This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers. To

In this tale of two writers, Nell Stevens interweaves her own life as a twenty-something graduate student with that of the English author, Elizabeth Gaskell. Al

The second volume in the Reading and Studying Literature series, co-published with the Open University, introduces students to European romanticism and Victoria

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