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Reading Victorian Fiction
A study of the interrelationship of the Victorian novel with other forms of writings, arguing that the whole literary culture was concerned with the production of Victorian values, …
Close Reading Without Readings
Dealing mainly with the works of William Shakespeare, the essays in Close Readings without Readings reflect Stephen Booth’s lifelong interest in uncovering the ways great …
Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book
Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book examines the historical and the fictionalized reception of Ovid’s poetry in the literature and books of Tudor England. It does so through …
Women Reading Shakespeare 1660–1900
Women reading Shakespeare, 1660–1900 comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare. Since Margaret Cavendish published the first critical essay on …
Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre
Dickens' novels, like those of his contemporaries, are more explicitly indebted to the theatre than scholars have supposed: his stories and characters were often already public …
Reading Blake's Songs
First appearing in 1981, this book was the first full-length study of the Songs of Innocence and Experience to be published in almost fifteen years. The book provides detailed …
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Aurora Leigh'
Introduces new readers and students to a celebrated and controversial Victorian novel-poemMichele Martinez guides readers through the poem's major themes and literary and …
Reading Hardy's Landscapes
Reading Hardy's Landscapes locates the essential energy of the novels in the descriptive details as much as in the story. The emphasis is on the author's habits of vision and …
Reading Humility in Early Modern England
While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Jennifer Clement argues here, it is central to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century understandings of Christian …
Carnal Reading
The question of an erotic readership has always vexed scholars. With little evidence of anyone's actually reading erotic material, scholars have had to make do with variations of …
Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England
This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording favourite passages and reflecting upon what …