Product Description: This essay collection, bringing together British, European and North American literary critics and cultural historians with diverse specialities and interests, demonstrates the range of contemporary perspectives through which Gissing's fiction can viwed...read more

Product Description: More than 130 years from Matthew Arnold’s pronouncement that human beings ‘must be compelled to relish the sublime’, education in the humanities still relies on the ideal of culture as the means of intellectual development. In this distinctive and original work, Martin Ryle and Kate Soper explore the growing tensions and contradictions between this and the contemporary world of work, pleasure, and consumption...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Suggests twenty-two routes through each region of Ireland, describes the scenery along each path, and offers advice on planning a bicycle trip