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Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries.

Dennis Low's reevaluation of the Lake Poets as mentors begins with the controversial premise that Robert Southey was one of the nineteenthcentury's greatest champions of women's writing. Together with Wordsworth and Coleridge,

Pericles: Critical Essays brings together the most essential critical essays and theatrical reviews of Shakespeare's play from the late 17th century to the present, providing a representative gathering of critical opinion of

Working Subjects In Early Modern English Drama (Hardcover New Ed)

This book was written to venture beyond interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and always

Larkin's poems are often regarded as falling somewhere between the traditional "plain" and the more contemporary "postmodern" categories. This study undertakes a comprehensive linguistic and historical study of the plain style tradition

A study of the 19th-century French poet, Tristan Corbiere. Using textual readings from "Les Amours Jaunes", the only collection published in Corbiere's lifetime, it examines his self-contradictory style. Corbiere's use of irony

Series Information:Studies in Major Literary Authors: Outstanding Dissertations

Renowned Hopkins expert Joseph J. Feeney offers a fresh take on Gerard Manley Hopkins that begins the next phase in Hopkins studies. In both his poetry and prose Feeney discovers a distinctive