Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor...'
In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passion ... 続きを読む
This is the first scholarly edition of Aubrey's Brief Lives since 1898, the first to include the complete text of the three Brief Lives manuscripts (including censored and deleted material, title page ... 続きを読む
The volume begins with George Bernard Shaw's three major cultural writings, all of them published as standalone books during Shaw's lifetime. The earliest of these is The Quintessence of Ibsen ... 続きを読む
Remembered Words is a selection of Alastair Fowler's essays on genre, realism, and the emblem (three interrelated subjects), published over six decades. It offers readers a way to arrive at a sense of ... 続きを読む
A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.'
According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It sh ... 続きを読む
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama, and painting, biographer, political commentator, and polemicist. What uni ... 続きを読む
A new contemporary look for John Gross's celebrated anthology of essays
The largest, most comprehensive anthology of essays in print
Includes both American and British essayists
Up to date - incl ... 続きを読む
A new text which recovers the sketches as they first appeared
Presents a comprehensive and systematic annotation, with a glossary and maps
The edition brings out the social relevance of Dickens ... 続きを読む
Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading, and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussin ... 続きを読む
The Road to Wigan Pier is essential for any reader who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of George Orwell's life, work and legacy.
The introduction looks at the early documentary movemen ... 続きを読む
