The handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, when this genre emerged to develop into the period’s mos

Traces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.

In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the m

Conversing in Verse considers when and why poets turn to conversation to explore and expand the potential of poetry.

This first collected discussion of Pater's significance for English literary criticism reveals his importance in shaping the principles of Modernist criticism a