This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from…

This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic…

The dark, destructive and monstrous elements of gothic fiction have traditionally been seen in opposition to the rose-tinted idealism of Romanticism. In this ground-breaking study,…

Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, has fascinated critics and readers alike, engaging them in highly controversial debate as it deals with fundamental issues of…

Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to…

The book provides an original investigation of the double trope as a central area of Dicken’s writings in their relation to Victorian culture, using this…

The importance of understanding Dickens's religion to obtain a full appreciation of his achievement has long been admitted; but this is the first critical study…

As a woman in an illegal marriage, publishing under a male pseudonym, George Eliot was one of the most successful yet controversial writers of the…

Medical, popular, and literary understanding about the imagination converged when Thomas Willis asserted that he had discovered the area of the brain that facilitated imagining.…