The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. EAch volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
This volume contains extracts of William Makepeace Thackeray’s early fiction and journalism in the 1830s and 1840s. In his early career, Thackeray wor..
Challenging the widely held assumption that gothic literature is mainly about fear, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American Gothic, and got..
Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century nonfiction and fiction, Weber examines the transatlantic cultural poli..
Arguing that the Bildungsroman is humanist culture's own origin story, Feder draws on the work of biologists in her examination of works by Voltaire, ..
Mary Tighe's unpublished courtship novel Selena is one of the great unknown treasures of British Romanticism. Based on the only known copy of the manu..
Ann C. Colley examines archival accounts of tourists and female climbers, technological advances, and theatrical spectacle to trace the evolution of t..
Jackie C. Horne examines little-studied robinsonnades, historical novels, and didactic history books to show how changes in the writing of history for..
How the rise of book illustration affected the historic hegemony of the word is the topic of Keri Yousif's study of the complex relationship between t..
Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writi..
Jean Arnold explores the role material objects play in the cultural cohesion of the West, arguing that gems symbolized the most closely held beliefs o..
Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a convincing case for the symbiotic relationship between literary..
Proposing a new approach to Jamesian aesthetics, Daniel Hannah examines the complicated relationship between Henry James's impressionism and his handl..