Literary collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Shakespearean Educations: Power, Citizenship, and Performance

by Coppélia Kahn, Heather S. Nathans & Mimi Godfrey

Shakespearean Educations expands the notion of 'education' beyond the classroom to literary clubs, private salons, public lectures, libraries, primers, and theatrical performance. This collection challenges...

The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

by Jarlath Killeen

Oscar Wilde's two collections of children's literature, The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), have often been relegated to the margins in studies of his work. In this,...

Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism

by Syrithe Pugh

Royalist polemic and a sophisticated use of classical allusion are at the heart of the two 1648 volumes which are the focus of this study, yet there are striking differences in their politics and in the ways...

Cricket, Literature and Culture: Symbolising the Nation, Destabilising Empire

by Anthony Bateman

In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature, Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the...

Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women's Fiction

by Andrea Adolph

Examining female characters in Barbara Pym, Angela Carter, Helen Dunmore, Helen Fielding, and Rachel Cusk, Andrea Adolph focuses on how women's relationships to food are used to locate women's embodiment within...

The Globalization of Irish Traditional Song Performance

by Susan H. Motherway

Susan Motherway illustrates the transformative impact of globalization on Irish traditional song performance by examining the ways in which performers mediate the divide between local and global markets. The...

Reforming Trollope: Race, Gender, and Englishness in the Novels of Anthony Trollope

by Deborah Denenholz Morse

Trollope the reformer and the reformation of Trollope scholarship in relation to gender, race, and genre are the intertwined subjects of eminent Trollopian Deborah Denenholz Morse's radical rethinking of Anthony...

Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830: From Local to Global

by Evan Gottlieb & Juliet Shields

Surveying the literary and cultural landscapes of the long eighteenth century, this collection examines the many locales that shaped Britons' affiliations and identities. Essays on individual authors, a variety...

Thirteen Stories by Fitz-James O'Brien: The Realm of the Mind

by Wayne R. Kime

Designed to appeal to both general and specialist readers, this volume presents a group of works by O’Brien (1828-1862), an early innovator in the short story form, that explore one of his special interests–the...

Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities

by Jonathon Shears & Jen Harrison

Taking up the phenomenon of bric-à-brac in Victorian culture, this collection advances our understanding of materiality by examining the miscellaneous, moveable and rejected objects often overlooked in the...

Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez: An Animal Studies Reading of Early Modern Spain

by John Beusterien

To date, no scholarly history of early modern Spanish dogs has been published. Aside from carrying out this task, this book evaluates the representation of dogs in the work of the artist Diego Velázquez and...

Scotland, CEMA and the Arts Council, 1919-1967: Background, Politics and Visual Art Policy

by Euan McArthur

As a case study of the relationship between arts and cultural policy and nationalism, this book examines the overlooked significance of Scotland in the development of British arts policy and institutions. Euan...

Machiavellian Encounters in Tudor and Stuart England: Literary and Political Influences from the Reformation to the Restoration

by Alessandro Arienzo & Alessandra Petrina

Taking into consideration the political and literary issues hanging upon the circulation of Machiavelli's works in England, this volume highlights how topics and ideas stemming from Machiavelli's books-including...

Epistolary Community in Print, 1580-1664

by Diana G. Barnes

Focusing on six examples of printed letters from the period, in this study Diana Barnes develops a genealogy of epistolary discourse in early modern England. She considers how the examples-from the writings...

The Conquest of Happiness

by Bertrand Russell

The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell's recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes...

The English Year: A Literary Journey Through the Seasons

by Peter Buckingham

"Hard is his heart that loveth naught in May."  —Geoffrey Chaucer

"Male glow-worms, attracted by the light of the candles, come into the parlour. The distant hills look very blue."  —Gilbert White

Join some...

Ireland's 1916 Rising: Explorations of History-Making, Commemoration & Heritage in Modern Times

by Mark McCarthy

In light of its upcoming centenary in 2016, this book explores why, how and in what ways the memory of Ireland's 1916 Rising has persisted over the decades? It breaks new ground by offering a wide-ranging exploration...

The Shout

by Simon Armitage

Now in paperback, the powerful selected work of Simon Armitage, the most distinctive poetic voice of contemporary Britain.

Simon Armitage is arguably the leading British poet of the past twenty years. His knowledge...

Everyman's England

by Victor Canning

Recollected observations of England between World War I and II In this series of pen–portraits of England, commissioned by the Daily Mail in the 1930s, the pattern and color of the "great fabric of English...

To Ireland, I

by Paul Muldoon

The four pieces that make up this work are taken from Muldoon’s Oxford Clarendon Lectures of 1998. Together, they take the form of an A-Z, or abecedary of Irish literature, in which his imagination forges...