Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as ''sensation fiction''. Braddon''s text has been carefully annotated for modern readers in this edition, including documents setting the text in context. '
Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as ''sensation fiction''. Braddon''s text has been carefully annotated for modern readers...
Mary Shelley was a complex and committed social thinker whose novels reveal her deep concern with the impact of the emerging Victorian social dynamic upon the lives of women. In 'Lodore' she tells the story of a woman's journey to reconciliation with her mother.
Mary Shelley was a complex and committed social thinker whose novels reveal her deep concern with the impact of the emerging Victorian social dynamic ...
East Lynne is the story of Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful young woman who leaves her hard-working but neglectful husband and her infant child to elope with an aristocratic suitor. She later returns in disguise and becomes her husband''s governess.'
East Lynne is the story of Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful young woman who leaves her hard-working but neglectful husband and her infant child to elo...
Mary Shelley’s third published novel, The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. The book offers a sweeping account of war, plague, love, and desolation. It is the sort of apocalyptic vision that was widespread at the time, though Shelley's treatment of the theme goes beyond the conventional; it is extraordinarily interesting and deeply moving.
If The Last Man is in some sense a “conventional” text of the period, it is also intensely personal in its origin; Shelley refers in her journal to the last man as...
Mary Shelley’s third published novel, The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. ...
Landon was one of the most celebrated literary figures of 19th century British literature, by the age of 22 she had achieved considerable renown. Her poetry was largely forgotten however, and this is the first 20th century edition of her poems.
Landon was one of the most celebrated literary figures of 19th century British literature, by the age of 22 she had achieved considerable renown. Her ...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself was the first work that influenced the nineteenth-century genre of slave narrative autobiographies. Written and published by Equiano, a former slave, it became a prototype for those that followed.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself was the first work that influenced the nin...
Old English literary history is sketchy, even more so with poetry where there is little internal evidence of place, date, occasion, or author. And there is a paucity of surviving verse about 31,000 extant lines mostly written near the year 1000 in the late West-Saxon dialect, works such as Beowulf,
Old English literary history is sketchy, even more so with poetry where there is little internal evidence of place, date, occasion, or author. And the...
Michael Henchard gets drunk at a fair and se lls his wife and child for five guineas to a sailor. Henchar d proves to be violent, selfish, greedy and crude, yet at th e same time he is magnanimous and humble. '
Michael Henchard gets drunk at a fair and se lls his wife and child for five guineas to a sailor. Henchar d proves to be violent, selfish, greedy and ...
Mary Hay''s first novel, Memoirs of Emma Courtney, transgresses literary and social conventions with its outspoken heroine who pursues the man she loves. It concerns itself with issues of female dependence, sexuality, and woman''s role in society.'
Mary Hay''s first novel, Memoirs of Emma Courtney, transgresses literary and social conventions with its outspoken heroine who pursues the man she lov...
Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre's comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote themselves to a search for evidence in them of supposed deficiencies of 'the female pen,' and to pay as much attention to the playwright's marriages and amorous liasons than to the plays themselves.
Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre's comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote t...
