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Women's Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley
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ISBN: 1786946319 0746313101 0746311443 Year: 2004 Publisher: Tavistock, Devon Liverpool University Press

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Female writers of the Gothic were hell-raisers in more than one sense: not only did they specialize in evoking scenes of horror, cruelty, and supernaturalism, but in doing so they exploded the literary conventions of the day, and laid claim to realms of the imagination hitherto reserved for men. They were rewarded with popular success, large profits, and even critical adulation. E.J. Clery's acclaimed study tells the strange but true story of women's gothic. She identifies contemporary fascination with the operation of the passions and the example of the great tragic actress Sarah Siddons as enabling factors, and then examines in depth the careers of two pioneers of the genre, Clara Reeve and Sophie Lee, its reigning queen, Ann Radcliffe, and the daring experimentalists Joanna Baillie and Charlotte Dacre. The account culminates with Mary Shelley, whose Frankenstein (1818) has attained mythical status. Students and scholars as well as general readers will find Women's Gothic a stimulating introduction to an important literary mode.

Edith Wharton
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ISBN: 1786942658 0746308981 Year: 2001 Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Professor Beer's study provides an introduction to the whole range of Edith Wharton's work in the novel, short story, novella, travel writing, criticism and autobiography. The opening chapter provides an overview of recent scholarship in Wharton studies including an appraisal of biographical texts, and subsequent chapters treat recurrent themes and ideas in her fiction and non-fiction, and the American and European context of her work. The major novels, as well as those less well-known, are discussed as are: contemporary reception of her work, American responses to her expatriation, her friendships with the leading artists of her day, and the influence of the First World War on her work.

Charles Dickens
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ISBN: 1786942534 0746308019 Year: 2001 Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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This study discusses every phase of Dickens' development within his fiction, while particular attention is paid to those writings which fall into the category of first person narrative. It is through the use of the first person in novels, letters and travel writings that Dickens reveals a good deal, not only about his own identity, but also about the construction of Victorian subjectivity in general. The overriding focus of the analysis in this book is a literary one, although it includes a series of reflections on aspects of Victorian society and culture: prisons, schools, money, poverty, fallen women, orphans, detectives and The Great Exhibition.

Harold Pinter
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ISBN: 1786946726 0746307063 0746309406 Year: 2001 Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Harold Pinter is one of the most significant and widely influential living British playwrights. From his early fame as the controversial author of disconcerting, unconventional dramas in the 1960s to the sparse, provocative plays he has offered steadily through the 1980s and 1990s, he has fascinated audiences and critics alike. His work forms a cornerstone of the dramatic literature of the contemporary British stage and has been integrated into the repertories of theatres world-wide. This book offers a critical examination of his dramatic writing over four decades, from The Room (1957) to Celebration (2000), emphasising the worth of the plays as pieces written for performance, investigating their status as dramatic (as opposed to literary) texts.

Ivor Gurney
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ISBN: 1786946793 0746308876 Year: 2001 Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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This is the first full length study of one of the most important English poets of the twentieth century.

Richard III
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ISBN: 0746309163 1786945932 0746313187 Year: 2005 Publisher: Tavistock Liverpool University Press

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Richard III has the status of a monster, in British culture, and the continuous popularity of Shakespeare's play has done much to foster this. Deformity and distortion operate through this myth on many levels. This study is an essay in five "distortions", tracking the way the play manipulates and explores fundamental human concerns; the body, history, theatre, childhood and family and the mirrors and shadows of individual identity and self-knowledge.

C.S. Lewis
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ISBN: 0746309015 1786942488 Year: 1998 Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Laurence Sterne
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ISBN: 0582010527 074630837X 1786946491 1837647216 Year: 2001 Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Middleton and his Collaborators
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ISBN: 1786946602 0746312687 0746310803 Year: 2008 Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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A fresh approach to Thomas Middleton's career that focuses attention on his relations with Dekker, Shakespeare, and Rowley.

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