In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters and in his novels. At the end…

This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines its appeal and its significance, and finds…

Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is the magnificent writer whom Nietzsche called ‘my favourite poet’. His writings and poetry have been formative throughout the twentieth century, and as influential as those of Hegel…

This book presents an interesting approach to Dante’s Divine Comedy, drawing on medieval theories of reading and understanding a text, and comparing them with modern critical theories of hermeneutics and…

Jeremy Tambling offers students a concise history and critical commentary on ‘allegory’ from its prominence in Medieval and Renaissance literature through to the Romantic era and up to the present…

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) in the nineteenth century backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty, and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters, and in his novels. At the…