This volume explores the relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it. Mainstream poets like Paul Muldoon, James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy multiply voices and so draw on resources from the novel – Bakhtin’s concept of the dialogic is therefore used to explain their techniques.
This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literature and France’s evolving power structures from the Middle Ages through to the present day. It shows the political connections between the elite literature of France and other aspects of its culture, from racism, misogyny, tolerance and liberal reform to song, street performance, advertising and cinema. The nation’s literature contributed to these and was shaped by them.
Bookish Histories presents a new 'bookish' approach to the literary history of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain. Concentrating on overlooked dimensions of literary practice and production during the period when printed matter became incorporated into everyday life, the essays in the volume bring together book history, cultural history, and literary studies to expand our understanding of books in modernity.
When John Russell's by-line first appeared in 1941, he was twenty-two years old and setting forth on a journey that has never ended. His travels have taken him into the worlds of literature, art, theater, dance, and music, about which he has recorded his observations and opinions with astuteness, dexterity, and a spirit all his own. His extraordinary range of interests, his knowledge, and his inimitable style make him today one of our masters of the essay form. Reading Russell is a selection of fifty-three essays, culled from hundreds of articles and reviews.
English Romantic Writers and the West Country is a genuinely groundbreaking study of Romanticism in relation to the landscape, literature and history of England's West Country. Appearing at a moment when devolution has energised creativity and criticism in Scotland and Wales the book is timely, its claims urgent.
