussions of Stevenson’s whole range of prose fiction, from New Arabian Nights to The Ebb-Tide. His most famous novels are covered as well as a …
Kazuo Ishiguro
In 2017 the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Kazuo Ishiguro, 'who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of …
Iris Murdoch
Reviews ‘Anne Rowe, a scrupulous Murdoch scholar of many years’ standing, has written a slim but comprehensive overview of the writer’s career, attending successively to aspects of …
Hanif Kureishi
This study evaluates Kureishi’s contribution to contemporary British fiction; his screen plays, novels and plays evoke a multicultural London peopled by sexually liberated …
Samuel Selvon
The first full-length study of Selvon that covers all aspects of his fictional world – poems, radio dramas, short fiction, and novels. It shows the evolution of Selvon as fledging …