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142 results in Writers and their Work

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Pre-Raphaelitism: Poetry and Painting
  • Lindsay Smith
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 August 2013
  • The book offers a major re-assessment of the interrelationship of poem to painting, verbal to visual, in an aesthetic of Pre-Raphaelitism.

George Eliot

Martin Amis
  • Nick Bentley
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 December 2010
  • Nick Bentley offers a critical analysis to the main themes and literary techniques of Martin Amis, a leading literary figure who has inspired a generation of writers with his distinctive literary style.

The Georgian Poets
  • Abercrombie, Brooke, Drinkwater, Lascelles, Thomas
  • Rennie Parker
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    02 January 1999
  • A critical re-evaluation of the poetry of Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, Wilfrid Gibson and Edward Thomas.

Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s
  • Richard Danson Brown
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 February 2009
  • This study investigates Louis MacNeice in two major central strands. Firstly, it explores MacNeice's ambiguous positioning as an Irish poet. As the Ulster-born son of a Home Rule supporting Protestant bishop, MacNeice straddles rival cultural and ideological territories without ever fully committing to either. A sense of dislocation and homelessness underwrites MacNeice's poetry which makes it resistant to nationalistic appropriation and encourages his readers to see him more as an international poet. Secondly, this study presents MacNeice as a critically self-conscious writer; his readiness to explain his work helps to account for his influence on later poets. By virtue of the clarity of his explanations of his own procedures, MacNeice offered his successors workable templates of how his poetry might be written.

Jack London
  • Kenneth K. Brandt
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    31 May 2018
  • Recounting his 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush experience Jack London stated: "It was in the Klondike I found myself. There nobody talks. Everybody thinks. There you get your perspective. I got mine." This study explores how London's Northland odyssey - along with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a hardscrabble youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, and an acute craving for social justice - launched the literary career of one of America's most dynamic 20th-century writers. The major Northland works - including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and "To Build a Fire" - are considered in connection with the motifs of literary Naturalism, as well as in relation to complicated issues involving imperialism, race, and gender. London's key subjects—the frontier, the struggle for survival, and economic mobility—are examined in conjunction with how he developed the underlying themes of his work to engage and challenge the social, political, and philosophical revolutions of his era that were initiated by Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and others.

George Herbert

The Gawain Poet
  • J. A. Burrow
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    11 January 2000
  • This book presents a comprehensive account of what is known about the four poems commonly ascribed to the Gawain poet.

The Nineteenth Century Sensation Novel
  • Lynn Pykett
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 November 2011
  • This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context.

Caroline Drama
  • The Plays of Massinger, Ford, Shirley, Brome
  • Julie Sanders
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 1999
  • An introduction to the drama of the Caroline period, which brings a neglected era of literature into clear focus.

Harold Pinter
  • Mark Batty
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 August 2001
  • Harold Pinter is one of the most significant and widely influential living British playwrights. From his early fame as the controversial author of disconcerting, unconventional dramas in the 1960s to the sparse, provocative plays he has offered steadily through the 1980s and 1990s, he has fascinated audiences and critics alike. His work forms a cornerstone of the dramatic literature of the contemporary British stage and has been integrated into the repertories of theatres world-wide. This book offers a critical examination of his dramatic writing over four decades, from The Room (1957) to Celebration (2000), emphasising the worth of the plays as pieces written for performance, investigating their status as dramatic (as opposed to literary) texts.

Graham Swift
  • Peter Widdowson
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    30 June 2010
  • Graham Swift is among the foremost contemporary British writers, having published seven highly acclaimed novels which are widely read by students and general public alike. Waterland has become a modern classic, and Last Orders won the Booker prize for fiction in 2006. This study covers all Swift's novels to The Light of Day: it offers a close reading of each of the novels, exploring the innovative formal strategies and identifying such recurrent themes as the presence of the past in the present, the blurring of distinctions between 'history' and 'story', fact and fiction, and the possibilities of redemption in a contemporary social and emotional wasteland. For the most part set in an urban, middle-class, claustrophobic and loveless present, and focused on usually fraught relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, these recognisably postmodern novels are seen here as symptomatic of contemporary Britain: a world where, in the shadow of the nuclear holocaust, we approach 'the End of History', and only 'telling stories' seems to offer solace.

Caryl Phillips
  • Helen Thomas
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 January 2004
  • Helen Thomas examines the ways in which Caryl Phillips responds both creatively and critically to the psychological effects of cultural dispersal, racism and economic exploitation in the black Atlantic. Highlighting the continuing negotiations between Britain and its previous colonies, this study demonstrates the ways in which Phillips's fictional and non-fictional work reformulates contemporary and historical traumatic crises and corresponding agents of survival. Phillips's work is discussed not only in terms of critical emphasis upon past events, but also in terms of its vision of a more expansive dimension of collective experience.

Graham Greene
  • Peter Mudford
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 March 1996
  • Graham Greene is among the major creative talents of our time. This study concentrates on his achievements as a novelist whose work spanned more than sixty years, and was translated into forty languages. As skilful in writing with humour as with seriousness, he combined the gifts of a superb story-teller with the power to analyse the political ills and human dilemmas of an age of anxiety. As a writer who 'happened to be a Catholic', he also reflected the problem of faith and belief in a time of persistent violence. This study describes his vision of the twentieth century, and his evolving dedication to his craft as a writer of fiction.

C.S. Lewis

Byron
  • J. Drummond Bone
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 December 2000
  • After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own personality. Now he is read and studied both for his complex politics and as a forerunner of many of the ideas and techniques more usually associated with post-modernism. Bone tackles the critical problems both of the populism of much of Byron's early work, and conversely of the sophisticated comedy of Beppo, Don Juan and The Vision of Judgement. He argues that for all its contradictoriness Byron's poetic mind develops organically, and that the scintillating technique of the late works grow out of the profoundly modern world-view, relativistic and secular, which had developed through his early years. Byron's writing are seen as a vital area for post-ideological and new found criticism.

Henrik Ibsen
  • Sally Ledger
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 September 2008
  • This study combines close readings of ten of Ibsen's best-known plays, with a more general consideration of the cultural, historical and intellectual contexts out of which they grew.

James Baldwin

The Imagist Poets

Ivor Gurney
  • John Lucas
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    08 January 2001
  • This is the first full length study of one of the most important English poets of the twentieth century.

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