19th century

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Mary Shelley.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Maria Edgeworth.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Elizabeth Gaskell.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Christina Rossetti.

Surveys the writings of British women fiction authors of the 1890s, discussing the ways in which they changed the direction of the novel to more honestly reflect issues such as sexuality, child rearing, education, and religion.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Anne Bronte?.

Presents literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary perspectives. The set, which is "new historicist" in its approach to literary criticism, endorses the notion that not only does history affect literature, but literature itself informs history.

Presents literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary perspectives. The set, which is "new historicist" in its approach to literary criticism, endorses the notion that not only does history affect literature, but literature itself informs history.

Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.