Product Description: This study examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel. Whereas earlier assessments have focused on Lessing's relationship with feminism and the impact of her 1962 novel, The Golden Notebook, this book argues that Lessing's writing was formed by her experiences of the colonial encounter; it makes use of postcolonial theory and criticism to examine Lessing's continued interest in ideas of nation, empire, gender and race and the connections between them...read more

Product Description: Bernie Ecclestone is best-known as the architect and figurehead of modern Formula One, but he has been a constant and often controversial presence in both Formula One and British public life since the 1970s. In this exhaustive and insightful biography, Susan Watkins analyses in detail his rise to prominence, from his early entrepreneurial exploits as a schoolboy to his position today as a peerless businessman and multi-billionaire...read more

Traces the iconic British monarch's self-transformation as a part of her effort to capture the hearts of her people, citing the threats to her rule that motivated her choices, her careful construction of the royal image, and her role in shaping court life and architecture. Reprint.

Product Description: Riven by world wars and cold wars, atrocities and genocides, the twentieth-century was also one of sexual, cultural and ideological revolutions, each inscribed across the fictions it produced. This fascinating new volume re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the public sphere...read more

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Product Description: This provocative book discusses two of the most significant influences on writing and thinking in the 20th century: women novelists and feminist theory. It demonstrates, in an accessible but imaginative manner, ways of reading women's novels alongside work by feminist theorists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the private life and romantic intrigues of Elizabeth I, and describes the ways in which the Queen captured the loyalty and affection of her subjects (view table of contents)

Featuring more than 150 black-and-white photographs, a commemoration of the turbulent year of 1968 brings vividly to life the events that convulsed the world, from the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the end of the Prague Spring. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Examines the styles and customs of Jane Austen's England, discussing the elegance and refinement of the period (view table of contents)

Product Description: This text deals with issues relevant to studying literature; reading poems; plays and prose fiction; and approaching literary theory and criticism. It aims to bridge a gap between skills-based publications and more explicitly theoretical studies.

Product Description: The world of novelist Jane Austen was a place of unsurpassed elegance, beauty, and refinement. This book documents Jane Austen's world: Stoneleigh Abbey, quaint country retreats and stylish town houses. A Buyer's Directory, for those who want to recreate this era in their own homes is included...read more