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

What happens when bad criticism happens to good people? Annoying the Victorians sets the tradition of critical discourse and literary criticism on its ear, as w

Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, dev

First book to examine the Romantic poets' engagement with the religious debates that dominated the period.