Arnold Hauser shows that the social organisation of artistic production before the late
fifteenth century is very much along communal lines and based in guild workshops. In the …

Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David
Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective-he was already the author of three successful …

This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her
confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to …

First published in 1979, Irish Identity and the Literary Revival, through the works of WB
Yeats, James Joyce, JM Synge, and Sean O'Casey, documents the complex spectrum of …

Joseph Conrad has generally been regarded as a novelist with" dual" Polish and English
national affinities. This study argues for a triple identity by introducing the French face of …

Increasingly Aphra Behn—the first woman professional writer—is also regarded as one of
the most important writers of the 17th century. The Rover, her most famous and most …

El presente libro contiene una revisión general de los estudios y teorías en Socilogía de la
Cultura. Planteando un debate sobre las aproximaciones sociológicas, históricas, literarias …

THIS BOOK BEGAN as a doctoral dissertation written during my tenure as a Rhodes Scholar
at Oxford University and evolved into its current form during my first years of teaching at the …

Jane Austen is one of England's most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle
observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century …

I should like to thank Professors Allan Hollingsworth, Paul Zietlow, Peter Casagrande and
the late JO Bailey for their careful reading and useful suggestions during the development of …