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This volume offers an analysis of colonial literature in the late Victorian age with a specific focus on the works of Henry Rider Haggard (1865-1925) and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Starting from the investigation of the nineteenth century as a period of great historical complexity, it places colonial narratives in a wide panorama of social and cultural developments, illustrating the role played by both adventure romances and imperial novels on the ideological and epistemic fabric of this age. By considering late nineteenth-century writing in the context of a multifarious background,...

This monograph is focused on Arnold Bennett's fiction whose literary role was very important in the history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century novel in light of the debate between modernism and traditional approach to the craft of fiction.

This volume presents a collection of original and interconnected essays which aim to chart Elizabeth Gaskell s literary imagination by focusing on diverse aspects of her short stories. It includes the papers read at the conference on -Elizabeth Gaskell and the art of the short story-, organized by the Centre for Victorian and Edwardian Studies (CUSVE, -G. d Annunzio- University, Pescara, 2010), to celebrate the bicentenary of her birth. While offering fresh insights into Gaskell s shorter fiction, this collection provides an introduction to the many issues that absorbed her literary...