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This study provides the first sustained consideration of Forrest-Thomson's poetry, and of the relationships between her work and that of the language writers.

E.J. Clery's analyses women's gothic in the light of the contemporary fascination with the operation of the passions and tragedy.

This is a comprehensive study, questioning Lord of the Flies' status as Golding's most popular and important work and giving prominence to The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, The Spire and The Sea Trilogy.

This study concentrates on Graham Greene's achievements as a novelist whose work spanned more than sixty years, and was translated into forty languages.

This accessible critical introduction, written by a leading expert, highlights W.G. Sebald's double role as writer and academic.

This introductory study helps to set the Georgians in their original context, and revises the critical balance in favour of three lesser known writers whose contribution to early twentieth-century letters was viewed as significant before the 1930s.

In this study, Robert Miles argues that many of the reasons for Austen's construction as an English Cultural icon are to be found in the works' formal qualities, and often in her most innovative techniques.

This book provides a clear account of the development and the scope of the sonnet form in Britain.

In the new edition of her highly regarded study, Laura Marcus examines a wide range of Virginia Woolf's novels, short stories, essays and autobiographical writings in the context of themes and topics of central contemporary relevance and interest: time, history and narrative;

This book offers the intelligent new reader a critically evaluative guide to Keats's major poems and letters.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of Margaret Atwood's poetry, novels, shorter fiction, children's books, criticism and experimental multi-genre work.

This study explores how Jack London's Northland odyssey - along with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a hardscrabble youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, and an acute craving for social justice - launched the literary career of one of America's most dynamic 20th-century writers.

Kenneth Parker gives a historical and critical exposition of commentaries of the play. of 'Rome' as the measure by which it, as well as 'Egypt' should be read) are not simply questioned, but instead, close reading of the text of the play providesa comprehensive set of alternative readings based upon mostly postcolonial and feminist theories.

A comprehensive introduction to working-class literature over the last 150 years.

This study provides an accessible introduction to the whole range of Iris Murdoch's fiction, exploring philosophical, theological, political, social and biographical influences and her experimentations with the novel form.

This study provides an overview of Barnes' career and then offers a discussion of each of the novels written in his own name.

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.

This first full-length study of Grace Nichols's work argues that, rather than exploring the tension between its 'Caribbeaness' and 'Britishness', it is more productively read in terms of a series of border crossings.

This book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley's thought and major writings.

Elisabeth Bronfen examines Sylvia Plath's poetry, her novel The Bell Jar, her shorter fiction as well as her autobiographical texts, in the context of the resilient Plath-Legend that has grown since her suicide in 1963.

Lerner's study relates poetry to Larkin's life, and to the literary and social environment of post-war Britain; discusses the Larkin persona, and Larkin's relation to literary criticism; and above all seeks to guide readers to a full appreciation of the power and subtlety of Larkin's best poems.

Examining the whole range of J.G. Ballard's writings, from the early science fiction stories to Cocaine Nights (1996), Delville's study offers a critical and theoretically informed analysis of his achievements as a novelist and a commentator on contemporary culture.

This book examines why the form of the detective 'whodunnit' narrative has proved so tenacious, and plots a course through the thousands of crime novels and stories which have appeared since the narrative was established.

This volume traces the scope and development of Caryl Churchill's theatre from her early writing for radio and television, through her stage career of the 1970s and 1980s to her recent major success Far Away (2000).

This study looks at Duffy's work from her early development and involvement with the Liverpool poets in the 1970s, through to her most recent collection.

In this study Julie Sanders reveals the concern that the public theatre playwriting of Massinger, Ford, Shirley and Brome had towards issues of community and hierarchy in the decades leading up to the English Civil Wars.

Drawing on biographical information, letters, reminiscences and anecdotes, John Lucas pieces together Gurney's difficult, indeed tragic life, in order to show that Gurney's poetry, while undoubtedly affected by his mental problems, his trench experiences in World War One, and his complex relationship to Gloucester, the Cotswalds and London, is the sane utterance of a deeply radicalized writer.