Books in the Essays and Studies series in order

Essays on Shelley's achievements and distinctive qualities as a writer covering the whole range of his work.

The problems of translating literature explored through both theoretical approaches and practical case studies.

Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards.

New approaches to women writers and attitudes to women in the Romantic period, principally focused on North America.

Essays illustrating the range and diversity of post-1970 British women writers.

Essays employing close scrutiny of texts to clarify gender issues in feminist literary criticism.

Articles on the historical, social and political realities of postcolonialism as expressed in contemporary writing.

Specially commissioned essays offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus rediscovered writers.

From Horace Walpole to Angela Carter and the X-Files, new and familiar texts are reassessed, and common readings of Gothic themes and critical approaches to the genre are interrogated.

Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.

Slavery as depicted in literature and culture is examined in this wide-ranging collection.

Essays discussing the concept of globalisation as present in works of art and literature.

Essays on the links between film and fiction, and their mutual influence.