A collection of essays about the Victorian period, in which each essay seeks to draw connections with other disciplines, fields, periods, methodologies or authors.

Starting from a critical inquiry into specialised issues in editing, this work unfolds an argument for a general revaluation of the grounds of literary study as a whole. It argues…

This collection of studies explores different types of historical literary studies, and develops a socio-historical criticism for literary works. While focusing on 19th-century works, its arguments are applicable to literary…

This is volume four of the landmark edition of Byron’s poetry. Indispensable for Byron scholars, it represents the most comprehensive editing of his poetry ever undertaken.

In this representative selection, the Middle English miracles of the Virgin are made accessible to students with extensive marginal glosses, an informative introduction, and contextual materials including relevant biblical passages…

A quintessential depiction of the Byronic hero, Byron’s poetic drama Manfred centres on the interior sufferings of its psychologically tortured title character, who is haunted by the death of his…