The handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, when this genre emerged to develop into the period’s mos

Examines the interrelationship between Caribbean narratives and British fiction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), often termed the father of the motion picture, presented his iconic Animal Locomotion series in 1887. Produced un

In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the m

Conversing in Verse considers when and why poets turn to conversation to explore and expand the potential of poetry.