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Adrian Kempton
Islands have always attracted travellers, writers and dreamers. This book investigates exactly what lies behind the island’s powerful appeal to the English literary imagination, discussing classics such as Utopia, The…
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This study examines the different ways in which novelists have incorporated poetry into the fabric of their fictions. It works against literary compartmentalization by revealing how poetry can enhance prose…
This study analyses the manner in which poets from the nineteenth century to the present day have adopted novelistic genres and techniques and adapted these to the prosodic requirements of…
Epistolary fiction was in full flower during the period from 1652 to 1802, including the masterworks of Richardson and Laclos. This study traces the development of the art of letter-writing…
