Essays & Studies   

Essays exploring interrelated strands of material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing, through a rich variety of case studies.

An exploration of the legacy of The Waste Land on the centenary of its original publication, looking at the impact it had had upon criticism and new poetries across one hundred years.

Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts.

New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature.

Essays exploring the opportunities for and challenges to the discipline of English language and literature in education.

The notion of what it means to “distort” a text is here explored through a rich variety of individual case studies.

New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focussing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.

Essays on the writing and textual culture of Europe in the middle ages.

Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards.

The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles.

Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens’ vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today.

A powerful claim for the virtues of a more thoughtful and collegiate approach to the academy today.

The popularity of Gothic fictions, themes and films suggests that the genre is the norm as much as the dark underside of contemporary cultural production.

Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts, edited by Elaine Treharne, University of Leicester

The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets, written by scholars from Britain and North America, offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus re-discovered writers.

Contemporary British Women Writers Edited by Emma Parker, University of Leicester ISBN: 1843840111 First published May 2004 £30.00 / US$60.0 Despite the enduring popularity of contemporary women’s writing, British women writers have received scant critical attention. They tend to be overshadowed by their American counterparts in the media and have come to be represented within…

Fiction and film interrelate closely to each other, and the specially commissioned essays in this volume all consider different aspects of this relationship.

Slavery as depicted in literature and culture is examined in this wide-ranging collection.

Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.

How do writers work? The differing habits of seven great authors are examined in this collection.

New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts.

From a range of perspectives, the essays in this volume tackle some of the most urgent issues facing the creative writer in today’s academic institutions.