This book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian newspapers in their fictions.

Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content.

A study of the wealth of meanings that 'Persia' - real or imagined - held for Victorian poetryTakes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to a significant strand

Charting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing whic

Building on the growing critical engagement with globalization in literary studies, this book confronts the paradox that at a time when transnational human move