Books by Philip Edwards

Teething Trouble is a novel aimed at 9-11 years old children by Philip Edwards.

This is an original investigation of the early uses of the terms 'pilgrim' and 'pilgrimage' in life and literature. Edwards explores the pilgrimage theme in a number of major writers in the long period of declining faith after the Reformation, including Shakespeare, Conrad, Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Yeats, and Heaney.

By a selective study of certain of the comedies, tragedies and sonnets, this book views Shakespeare's work as a whole and explains why his art developed as it did. It suggests that we are watching the progress of a mind as acutely conscious as anyone today of the disorder and lack of meaning in the world.

This imprint is established to publish in paperback for an individual readership the Press's most outstanding original monographs. These are titles which would normally appear in specialist hardback editions only, but whose quality and general academic importance justify their special promotion in this prestige imprint.

The first study of a century of sea-going narratives, which puts the accounts of Captain Cook and Captain Bligh in the context of narratives of convicts, passengers, and victims of the press-gang. It is a book about writing rather than explorations which reveals narratives of great energy and vitality.

1460-1660 was a dramatic and crucially formative period in the emergence of the modern English state, language and identity. The Making of the Modern English State traces the changes in politics and religion over the two hundred years that helped to form a new English identity.