"Poised on the brink of modernism and the twentieth century, the Victorian era was the most productive period of poetry there has ever been, in any language. This book is the definitive guide to the range of Victorian poets and poems, from the famous to the less well known. Approaching the poets and[...]
Examines the spread of literary theory from the 1960s, when it was considered highly contentious, when theoretical approaches are taken for granted across a range of disciplines. This title argues that theory has made texts secondary to questions of ideology, oppressions and resistance.[...]