Studies in Major Literary Authors
About the Book Series
Studies in Major Literary Authors features outstanding scholarship on celebrated and neglected authors of both canonical and lesser-known texts.
Ready to Trample on All Human Law: Finance Capitalism in the Fiction of Charles Dickens
1st Edition
By Paul A. Jarvie
April 23, 2015
This book explores the relationship between Dickens’s novels and the financial system. Elements of Dickens’s work form a critique of financial capitalism. This critique is rooted in the difference between use-value and exchange-value, and in the difference between productive circulations and mere ...
The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton: Locality, Patriotism, and Nationalism
1st Edition
By Joseph R. McCleary
April 23, 2015
This study examines a selection of Chesterton’s novels, poetry, and literary criticism and outlines the distinctive philosophy of history that emerges from these writings. Looking at Chesteron's relationship with and influence upon authors including William Cobbett, Sir Walter Scott, Belloc, Shaw, ...
Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry
1st Edition
By Suzanne Bailey
February 27, 2015
Current work on speech pragmatics and visual thinking calls for a radical reassessment of the problem of obscurity or difficulty in Robert Browning’s work. In this innovative study, Bailey reinterprets Browning's life and work in the context of contemporary theories of language and attention, ...
Djuna Barnes, T. S. Eliot and the Gender Dynamics of Modernism: Tracing Nightwood
1st Edition
By Monika Lee
February 27, 2015
This study looks at the origins of the modernist movement, linking gender, modernism and the literary, before considering the bearing these discourses had on Djuna Barnes's writing. The main contribution of this innovative and scholarly work is the exploration of the editorial changes that T. S. ...
The Artistry and Tradition of Tennyson's Battle Poetry
1st Edition
By Timothy J. Lovelace
December 22, 2014
Many readers are aware of Alfred Tennyson's treatment of legendary battles in such poems as Boadicea, The Revenge, Battle of Brunanburh, and Achilles over the Trench. Yet among Tennyson's most neglected works are his first battle poems, pieces that reflect the poet's immersion in the literature of ...
Unnoticed in the Casual Light of Day: Phillip Larkin and the Plain Style
1st Edition
By Tijana Stojkovic
December 22, 2014
Larkin's poems are often regarded as falling somewhere between the traditional 'plain' and the more contemporary 'postmodern' categories. This study undertakes a comprehensive linguistic and historical study of the plain style tradition in poetry, its relationship with so-called 'difficult' poetry,...
'All the World's a Stage': Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's Novels
1st Edition
By Charlene Bunnell
September 11, 2014
This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of thetheatrum mundi, world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels....
Dickens's Secular Gospel: Work, Gender, and Personality
1st Edition
By Chris Louttit
September 11, 2014
The first full-length study on the subject of Dickens and work, this book reshapes our understanding of Dickens by challenging a critical oversimplification: that Dickens's attitude towards work reflects conventional expressions of Victorian earnestness of the sort attributed also to Thomas Carlyle...
Reading and Mapping Hardy's Roads
1st Edition
By Scott Rode
September 11, 2014
This book examines Thomas Hardy's representations of the road and the ways the archaeological and historical record of roads inform his work. Through an analysis of the uneven and often competing road signs found within three of his major novels - The Return of the Native, Tess of the ...
Sex Theories and the Shaping of Two Moderns: Hemingway and H.D.
1st Edition
By Deirdre Anne McVicker Pettipiece
September 11, 2014
This book examines the impact of scientific and sexologic theories on the creation of character in the prose of two moderns, Hemingway and H.D....
Naked Liberty and the World of Desire: Elements of Anarchism in the Work of D.H. Lawrence
1st Edition
By Simon Casey
August 12, 2014
In this new and original study, Simon Casey explores the long-neglected link between D. H. Lawrence and philosophical anarchism. Focusing on the writings of some of the major anarchists-with particular emphasis on Stirner, Godwin, Bakunin and Thoreau-this book argues that the conceptual parallels ...
Queer Times: Christopher Isherwood's Modernity
1st Edition
By Jamie Carr
August 12, 2014
This book maps Christopher Isherwood's intellectual and aesthetic reflections from the late 1930s through the late 1970s. Drawing on the queer theory of Eve Sedgwick and the ethical theory of Michel Foucault, Carr illuminates Isherwood's post-war development of a queer ethos through his ...