Ann Gaylin

King Edward VII Professor and President of Clare Hall Gillian Beer

Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

Gillian Beer

In this elegantly written collection Gillian Beer considers the difficulty of reading the past in essays on Thomas Carlyle, Philip Sidney, Samuel Richardson and Virginia Woolf.

Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney

Arguing with the Past

New edition of highly acclaimed book examining Darwin's work in a literary/cultural context.

Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Darwin's Plots

Ian Haywood

Haywood Ian

Print, Politics and the People, 1790-1860

The Revolution in Popular Literature

First published in 1970, this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time, including its interaction with other forms of literature such as gothic novels, realism and science fiction. It explores a myriad of writers including Chaucer, Sidney, Tennyson, Shelley, Meredith and Keats and analyses key texts such as Don Quixote by Cervantes and Kubla Khan by Coleridge. This book will be of interest to those studying Romantic literature.

The Romance

Matt Cook

"London and the Culture of Homosexuality explores the relationship between London and male homosexuality from the criminalisation of all 'acts of gross indecency' between men in 1885 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 - years marked by an intensification in concern about male-male relationships and also by the emergence of an embryonic homosexual rights movement. Taking his cue from literary and lesbian and gay scholars, urban historians and cultural geographers, Matt Cook combines discussion of London's homosexual subculture with a detailed examination of its representation in the press, in science and in literature. The conjunction of approaches used in this study provides fresh insights into the development of ideas about the modern homosexual and into the many different ways of comprehending and taking part in London's culture of homosexuality."--Jacket.

London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914

The Victorian Supernatural

Andrew Elfenbein

"This is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Bronte, Tennyson, Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde. Rather than treating influence in terms of source study or of intersubjective struggle, it demonstrates how institutions of cultural production mediate the access that later writers have to earlier ones."--BOOK JACKET.

King Edward VII Professor and President of Clare Hall Gillian Beer

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