Literary Periods
From Dickens to Dracula
Gail Turley Houston examines how the language and imagery of economics are transformed in Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of the period.
Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England
Using analysis of literary texts, this study examines the ideological underpinnings of the heated controversies surrounding powerful royal favorites and the idea of favoritism in the late Elizabethan and early Stuart period.
Keats and Romantic Celticism
The Celtic Revival began more than a century before Yeats and the Irish Literary Renaissance.
Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism
This is the first book devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 - a key period comprising both the Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in British literary history.
Literature and Science
A survey of the interaction between science and Anglo-American literature from the late medieval period to the 20th century, examining how authors, thinkers, and philosophers have viewed science in literary texts, and used science as a window to the future.
British Romanticism and the Edinburgh Review
The bicentenary of the foundation of the 'Edinburgh Review' has provided the foremost scholars in the field with the opportunity of re-examining the pervasisve significance of the most important literary review of the Romantic period.