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This wide-ranging book looks at the author as a Victorian 'man of letters', and explores his cultural and critical impact, both on the definition of the novel in the 19th century and the subsequent development of the form in the 20th. It examines the full spectrum of Dickens's writing, including his... More

Writing in History explores literature acting in history and history acting in literature. The series aims to write history back into the practice of literary study, urging that to read historically is to catch writing in the act: to watch it happening. Challenging traditional literary history, thes... More

In a literary career spanning over forty years, Wilkie Collins wrote over twenty novels, several plays, and numerous short stories. However, he is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel The Woman in White. Irregular liasons, the chaotic state of the marriage laws, social and psycholo... More

With The Doctor's Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon rewrote Flaubert's Madame Bovary, exploring the heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life. A woman with a secret, adultery, death, and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the elements which combine ... More

The astounding true story of the only woman on Georgia's death row--Kelly Gissendaner, who convinced her lover to murder her husband, a Gulf War veteran, in cold blood. Original.... More