'York Notes' offer an approach to English literature that aims to fully reflect student needs. They are filled with summaries, commentaries, exam advice, margin and textual features to offer a wider context to the text and encourage a critical analysis.

Reissue with new jacket.

This anthology explores all the major critical approaches to Dickens of the 1970s-1990s, including psychoanalytic, deconstructive, discourse-analytic, feminist and Marxist, enabling the reader to compare and contrast different treatments of particular Dickens novels.

This collection brings together some of Holmes's earliest cases which appeared in the Strand magazine in 1892 and 1893. Set in London's foggy streets, the docks, cocaine dens and the new suburbs, the cases include: The Speckled Band , The Scandal in Bohemia and The Final Problem .

Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies.

Examines the role of 'legless angels' (George Orwell), 'angry women' and 'good daughters' in Dicken's narratives.

Contains illustrations selected by Charles Dickens himself, by artists including Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz'), George Cruikshank, John Leech, Robert Seymour and George Cattermole.

Long regarded as a backwater of sentiment and an outmoded academic convention, Victorian painting is now enjoyed in its own right. This is a comprehensive survey of one of the most fertile and varied eras in the history of painting.

An original and engaging analysis of the decline of religion in the nineteenth century.

London has been at the centre of English literary life for centuries and the home of many men and women of genius. The city has stimulated and fascinated writers from Chaucer, Dickens and De Quincey, to Orton, Orwell and more recently, Peter Ackroyd. Both a bedside companion and an imaginative travel guide, it leads you through the literary history of each district. Discover Boswell's Fleet ...

Examines the ways in which the cinema has defined, mythified and disseminated British national identity during the 20th century. The text considers chronologically, thematically and by case studies of film, stars and genres, the complexities and process of the evolution of national identity.

A Tour of the Greatest Fictional City. The bestselling novelist and Pulitzer Prize winning columnist takes us on a tour of London, comparing and contrasting the London of literature and the London of the streets - London in fact and fiction.

Roderick Random (1748), Smollett's first novel, is full of the dazzling vitality characteristics of all his work, as well as of his own life. Roderick is the boisterous and unprincipled hero who answers life's many misfortunes with a sledgehammer. Left penniless, he leaves his native Scotland for London and on the way meets Strap, and old schoolfellow. Together they undergo many adventures at the

Shows how the English working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitality.

In this title, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays.

This second volume of Richard Rorty's collected papers pursues the themes of the first volume in the context of discussions of recent European philosophy focusing on the work of Heidegger and Derrida.