What did the Victorians think of Shakespeare? The twelve essays gathered here offer some answers,...
What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from...
Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. Jam...
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The great poet of the city. He was created by...
'Shakespeare invented the human as we continue to know it' Harold BloomSet in a city torn apart b...
'This, of the history plays, is The Tragedy ... the most lyrical Shakespeare ever wrote' Simon Sc...
'an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence'Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and c...
`You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Ne...
'There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.'The poet Aspern, long since dea...
'She will do as I have bidden her.'Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminen...
Adrian Poole examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consc...
In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and endur...