Throughout this text, Valerie Shaw addresses two key questions:'What are the special
satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?'and'How are these satisfactions derived from …

By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways
in which food habits are changing and shows how social and personal identities and …

First published in 1975, this study is concerned with the representation of non-European
people in English popular fiction in the period from 1858-1920. It examines the …

First published in 1945, this volume compares the theoretical panic and practical confusion
of its present time to that of the eighteen-eighties and looks to it for direction and inspiration …

Domestic, the Oxford English Dictionary informs, means “of or pertaining to one's own
country or nation; not foreign, internal, inland,'home.'” But what becomes of this definition …

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1880s, the movement's refractory reception history is an object lesson in how avant-gardes
burst upon the scene, dispense with their posture of antagonism, and get incorporated. My …

In the classic British wedding cake, form triumphantly replaces any consideration of
eatability, let alone of nutrition. Its cutting rather than its eating is the focus of attention …

The purpose of this study is to survey three decades of British philosophical opinion as they
are reflected in the writings of Walter Pater. Pater's influence as the founder in England of an …

My thesis is about the extraordinary author and poet Walter de la Mare. In it, I seek to draw
attention to his singular and mostly neglected talent. The thesis concentrates on an …