This collection of original, cohesive and concise essays charts the vital contextual
backgrounds to Joyce's life and writing. The volume begins with a chronology of Joyce's …

Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his
appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film …

The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. The Irish Writing
London redresses the critical deficit. A range of experts on particular Irish writers reflect on …

Abstract The Realist Stage: Theatrical Verisimilitude in the Nineteenth Century Novel
reconsiders the relationship of theatre and the novel in the nineteenth century. It engages …

Is to Charles it the mere Victorian Dickens? contrarianism novel, After to and, all, read more
Joyce's James specifically, Joyce's book has Ulysses to generally the as novels indebted …

Metropolis and Experience: Defoe, Dickens, Joyce offers a close reading of the major texts
of Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce, in their respective historical contexts and in comparison with …

Louis MacNeice was a consummate poet of the metropolis, and while he wrote some
remarkable poems set in rural locales (especially coastal and archipelagic settings), the …

In composing Finnegans Wake, Joyce owed a great deal to Charles Dickens's Our Mutual
Friend. Having in common the fragmented condition of humans under grinding modernity …

“There is a game of puzzles,”[Dupin] resumed,“which is played upon a map. One party
playing requires another to find a given word–the name of town, river, state or empire–any …

Ford Madox Ford's unscholarly distinction between the “English nuvvle,” that
is,“commercial... solid three-deckers” and the “novel of aloofness,”“rendering the world …