Product Description: A Hundred Years of Fiction is the first book to explore and analyse the Anglophone fiction of Wales in the twentieth century. Stephen Knight looks at writers who deal with Welsh life and issues, ranging from Allen Raine to Christopher Meredith, and asks how they relate to the determining forces of their period and contexts, from the economy and politics to concepts of Welsh identity and the pressures of a colonial situation...read more

Product Description: Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre evolved, explores major authors and movements, and argu (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

One of the world's foremost authorities on the only mythical person in the Dictionary of National Biography delves deeply into the Robin Hood story, probing ballads, epitaphs on old gravestones, and Disney films in search of the man behind the legend. (Mythology & Folklore) (view table of contents)

Product Description: The legends of Robin Hood are very familiar, but scholarship and criticism dealing with the long and varied tradition of the famous outlaw is as elusive as the identity of Robin himself, and is scattered in a wide range of sources, many difficult of access...read more

Product Description: Now, for the first time, Australian crime fiction's lurid and elusive past is exposed. Over nearly two hundred years, hundreds of authors and thousands of stories have created a unique national crime fiction. No other country's writers are so likely to sympathise with the criminals, or find the police a thoroughly threatening presence...read more

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Product Description: This text details and analyzes the phenomenon of Robin Hood, his resistance to authority and how successive ages have interpreted him. The author suggests that in the late Middle Ages, Robin Hood was seen simply as an opponent of centralized law, whilst the Elizabethans recruited him to oppose a corrupt church...read more

Product Description: Chaucer has long been the subject of critical approaches which hold the individual to be the key to understanding, linking tales and tellers, stories and character, Chaucer and 'England'. In this book Stephen Knight approaches the power and authority of Chaucer's historical imagination with a far greater emphasis on the role of culture, and rereads Chaucer in the light of both the concerns of critical theory, and medieval systems of public and community identity...read more