This book discusses how an internationally renowned ballet company sustained itself without financial support for years because of the energy and manipulations of its charismatic founder, Serge Diaghilev, while also…

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century - whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this…

This is the first volume to summarize and analyze the multiple contexts of Pound’s work, drawing on new archival, textual and theoretical studies. It situates Pound in the social and…

In this collection of essays, a group of political scientists, literary critics, social historians and writers reassess Nineteen Eighty-Four and other parts of Orwell’s oeuvre. They discuss the difficult question…

Includes thirty entries exploring the work of such Victorian novelists as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Charles Kingsley.

Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion is an anthology featuring leading critical voices, including such figures as Nancy Henry, Julian Wolfreys, Ira Nadel, Joseph Wiesenfarth, and William Baker, among…