Why might interdependence, the idea that we are made up of our relations, be horrifying? Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence argues that philosophy can outline the contours of the dark spectre, and that film can shine a light on its shadowy details, together revealing a horror of relations.
Brokering Culture radically recontextualizes conventional views of the relationship between the British Empire and the emergence of the nineteenth-century historical novel. The author focuses on how literary translations of eighteenth-century experiences of empire established the genre as a site of critique for nationalism and historical progress.
Dickens & Women ReObserved is a rich collection of new essays by scholars and critics from various parts of the world who represent a new appreciation of Charles Dickens and things woman. This is an important work for comprehending one of the world's greatest novelists and facilitating greater study of contemporary views of Victorian women.
Geraldine Jewsbury's works focussed on the chief concerns of her day including social change, the education of women, marriage, and faith. Jewsbury (1812 - 80) was an English novelist, book reviewer and prominent figure - best known for her popular novels.
Gothic influences in criminal science, the detective and Doyle's Holmesi
Sensation novels are considered as the link between the Gothic genre and detective fiction. Del Grazia provides an exhaustive introduction to the creation of the character of Sherlock Holmes, and an examination of first instances of crime fiction - comparing the works of Gaboriau, Poe, Collins and Dickens.
This is a significant new and accessible work on the leading modern American novelist whose works - notably Gravity's Rainbow, which won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction - remain mysterious to many, just as his life remains reclusive.
This is a detective story about what happened next in the past. It prompts us to ask how we might know what we don't know we don't know. It is illustrated with 150 illustrations in colour.The work is focused on people and their inclinations, as book buyers and not only as book borrowers.
This is an enlarged edition of Professor Beer's widely acclaimed volume on George Eliot which initially appeared in the `Key Women Writers' series issued by The Harvester Press.
The first book in the new series, `Writers and their Contexts', to be published by EER. Who is more open with posterity than Anthony Trollope? What other Victorian novelist of eminence exposed himself more frankly than the Chronicler of Barsetshire? Or did he...
