Product Description: This critical edition coincides with the broader critical movement towards promoting a better understanding of the development of British literary fiction through women's writing, an understanding that breaks free of the old story of 'canonical writers and grand texts'...read more

Product Description: “The focus of this volume of essays on the literary representation of the aftermaths of wars over time and place is very significant. Although there have been many studies of gender and wartime, and this has expanded into a recognized field of academic study, little attention has been paid to the return to a peacetime landscape...read more

Product Description: Written in 1815, the year of Waterloo, Clan-Albin is an extraordinary Romantic novel which communicates the horrors and tragedies of war. Despite following the adventures of a young soldier from Scotland to Ireland and Spain, strong female voices echo most clearly, as they lament the loss of Highland culture, scorn the emergent southern mercantile class, and despise the glorification of war...read more