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The chronicle history of Henry the fift
Holderness, G.; Loughrey, B. (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994)This text is one piece of a highly-discussed and debated new series that highlighted fundamental questions about the authenticity of Shakespeare's texts as moderns readers have come to know them. Making an extreme departure ... -
Cleaning house: the courtly and the popular in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor’
Holderness, G. (2010)This paper explores the controversy as to whether The Merry Wives of Windsor is a celebration of royal and aristocratic power and of an imagined national community, or a suburban comedy whose viewpoint is that of the ... -
A Collection of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Critical Writings on Daniel Defoe
Pritchard, Penny (2010)This collection of critical writing on Daniel Defoe comprises part of a research project undertaken in 2001 and 2002 during a period of intercalated leave from the early stages of my doctoral thesis. The primary purpose ... -
Contemporary British and Irish Fiction : Introduction Through Interviews
Wheeler, Patricia; Monteith, Sharon; Newman, Jenny (Hodder Arnold, 2004) -
Contemporary Werewolves
George, Samantha; Franck, Kaja (Edinburgh University Press, 2019-07-01) -
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
Hughes, Rowland (Chadwyck-Healey, 2001) -
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 : American novelist
Hughes, Rowland (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004) -
Criticism and Creativity
Holderness, G. (Sussex Academic Press, 2011) -
David Hare : Writers and Their Work
Ridgman, Jeremy (Northcote House, 2015) -
The Deerslayer; or, The First Warpath, 1841 : Novel by James Fenimore Cooper
Hughes, Rowland (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004) -
The Detective Story: Order from Chaos
Maunder, Andrew (Cambridge University Press, 2016-11-20) -
Dialogue and Didacticism: Defoe's Conduct and Advice Literature, Penny Pritchard
Pritchard, Penny (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2023-12-18)This chapter analyses Daniel Defoe’s extensive corpus of didactic writings, particularly The Family Instructor (1715) and Religious Courtship (1722), which make extensive use of fictional dialogue. The first section surveys ... -
Dickens goes to war : David Copperfield at His Majesty's Theatre, 1914
Maunder, Andrew (2014-07)As a powerful symbol of education, culture, and "Englishness," Dickens had a busy time during the First World War. He was available as a cultural icon whose spirit and authority could be invoked for uses beyond the literary. ... -
Documents of Performance : the Assignments Book of the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton
Norwood, Janice (2014-06)Documentary evidence about the financial terms under which nineteenth-century dramatists produced their work is generally available only in piecemeal records that have survived by happenstance. This volume of agreements ... -
Domesticating Political Feeling, Affect and Memory in Marilynne Robinson's Home
Lloyd, Christopher (Manchester Unviersity Press, 2022-03-29) -
Duty of Care : Crime Drama and the Medical Encounter
Ridgman, Jeremy (2012) -
Editorial
Loughrey, Bryan; Holderness, Graham (Berghahn Journals, 2016-03-01)This issue of Critical Survey inaugurates a new chapter in the history of the journal. Founded in 1962 by Brian Cox and Tony Dyson, the journal formed a complement to its sibling Critical Quarterly, publishing creative as ... -
The Ends of the Earth : Nature, Narrative and Identity in Dystopian Film
Hughes, Rowland (2013-12)This article offers a comparative ecocritical reading of two very different dystopian films: Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1971), and eXistenz (David Cronenberg, 1997). In particular, it interprets these films – which ... -
Enid Blyton : A Literary Life
Maunder, Andrew (Palgrave, 2021-12-08)The rise, fall and resurgence of interest in Enid Blyton and her work represents many of the changes and fluctuations in literary taste and critical approaches that have taken place over the last sixty years. In her lifetime ... -
Entries on children's literature, modernist poetry and contemporary fiction
Tripp, Anna (Cassell, 2007)