Product Description: This book explores Virginia Woolf's engagement with the professions in her life and writing. Woolf underscored the significance of the professions to society, such as the opportunity they provided for a decent income and the usefulness of professional accreditation...read more

Product Description: The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. LewisThe First World War laid waste to a continent and permanently altered the political and religious landscape of the West...read more

Tex and Molly, two aging hippies, die suddenly, granting them an audience with various long-forgotten ancient deities and woodland spirits and giving them an opportunity to reinvent their own realities and save the Great North Woods from corporate mutation. Reprint. LJ.

Product Description: Social dance was ubiquitous in interwar Britain. The social mingling and expression made possible through non-theatrical participatory dancing in couples and groups inspired heated commentary, both vociferous and subtle. By drawing attention to the ways social dance accrued meaning in interwar Britain, Rishona Zimring redefines and brings needed attention to a phenomenon that has been overshadowed by other developments in the history of dance...read more

Most studies of the interwar years have focussed upon literary elites, rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In "Forever England" Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness in the period, or understand the changes within literary culture, unless we recognzse the extent to which the female population represented the nation between the wars. From the traumatic aftermath of the First World War, "Forever England" traces the making of a conservative national temperament which could be defensive and protective, yet modernizing in outlook. In a series of literary analyses, the author suggests some of the tones and accents of this new version of Englishness; in particular she looks at new kinds of readership and fiction, at the historical and emotional significance of the "whodunit", the burgeoning of historical romance, and the creation of a middlebrow culture in the period. "Forever England" aims to evoke a powerful sense of period and of the pleasures of reading, providing an intimate picture of interwar life from inside the English middle classes. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in modern literature, gender studies, cultural studies and cultural history.

Product Description: This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated...read more

During the past century, artists have been preoccupied with the search for meaning in a fragmented world. In this book Victor L. Cahn suggests that the plays of Harold Pinter dramatize how such a search leads characters to try to establish security through control of territory and people. The resulting conflict often manifests itself in a gender battle, in which men dominate the physical arena and women the emotional. The innate tension between the sexes is both comic and unnerving, but also reflects humanity's eternal quest for meaning and identity.

Product Description: "A fresh and illuminating study of the Fabian Society's most famous and effective spokesman."--A. M. Gibbs, Macquarie University, Sydney"Carpenter expertly shows how the largely self-effacing, communitarian Fabians, rather plodding in their research and other methods of reform, found themselves rather uncomfortably joining forces with one of the most remarkable individualists of their day, whose unusual command of the language and often startling use of it on the speaker's platform and the stage persuaded more effectively than any of the less sparkling and less captivating methods of the others...read more

Product Description: Hanif Kureishi is one of the most controversial and important contemporary British writers. This book provides students with an introduction to his work that places his fiction in historical context and explores his relevance to contemporary culture and literary theory...read more

Product Description: Hanif Kureishi is one of the most exciting and controversial British writers who has produced significant work in a range of forms: plays, essays, novels, short stories and film. This Guide introduces and sets in context the key debates about his work, and discusses his writing in relation to such issues as gender, postcolonial theory and British identity today...read more

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This comprehensive critical study of Hanif Kureishi details the writer's career to date. Kureishi has explored a number of key social and cultural issues of recent years, including the legacies of colonialism, the paradoxes of multi-culturalism, changing conceptions of class, gender and sexuality, globalization, and relations between popular culture and the canon. Bart Moore-Gilbert's authoritative text places Kureishi's writing in its historical, social, cultural, and critical contexts, and provides detailed readings of his major works.

Product Description: Owen Barfield (1898-1997), philosopher, historian, and literary theoretician, is well known for his friendship with C. S. Lewis. What is virtually unknown is that he was also admired and promoted by T.S. Eliot, who in the 1920s became his publisher at Faber and Faber...read more

Drawing on the collected works of the visionary writer, as well as interviews with family and friends and unpublished materials in the Orwell Archive, the author paints a vivid portrait of the writer who penned, 1984 and other modern classics. Reprint.

The life and accomplishments of English novelist Henry Green are explored in detail, with particular emphasis on his many friendships with literary personalities and on his original and influential novels, including Blindness, Living, Party Going, and Loving. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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