In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of...
In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding livin...
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.
In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of William Hazlitt, John Keats and Charles Lamb to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of...
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding a...
This study examines the Victorians' obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consciousness, and the expression of this in their drama, novels and poetry. The text describes and analyses what particular writers, readers, visual artists, actors and audiences made of Shakespeare in different fields and forms, featuring detailed discussion of the interpretations and applications of Shakespeare by major artists, writers and critics, as well as those less well known. nostalgia with which Victorians looked back to the Shakespeare of their Romantic predecessors, while the epilogue...
This study examines the Victorians' obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consciousness, and the expression of this in their drama, no...
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of thosefigures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally andinternationally.
In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution ofJames Joyce, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Samuel Beckett to the afterlife andreception of Shakespeare and his works.Each essay assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figurecovered and of that figure on the understanding, interpretation andappreciation of Shakespeare, providing a sketch of its...
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of thosefigures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding an...
