Product Description: Evil, despair, and helplessness are persistent themes in recent young-adult fiction. Yet this bleakness needs not translate into depression and fear for vulnerable adolescents. Westwater reads six young-adult novels through Kristevan theory to find a glimmer of hope amidst our cultural crises...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Smasmodic Career of Sydney Dobell opens up a tantalizing but neglected twenty-year period of British literary history in the mid-Victorian era. Dobell, one of the few poetic theorists of his day, fell victim to a literary hoax that robbed him of his rightful place as an important transition figure between Romantic and Victorian poetry...read more

Product Description: 1984, hardcover edition, Ohio University press, Athens, OH, 250 pages. Vintage illustrations. Details the life and times of 6 Victorian ladies and their marriages and some customs dictated by the times themselves.